First, although most lawmakers in both parties know it would be daffy to dice with default, the same people also wanted to avoid a shutdown.
"NOTHING is funnier than unhappiness," says Nell, an immobile, daffy dustbin-dweller, in Samuel Beckett's play "Endgame".
Mr Obama's urbanity seems a more significant political influence than his race: George W Bush's "my way or the highway" attitude is archetypically Texan, just as Reagan's somewhat daffy optimism smacks of California.
Mr Gore's problem was daffy Florida balloting and Supreme Court meddling.
He leads a reasonably stable life working as a dock foreman, fending off the counterculture, and supporting his daffy but principled stay-at-home wife, Edith (played by Jean Stapleton), and his modern but docile daughter, Gloria (played by Sally Struthers).
Instead, the skier performs such jumps as the daffy (with one ski extended forward, the other backward) or the spread eagle.
Instead, the skier performs such jumps as the daffy (one ski extended forward, the other backward) or the spread eagle.
Mrs Merkel might dredge up some daffy objection to the case made by the de facto president of the Labour's Trident Fan Club.
It's not all ballads – they do stripped down solo material, as well as covers of Woody Guthrie's 'Pastures of Plenty', Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons Heartsts on Fire', and even a daffy but adorable, laughter-filled version of Jethro Tull's 'Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day'.
It was followed in quick succession by Doidinho (1933; "Daffy Boy"), Bangüê (1934; "Old Plantation"), O moleque Ricardo (1935; "Black Boy Richard"), and Usina (1936; "The Sugar Refinery").
"I haven't seen so many people, Artie, so excited since the première of 'Cleopatra'!" Artie's downstairs neighbor and inamorata, Bunny Flingus (the droll and daffy Jennifer Jason Leigh), says, as she tries to roust her man out of his sleeping bag on the sofa.
