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Let us now consider the curious case of Randle Patrick McMurphy, the grinning, cigarette-dangling, borderline-saintly delinquent at the heart of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s
It was a hot and emotionally unstable weekend in Arlington, Texas; the kind of weekend where the sun cooks your retinas while thunderclouds loiter ominously,
We’ve all been there. Or if we haven’t, we’ve hovered awkwardly near the edge, pretending to examine a bottle of shampoo while someone else’s emotional
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