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1. And this year, in the hilarious Little Miss Sunshine, she is the exhausted mum in a family just bursting with oddballs and neurotics.
2. Fagen‘s songs, populated with doomed idealists, counterculture casualties, desperate lovers, and hapless neurotics, have been likened to mini–novels, and this latest batch introduces a handful of new oddballs to his gallery of beautiful losers.
3. As an editor, I think that aura of equipoise turns out to be very helpful, because you have so many people here who are professional neurotics, always acting out, drama queens, who have one form of craziness or another.
4. The 7ft 2in basketball superstar Shaq O‘Neal trod on my foot in the lift (and yes, of course it still hurts); I passed a small (genuine) office that boasted the title ‘Neurotics Anonymous‘; and this afternoon I ambled down to the Century City shopping mall to buy some books and found Stevie Wonder sitting in the square singing Superstition at a piano.
5. Because, my so called friends, even then I knew that here at the Guardian esteemed fellow commentators would sneer at any suggestion that, for this generation of sickly neurotics, the imposition of fulfilling, reasonably paid factory work might be kinder than a career watching Richard and Judy.