For two weeks after her seizure, Tam had sat in the car during club practices, claiming a lingering
wooziness.
"There was no nausea or
wooziness. I had a clear head and I felt completely normal."
But as I sat in my wheelchair, waiting to fire my arrow again,
wooziness swept over me.
The music has warmth too, the dreamy folksiness of Another Morning, the jaunty The Horseshoe Wreath In Bloom, thescuffed lounge
wooziness of the semi-spoken Mantovani The Mind Reader.
But this feeling of
wooziness happens in waves which come and go.
As I think of Pearce, the
wooziness of the current film is plain to see in his performance.
Yet I recognize that this loose analogy between the soul's ascent to gain knowledge and my
wooziness before a blood transfusion is to a great extent the action of my mind seeking through euphoria to ward off thoughts of death.
It has seve points (1 = active, vital, wide awake; 2 = functioning at a high level, not at peak; 3 = relaxed, not at full alertness, responsive; 4 = a little foggy, let down; 5 = fogginess, slowed down, starting to lose interest; 6 = sleepiness,
wooziness, fighting sleep; 7 = struggling to remain awake).
*I reserve the right to u-turn, David Caterpillar/George Ostrich style, if I'm crippled by the
wooziness following my first long-haul flight.
In between these drawn-out, graphically violent scenes, the pic cuts to key moments from the ruthlessly executed heist, in stylized shots that reflect Fish's pain and
wooziness. The resulting tension is excruciating to the point of diminishing returns, as shots detailing the character's agony are often held too long, and in too-tight closeup.
The President was technically still conscious but in a state of
wooziness and completely oblivious to anything going on around him.
Thus, some of the
wooziness that astronauts experience once they get back down is a natural reaction to physiologic changes that were helpful in space.
Far from aestheticizing violence, these exterior episodes have the impact of events that one doesn't dare to look at too closely but cannot purge from memory; if the movement of bodies and the depth of space seem slightly unreal, they embody all the more effectively the
wooziness of public trauma.
Helmer Tully makes no attempt to reproduce Scott's point of view in any literal sense--there are no slow-mo meltdowns or out-of-focus
wooziness, the handheld camera only occasionally shaking to the addict's jerky rhythms.
But Lukas Haas and Scott Green incarnate bleary
wooziness well, while helmer Harmony Korine has a droll cameo as a fan who rants at Blake about playing Dungeons & Dragons with the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia.
