Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Outlandish Goings-On. The trapped guests broke out a few minutes later and telephoned the management, which quickly summoned police. The officers interviewed victims and members of the hotel staff, and by around 9 a.m. narrowed the possible suspects to Aaron Legrand and Edward Steadley, who had checked into their first-floor room two days before. A policeman dressed as a bellboy went up to their room with the bill, and when one of the pair opened the door part way and asked him to slide it under the door, the officer, backed up by two other armed policemen, broke...
...Darrach. Yet the central figure of this livery book comes through loud, clear and not a little screechy. Though Fischer is a kind of walking Rorschach test open to all manner of interpretations, most of them bad, Darrach grants him his due. As he notes, many of the seemingly outlandish demands Bobby has made over the years have not only been justified but have since been adopted as rules for tournament play. Al though he recently resigned his world title because chess officials rejected additional demands, Fischer has more than made good his own bold promise:"I'm gonna...
...picture Shelley, at least, in the middle of a Socratic dialogue with an obstreperous law professor, standing on his seat and singing La Marseillaise, or histrionically reciting a soliloquy from Shakespeare. Today, however, such romantic elan seems completely incongruous, and, in those rare instances when someone calls up an outlandish dream or invokes an outrageous vision, the individual is dismissed as a utopian or an eccentric...
...isle urge? It goes deeper than the fortress mentality of those who fear assault or long for solitude. While most bankers regard island buyers as psychiatric cases or at least outlandish Thoreauvians, a cool quest for profit is a major motive for many investors who never even set foot on their seagirt dominions. Off Nova Scotia there are so many islands-some of them mere specks on the chart-that they are almost beyond count...
...story's people, all outlandish, pop from the author's head fully jig-sawed. There is old Geraty, a buffalo-like giant addicted to Japanese horseradish, who once ran a Chinese pornographic movie parlor. There is the former Baron Kikuchi, a Japanese who converted to Judaism and became a rabbi. Quin appears as a shadowy cuckold who ran a circus in Shanghai at the war's outset and orchestrated the murder of its entire company during a performance. Maeve Quin, his glad-glanded wife, is an aerialist who made her final somersault into the lights with...