Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Right and left there are other things happening just as bad--crazy horrible things too goofy and outlandish to cry about and too much true to laugh about--but the fog is getting thick enough I don't have to watch . . . Idiot, you just had a nightmare; things as crazy as a big machine room in the bowels of a dam where people are cut up by robot workers don't exist...
Jack Guy Folk Toys are little constructions of wood, corn cob, and cane which come in little bright boxes, either already assembled or as kits. In the shop, they were stacked up under a couple of large color photos of Jack Guy himself, wearing an outlandish shirt of more colors and materials than Joseph's coat, bibbed over-alls, and an immense sort of Hoss Cartwright style black hat with bead-work band. The hat suggested a renegade Indian trader. Jack Guy's hair is cut rather too neatly for a hill person, but his face is pretty convincingly weathered...
Drivers have gone to outlandish extremes to avoid both belts and buzzers. One Atlanta man unfastens his seat belt, and turns off his hearing aid, as soon as he starts his new Impala. In some garages, mechanics are disconnecting the interlock system at an average...
...women's nature ("Her frailty is her strength, her inferiority is her privilege") and both believe that there are few more exalted jobs than raising a family. But freakish, no. It is the book's remarkable value that it manages to place what is statistically and socially outlandish within the realm of human loyalty and love...
...have an open mind about psychic phenomena [March 4], but let us not stop exploring new ideas and thoughts, even some of the most outlandish ones. If we had stopped in days of old and said majestically, "We know it all." life wouldn't be so much fun. The world would still be flat, the seas beset by monsters, and the moon would still be cheese...