Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...senior year in high school in 1960, she was a walking cartoon. Her dress was outlandish, her behavior outrageous. Even the boys were embarrassed by her gamy language and alcoholic escapades at sleazy bars across the river in Louisiana. Classmates took to calling...
...always flourished best, the Cultural Establishment. The conservatism that once took the form of protecting the established standards of "beauty" in art against the new and unrecognized, the radical invaders, has become a desperate acceptance of the new for newness' sake. It is the attitude that equates the outlandish with the serious...
...article, "The Church and the Homosexual," proposes that the church ordain gay ministers and bless "permanent and faithful" gay unions. But the article likely to cause the most furor is one by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, authors of Lesbian/ Woman. Among other controversial points, they raise an outlandish suggestion: that because lesbians have removed themselves from the "battle of the sexes," they are "the only women capable of loving...
...instance, is Archer entirely stable? We have only his word, after all, for the outlandish things that happen during his investigations. Is it really likely that practically every case a detective works on could hinge on a hideous crime committed a generation before, in the presence of a tiny child, who blocks the memory from his consciousness and thus, grown to adulthood, is a psychological time bomb? Wouldn't it be a good idea for Archer to see a shrink...
...rules will govern throughout the tourney and games are likely to be extremely rough and violent. In contrast to the five-foul limit under NCAA rules, AAU rules allow unlimited fouls and one-minute penalty-box disincentives for outlandish infractions. Instead of two referees on both sides of the pool, AAU requires only one judge...