Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Most outlandish and un-American of all?and disturbing to those who believe that growth in energy use is a necessary element in the improvement of society's well-being?conservation, however limited, is beginning to be a hopeful factor in the nation's energy calculations. To what degree the flammable situation in the Middle East, the world's largest oil- producing region, plays a part remains uncertain. Price is a key factor and it keeps going up. Administration officials are confident that heating-oil supplies are sufficient to tide the nation through the winter, despite the U.S. declaration...
...between the Himalayas (actually the French Alps) and London's Limehouse district, plays the legendary Sax Rohmer villain as a 168-year-old man who steals jewels to crush them into an elixir of life. No, the chefs attire wasn't necessary to cook up such an outlandish plot. It's for the Chinese feast he's preparing for the Tower of London guards, you see, so he can bribe his way into the diamond room...
...Outlandish as it may seem, it is possible that some day Animator Chuck Jones may come to be regarded as the American Buñuel. Like the Spanish master, Jones finds his great subject in obsession, and he understands that finally, all truly memorable comedy results from observing creatures caught helplessly in the grip of irrational, inexplicable passions. Buñuel's obsessives are all sexually motivated; Jones' great creation, Wile E. Coyote, has a loftier theme: the annihilation of that uncannily shrewd nemesis the Road Runner...
Waite, undiscouraged, says that in 1968 he became the second classics student at Harvard to use a computer for Ph.D. thesis research. Now, Waite adds, it is "not outlandish, though still not common" for a Ph.D. candidate in classics to use a computer. There is still resentment though: "I know of humanities departments in which you would not get tenure if you did use computers...
Struck by Lightning (Sept. 19, CBS, 8:30 p.m. E.D.T.) What happens when a young high school teacher (Jeffrey Kramer) inherits an old family inn and dis covers that the handyman is Franken stein's monster? Nothing good. This show, an outlandish mixture of Saturday morning cartoon antics and campy horror movie references, has only one asset: Jack Elam's self-deprecating, sex-starved wheeze bag of a monster. Elam's unruly sea of a face makes the late George ("Gabby") Hayes look like Prince Charles. His comic delivery is in the joyful tradition of vintage vaudeville...