Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout, one theme keeps coming back--the idea that Lennon was constantly risking something by staunchly sticking with even the most unpopular and outlandish convictions. As Jann Wenner writes...
...tragedies, as well as broad comic treatments of such eternal human vagaries as drunkenness and adultery. Immediately accessible on the level of mime, it is nevertheless highly sophisticated, yielding its ultimate secrets- and thus pleasures- to those who have taken the time to study it. Its name once connoted "outlandish" or "eccentric," yet it literally means song-dance-skill. It is Kabuki...
...such problems are small considering the art form's exquisite grace, its awesome dramatic power and delicate beauty. In Kabuki, there is a world of meaning in the sweep of a fan, the cast of an eye or the crook of a finger. What is outlandish about a song-dance-skill like that? -By Michael Walsh
...dying and "the arc of a life." In the real world, both tragedy and joy occur in smaller doses than in Garp's universe. The film, like Irving's novel, occasionally seems somewhat fantastical and distant as a result. But every time a romance or a killing becomes too outlandish. Garp beams, or bellows, or frets, and his fear once again reminds...
Ordinarily neither of these outlandish applications would have raised an eyebrow over at the patronage-happy pension board. Unfortunately for Hynes and Sinnott, however, their cases came to light after the Boston Globe uncovered another suspicious pension request. Robert Toomey Sr., 40, manager of operations for the department of public facilities, claimed that he had suffered a ruptured cervical disc in a car accident while on City business. This left him in "constant pain, unable to do any lifting or bending." His disability request: $30,240 a year. According to the Globe, he had taken out nine separate accident insurance...