Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sellars offers explanations for many of his departures in the scene-by-scene synopsis he has prepared for Orlando's audiences. Though gratuitously academic at times ("In an extraordinary passage in 5/8 time, considered outlandish and daring in the 18th century, Orlando crosses the river Styx...) and occasionally pretentious ("What is man? What is a man?), for the most part, the notes show the puckish sense of fun that characterizes the production at its best. "This will not do," Sellars writes, "and Zoroastro abandons subtlety and launches into his aria, 'Leave Love and Follow Mars: Go Fight!' (The Pentagon, after...
Taking full advantage of the open set, characters pop up everywhere, their movements suitably outlandish. Serban has ensured that there is always some action, always some source of fun. At times the production seems more like a series of auditions for sign language school. Someone is always grimacing or gesturing, crawling or running--mostly broad and loud actions, but occasionally a little softer, a bit more restrained, in a welcome counterpoint to the steady diet of high-pitched gusto...
...home run and reached base five times, but misplaced a fly ball in the sun. A bit of a mystery was the benching of New York Centerfielder Jerry Mumphrey, spotlighted when Substitute Bobby Brown botched a play. (The lineup card was dusted for Steinbrenner's prints.) When this outlandish, delightful, 31-hr., ten-pitcher, 8-7 game was through, there was only one untainted hero: Dodger Jay Johnstone. He slammed a pinch homer in the sixth, took a bow and sat down. The Series was even...
...outlandish, grotesque and sardonic as the world according to John Irving often is, it is also a world filled with compassion, joy and truth...
Martin ignored a subpoena to appear before a grand jury on Aug. 11, and then hatched a more outlandish version of what had happened: a black-masked member of "the Guardian Angels of the Underworld" had carried out the ambush to prevent him from exposing the satanic cult. On Aug. 17, Martin ducked another grand jury appearance-for his own safety, he said...