Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...possibility for a good performance from the start. In various scenes she is a beautiful romantic, a warm mother, an edgy and depressed artist, a lunatic and finally a resident of hell. None of her various incarnations seem remotely connected to another, and in each she is given an outlandish haircut that does her acting for her. When she has the severe, cropped look of Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction, you know that tragedy is imminent. We never know why Robin Williams would risk hell for her, simply because we don't clearly know who, or rather which, incarnation...
...outlandish name did not faze anyone; it just elicited a few chuckles in the publication's office...
Then something strange happened: the crowds at his shows started growing. College kids were showing up again. Fans began making a day of it in the parking lot, competing to see who could wear the most outlandish costume. Buffett's musical sidekick, harmonica-ace Greg ("Fingers") Taylor, saw the change when he rejoined the band after taking a year off to "learn how not to drink." Taylor and Buffett were riding in a limo through a Midwestern parking lot "and all these insane rituals are going on around us. Winnebagos with shark fins on top. People dancing. Buffett turned...
...President couldn't have picked a better city to showcase a China changing at almost breakneck speed: The spectacle of a U.S. president chatting with callers on a radio show in Communist-ruled China about ways of getting Japan's stagnant economy restarted seems almost outlandish. Even more so, perhaps -- the Prez was asked about one of his areas of expertise: fast food. A local leader at the morning roundtable bemoaned the passion for McDonald's and KFC among China's children, wondering if it might lead to problems of obesity...
...guest on such shows as Crossfire and Rivera Live, Klayman calmly and routinely proposes the most outlandish conspiracies. Isn't it possible, he has said, that Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, who died in a plane crash in Croatia two years ago, may actually have been shot to death? The crucial point for Klayman is that Brown died the very week he was supposed to be deposed for a Judicial Watch suit alleging that seats on Commerce Department trade missions were sold to big campaign contributors. "They may have sent him to Bosnia to keep him from being deposed," Klayman suggested...