Word: outlandish
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...story shot into the media stratosphere last September, when the Portuguese police named the McCanns "arguidos," or suspects, making the couple the focus of the continuing Portuguese investigation - which at that point was clearly foundering. What followed was a constant flow of often outlandish and anonymous leaks that seem designed to bolster the case against the parents. One claimed the girl was buried at sea; another said the McCanns had participated in wife-swapping orgies. The leaks typically first appeared in Portuguese news outlets before being repeated by the British media. The McCanns countered by successfully suing the Express Newspaper...
...little lost—just like its inhabitants. While Silver’s narrative is not particularly intriguing, her portrayal of life on the outskirts—in a marginalized family in an isolated town—is refreshing. These people and their lives are not so outlandish as to be only conceivable in the pages of fiction. It is not difficult to imagine Ares and Malcolm as two real boys in Southern California; perhaps the novel is best read as a reminder that there are alienated people in alienated places with stories worth hearing—even if that...
...from a researcher’s standpoint, is he took 20 years of complicated psychology and distilled it down into things a layman could really understand,” she says. “His book is so powerful because he has the amazing ability to generate the most outlandish and creative ideas to explain the concept he’s trying to get across...
Only in Italy could Silvio Berlusconi, the country's richest and occasionally most outlandish man, be elected Prime Minister. Three times! Spry and combative as ever, the 71-year-old media mogul on Monday rolled to a clear-cut election victory just two years after Romano Prodi had ousted him from the job by a whisker's margin...
...interesting idea...It’s aimed to titillate.” However, the creators of “The Hard Core” also plan to incorporate veritable economic and sexual facts, providing the viewer with real social analysis. Though the comedy is somewhat outlandish, the creators emphasize that it is an important experiment in Harvard filmmaking. “The Hard Core” will be accompanied by a Harvard course website imitation. “Lecture videos” will be posted, along with a blogspot managed by the actors. Harvard students will also be able...