Word: outlandish
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...fiction novels such as “Dance for the Ivory Madonna,” writes in an e-mail that he is fond of the endless mornings sitting in Scott’s kitchen brainstorming ideas for science-fiction stories. “We would start with an outlandish idea—such as, what if there were an alien race whose life cycle literally followed Freudian psychology?—and beat it back and forth in a sort of verbal volleyball, going off on tangents, adding new ideas and different points of view, ranging over everything from...
...fuzz of their often-bootleg audio equipment, however, will appreciate the band’s witty homage to the stellar series. Playing at 4 p.m. on Saturday in Loker Commons will represent a whole new world for these Quincy Cage stalwarts, but, with their legion of faithful knights and outlandish stage antics, So Long Princess is more than up to the challenge. All in all, the student-band lineup for Arts First showcases some of Harvard’s best and brightest. For the sonically gluttonous looking for more than the groups featured above, Sunday’s Band Fest...
...tread lightly. Speculative money--mainly from hedge funds--has been pouring into the metal, and once something goes wrong, it will pour out just as fast. "We're getting a little nervous," concedes Anton Pil at JP Morgan Private Bank. But forecasts like DiGeorgia's are not all that outlandish. We may be in a modest inflationary cycle, and if you adjust for the past 26 years of inflation, gold should be at $2,150 already. Potentially, there is a lot of ground to make...
...familiar with the book on which the movie is based, recognized the figure onscreen as the albino assassin Silas, a fanatical, murderous member of a bizarre Catholic group called Opus Dei, and couldn't suppress a giggle. She is a member of the actual Opus Dei. "This is so outlandish," she recalls thinking. "I wish we were that interesting...
...owned by the Ying Yang Twins. The video is barely worth mentioning, aside from the quick “Follow the Leader” video homage at the beginning of the third verse. Women love Busta, Busta can rap and drive at the same time, and Busta wears outlandish clothes and has crazy tattoos. I’m not positive, but I do believe that all of these are well-known, well-documented principles of natural law and do not need to be reprised in a badly-lit, unnecessarily-subtitled, run-of-the-mill music video. And the remix artists...