Word: outlandishing
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...almost fortuitous that the cops ran down the New York threesome. A 39-year-old government informer, George Demmerle, made such an underground name for himself as a radical heavy-"he wore outlandish clothes, threw bottles at the cops, got arrested a number of times," one official says-that Melville actually sought him out to help. On Nov. 12, Melville and Demmerle were arrested as they planted four bombs in Army trucks at an armory at 26th Street and Lexington Avenue. Minutes later, Alpert and Hughey were caught in their apartment...
...actual exploits of Patton in Europe are too outlandish to be fiction. He did indeed liberate 12,000 towns; he did indeed have mules shot when they got in his way. There is no ironist like history; but the film makers will not let hell enough alone. After dodging bullets for three years, Patton was maimed in a peacetime automobile accident. The steel soldier died paralyzed from the neck down. But Patton leaves the general alive, walking across a wide field, wistful and quixotic. A windmill obligingly wheels in the foreground, lest the audience miss the intent...
...chum Orville Sandweiss, now locked into a wife-swapping element of Cleveland society. Willie does not mock bourgeois Orville. He merely describes and wonders how Orville goes on making love to his wife ("I might just as well be sticking it in soapy water," says Orville), Willie finds Orville outlandish and so do we-but it is an outlandishness on the side of the humane rather than the grotesque...
Unfortunately for Columbia, Heard had a point. The man who eventually accepts the job will face excruciating problems on Mormngside Heights. While working outlandish hours, he will have to cope with more possible student disorders, plus the angry local residents whose homes impede the university's needed expansion. He will deal with trustees whose unquestioned talents are too often diverted to their own eminent careers. While some Columbia graduate schools have become untouchable fiefdorns, the high quality of some academic departments (sociology, government, philosophy) has declined. In average faculty salaries, Columbia now ranks a mere 25th among U.S. universities...
...excess and we are trapped in an atmosphere as pretentious as the one being chide. Thankfully, Agnes Varda's style is clear and elegant, perfect for the balance necessary to make Les Creatures work. Her frames are clear and simple and her cutting so clean that the most outlandish of sequences (an indescribable interrupted eating scene) seems logical...