Word: outlandishing
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Born in the Siberian seaport of Vladivostok, but persistent in thinking of himself as a Mongolian gypsy born mysteriously on an island off Japan, he further complicates matters by playing Siamese kings, saturnine Russians, Maya chieftains and other outlandish types. To untangle things-some-the real Yul Brynner, 45, stood up and went to the U.S. embassy in Berne, Switzerland, where he formally renounced the U.S. citizenship he has held since he was naturalized in 1947. He retains Swiss citizenship now, with his wife Doris and daughter Victoria, who do not qualify to become U.S. citizens since they live abroad...
...easy-does-it amiability usually associated with movies made on a shoe string. Producer Stan Margulies and Director Ken Annakin, in lightsome homage to the birth of aviation, have sensibly squandered a good share of their budget on bamboo, catgut, glue, canvas and piano wire to reproduce an authentic, outlandish armada of vintage aircraft. These flaphappy contraptions include at least six flyable full-scale models, among them a facsimile of the plane in which France's Louis Blériot made his historic 1909 flight across the English Channel from Calais to Dover...
There's nothing he likes better than no taunt one of his colleagues on the City Council, he does it all the time. He relishes outlandish proposals--like chopping off a corner of Harvard Square, turning the Lampoon building into a public toilet, or Harvard Yard into a cemetery--and then resolutely defending them. "It's fun," Vellucci says, and politics should...
...race relations. Greenville is a safer, more open and liberal town because of Hodding Carter. A full and accurate account of the movement, its goals and tactics, might not endear Dr. King to the average white southerner, but such an account would begin to erode some of the more outlandish and dangerous tenets of racism; for instance, that the movement is riddled with communism, atheism and pansexuality...
Every spring, for well over a decade, American League baseball fans have been able to confront the future only by nourishing the outlandish hope that the New York Yankees can be beaten. And year after year, such wishful thinking has proved to be insane; New York has won the pennant in 13 of the last 15 seasons...