Word: outlandishing
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...jolly good bash, in the best "sundowner" tradition. The big stone house on Kampala's Tank Hill swarmed with 180 laughing, hard-drinking whites clad in the most outlandish colonial costumes: solar topees and fly veils, pith helmets and mosquito boots. One girl came wrapped in a Union Jack. The idea was to spoof East Africa's rapidly fading tradition of Blimpism, and the guests had all been asked to "R.S.V.P. by native bearer in cleft stick or by tom-tom." Promptly at midnight the laughter stopped, and with mock solemnity everyone sang God Save the Queen...
Instead, their place was taken in the arena by the "gadarawa" (male dancers, usually humorous, affecting outlandish or archaic attire) who spun and twirled and twisted, cupping their hands to their mouths the better to emphasize the strident coarseness of he hoarse cries which they continually emitted...
...songs-the one and only performance of some trail blazer's lapse into buffoonery. But the au courant audience had come to hear a conclave of the bizarre as well as the beautiful, and like buyers at a fall fashion showing in Paris, they cherished the new and outlandish for its own sake...
...that the difference between Anglicans and Lutherans is that of form v. content. Anglicans, via the B.C.P. and the episcopate, keep the form inviolate, even if theology runs helter-skelter. Lutherans, in spite of Helsinki, stand firmly on their Confessions, yet often go through the motions in the most outlandish manner, simply to demonstrate that form means nothing. Pray God that ere too long, the two of us will sit at the same table together-first to talk, ultimately to share the Supper of the Lord...
Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver was a glad-hander who never managed to look really glad. He was a campaigner who achieved a kind of glum sincerity even when his head was smothered under an outlandish coonskin cap. He was given to platitudes that put him foursquare in favor of "the best interests of the plain people of this nation" and "an even break for the average man." Some of his Senate colleagues insisted that there was a vacuum in the space between his ears. And he was a loner who became anathema to the national Democratic hierarchy...