Word: outlandishing
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...make your own garam masala, eschew cappuccinos for chai and think Bollywood dance classes are the height of chic. Now buy the shoes. Come November, Reebok will be releasing its first-ever couture sneaker collection; to design them, it has selected New Delhi's most outlandish couturier, 33-year-old Manish Arora. Retailing at up to $500 a pair in India (and considerably more in New York City), Reebok's Fish Fry range reflects the explosive use of color and kitsch for which Arora is fast becoming known. Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise...
...were surprised to appear on the list. “I can think of other leaders in public health and medicine who are better candidates for such a distinction,” Farmer wrote in an e-mail. “To be comparing us to Oprah is quite outlandish,” Kim added. Gergen said he hoped the list would help leaders promote their organizations, but Kim said he has received little attention from the article so far. “My suspicion is it’s going to be very...
...sharp-eyed narrative, and in which the shock of discovery between the kindly British ironist and California's odd circles of philosophers, quacks and movie stars was most electric. Isherwood's gift was for bringing a clear-eyed sympathy and an irreverent open-mindedness to even the most outlandish scenes. Almost every page, in Isherwood's best moments, is alive with immortal incident (Dylan Thomas pawing Shelley Winters at The Players restaurant, or a local hostess mistaking Stravinsky for "a comic on the Molly Goldberg show"); with penetrating observation (Garbo is "the woman whose life everyone wants to interfere with...
...surroundings despite (or perhaps due to his acceptance of) the frequent disarray. Ultimately, the film succeeds because Crowe is not maliciously satirizing a certain region of the country or political view. Drew’s more liberal immediate family and his conservative, religious southern relatives are both equally outlandish. Instead, Crowe focuses on the chaos that is present in each of our lives, encouraging us to revel in it (after all, isn’t every family a bit strange?). Because of Crowe’s strong direction and writing, the audience will come to appreciate “Elizabethtown?...
...skepticism about Hubbard and the more outlandish facets of Scientology aside, from the beginning I felt like I kind of got auditing. Other things in Dianetics seemed weird. This I could relate to. At the heart of the religion, auditing touches on a common experience. When I have issues, I talk them out with my friends. When some of my peers have serious issues, they seek counseling. When Scientologists have issues, they work them out with their auditors...