Word: outlandishing
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...work less. But if we did, we'd be the French. If you want to see how a culture is defined by its attitude toward the future, rent Luc Besson's The Fifth Element. Perhaps the worst sci-fi movie of all time, it was distinguished only by its outlandish costumes, designed by Jean Paul Gaultier. Give the French a chance to dream up the future, and the first thing they ask is, What will we wear? Americans, on the other hand, want to know what we will drive and how we will kill one another (ergo Star Wars...
...There's usually a one-minute interlude where the patients question, 'Did I do the right thing?' but they're groggy and on painkillers. Then the bandages come off, and they're transformed. That's not the truth." Nip/Tuck is a heightened version of the truth (there's an outlandish plot in the pilot involving a Colombian druglord), and it can be heavy-handed. But the show nicely complicates its morality--the "bad-guy" doctor is charming and perceptive, while the "good guy" is a clueless father and husband--and it's a timely, unsparing psychological look at, well...
...Anthony, the way they all lobbied for the door is typical of their style—they take an idea, no matter how outlandish, and follow it through...
...week little reformed. By sophomore year, I had acquired the nickname “anti-” since I frequently and immediately attacked my roommates’ ideas and would invariably take up a contrarian viewpoint in any conversation (one roommate even started to find amusement in proposing outlandish ideas just to see me get riled up). Garnering such an ugly nickname did make me self-conscious of my potential for unpleasantness and moderated my open cynicism, but it didn’t effect any radical shifts in my disposition...
...agree with Luke Smith ’04 that it is outlandish that Paul Krugman would suggest a link between President Geroge W. Bush and the French general Georges Boulanger (Comment, “Horsing Around with the Electorate...