Word: outlandishing
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...understated, painfully personal song about abortion hit the airwaves and sent album sales soaring. Disillusioned by a frenetic touring schedule, the pressures of a hit song, and the disintegration of his second marriage, Folds broke away from his musical path, releasing his first solo album, the fairly outlandish Fear of pop: Vol. 1, featuring a collaboration with William Shatner and a lengthy rap from his eventual third wife, Australian Frally Hynes...
...train had run Bill over just below the waist, cutting him in two. It was strange actually, because one of the wheels was still on top of him. His legs and feet must have been over on the other side.” It is this contrast between outlandish actual event and cool, indifferent narrative reaction that makes Dogwalker as powerful as it is. The lurid events and dark underworld that his characters inhabit suggest that Dogwalker is a serious commentary on the isolation and desolation that has become endemic in contemporary society...
...there were tacky parties. We would rifle our mothers' closets trying to find some weird, mismatched outfit to wear. But our moms were never trashy enough to produce anything as outlandish as the so-called haute fashion of this enlightened age. Thanks, Joel, for saying what we old broads think. PEGGY PONDER-PERRON San Antonio, Texas...
...Scooby-Doo episode, Shaggy and his friends play a basketball team that cheats by using supercharged "electronic sneakers." Gizmos on real-life sneakers are getting nearly as outlandish. Nike's Shox line, below left, introduced late last year at $150 a pair, features springs in the heels, providing runners and hoopsters with what the company calls "responsive cushioning." This summer the company also released Air Hyperflights, above right, an extra-light basketball shoe combining a new synthetic material with snazzy, Ferrari-like styling. Sneakers like Skidz and Street Flyers are incorporating roller-skating wheels. And one new brand, Heelys...
...Copenhagen in 1956, he had a hard time finding suitable furniture for the project. So he designed the Egg and Swan chairs. Both use artificial foam for the interior and, most dramatically, neither chair has a single straight line. More than 40 years old, the chairs are so outlandish that they still find their way into rock videos and onto fashion magazine covers. Jacobsen, who died in 1971, also designed his own cafeteria-style chair, called the Series 7, which has a feminine tapered waist...