Word: outlandishing
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...cast of Shear Madness varies slightly from night to night. Michael Fennimore, who normally occupies the role of Detective Nick Rossetti but was instead playing the part of barbershop owner Tony Whitcomb, is particularly gifted in hysterical antics. His outlandish gestures and quick comebacks matched his hot pink shirt and shoes and caused his fellow cast members to lose their straight faces. Richard Snee, playing the role of antiques dealer Edward Lawrence, became more animated as time went on contributing many amusing sarcastic facial expressions to the show and retorts to the audience. Chandra Pieragostini could have done much more...
...Court have given prosecutors such powers in order to protect against terrorists and spies. But too often, argues Jonathan Turley, national security expert and law professor at George Washington University, prosecutors use national security to make their jobs easier, not to make the country safer. "The government routinely makes outlandish allegations about national security," he says, "to force plea agreements...
...street shoes have shown tendencies toward the outlandish as well, though the deformations are subtler, taking the form of ghastly square-blockishness in the toe, for example (perhaps a way of allowing a 25-year-old management trainee at Chase to think he is still wearing his Doc Martens skinhead stompers). The mistakes in men's designs - fortunately or unfortunately - do not have the (screwball) style of the women's errors. The men's shoes merely have about them an air of stolid, depressing stupidity, as if they had been designed 40 years ago in Communist Bulgaria. I trudge...
...19th, and the Red Sox find themselves in first place in the AL East, seemingly validating Sports llustrated's outlandish World Series prediction. Already, you can hear the Red Sox faithful hail the inevitable end of The Curse, anoint Carl Everett the American League MVP and, perhaps worst of all, sweat Pedro Martinez even harder than usual...
...Despite such outlandish occurrences, Carlos says that Harvard Square is a pretty calm place, especially in comparison to other areas in the city. Carlos has never been robbed, nor had a gun pulled on him. Nevertheless, he acknowledges that driving a cab can be dangerous, and that other drivers have had very frightening experiences. "A friend of mine was shot in the arm for no reason," he says...