Word: outlandishing
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...there is a flip side to my argument that dressing unconventionally is the way to go. A person (usually of the teenage persuasion) might dress as outlandish as possible, but only to get attention. That may be amusing for a while. Rebelling against conformity is extremely important, especially in our heavily advertising-oriented consumer society. But there comes a point where rebelling just to rebel against conformity becomes, ironically, enough conformist in and of itself...
Keep in mind that, outlandish as it sounds, this scheme comes from a man who made his career betting against the short-term odds. No one is longing for environmentally correct transportation. But there has never been as much global political pressure to produce nonpolluting vehicles. In Asia and Europe, where noisy, gas-powered scooters are fast being outlawed, electric bicycle markets are exploding. Analysts like retired GM engineer Frank Jamerson expect even the minuscule U.S. market, led by enviroconscious California, to double this year, as it did in 1998, to a total of 30,000 bikes sold. "How deep...
DIED. ANITA HOFFMAN, 56, social activist; of breast cancer; in San Francisco. Wife of the late Yippie Abbie, Hoffman joined her husband in some of his more outlandish activities, such as disrupting trading at the New York Stock Exchange by showering the floor with money. She also supported him for years while he hid from the police to avoid drug charges...
DIED. FLIP WILSON, 64, caricaturist; of liver cancer; in Malibu, Calif. Creator of such pop cultural icons as Geraldine--the proud, sassy black woman who warned admirers that "What you see is what you get!"--Wilson was the first African-American entertainer to host a variety show. His goofy, outlandish style of humor was defiantly nonpolitical. "Funny is not a color," he said. "My main point is to be funny. If I can slip a message in there, fine...
...different from Keats. Both made it their life's mission to seek understanding of the world around them. But what Dawkins ends up doing is attacking Keats and bathing his whole argument in the same scientific hubris to which the romantic poets objected. Some of Dawkins' claims are particularly outlandish. He declares that "Keats might have been a better poet if he had gone to science for some of his inspiration." Dawkins even quotes a few lines that a poet used to attack Newton and Bacon and comments, "What a waste of poetic talent" (the poet he was referring...