Word: outlandishing
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...artist's project in Harper's Bazaar, provides another interesting comparison with Ritts' commercial photographs upstairs. Sherman, easily one of the most important photographers of the past fifteen years, photographs herself in various guises ranging from ingenue to Bacchus. In "Untitled #282," she lies before us in an outlandish, semi-transparent gauze dress by one of Madonna's favorite designers, Jean-Paul Gaultier. Her legs are slightly spread, but the voyeuristic gratification usually afforded us by such images is denied by our recognition of the opaque, flesh-toned tights which ascend from a seam at Sherman's toes. Here, Sherman...
After a first term in which he became known more for his outlandish comments about women's anatomy than his legislative acumen, Hoke dodged a bullet in 1994 and hopes to do so again. Though a supporter of the Contract With America, he has gone his own way on bread-and-butter Republican issues like NAFTA, which he opposed, and family medical leave, which he supported...
...would die for lack of oxygen. Now the mainstream media strive to get every sensational rumor "in play" without being held responsible. The classic gambit is to print a rumor by way of criticizing the tabloids for running it. The new laundering device is hardcovers. Then, no matter how outlandish the content or how biased the publisher, you can cower behind "I read it in a book...
...Wright. In the more than 50 collections he has produced since 1968, Calvin Klein has remained Seventh Avenue's most devout modernist, its pre-eminent avatar of form-follows-function thinking. Each season his models have ambled down the runway in clothes created in quiet protest against fashion's outlandish theatricality. He has never dabbled in a world of beaded headgear or rubber cocktail dresses. "I've always believed in simplicity," Klein reflects. "I've never been one to see women in ruffles and all kinds of fanciful apparel. To me it's just silly." No matter what the Gaultiers...
...Melville set the tone in 1857 with The Confidence-Man. Mark Twain later brought the national style of go-getting to popular perfection in Huckleberry Finn. An adult rereading of that masterpiece reveals a hierarchy of hustlers, from runaway slave Jim and his fortune-telling hair ball to the outlandish charlatans calling themselves the King and the Duke...