Word: outlandishing
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...beginning of an understanding of why the Oklahoma bombers conceived of their sinister plan in the first place. The heavily armed militias that are becoming ever more popular in this country do not simply fashion a delusional vision of the abuses of federal power. Waco proves that their seemingly outlandish claims are not entirely without grounding...
...Worker Is a Ghost," "Psychic Peeping Toms" and "A Dead Celebrity Is Taking Over My Life." But The Other Side is just the latest entry in a fast-growing TV genre that rivals the most irrepressible supermarket tabloids in promoting pseudoscience and the paranormal. No claims seem too outlandish for the ratings-hungry producers: pets that are psychic; ufos that battle with Iranian fighter pilots; people who travel in time or have "out-of-body" experiences...
...look for her. He was subsequently arrested. While Harry was waiting for him to return, a bolt of lighting hit the roof of the motel, the swimming pool started to glow, and a naked man rose out of the water, shocked Harry into unconsciousness and took the money. This outlandish story turns out to be true, and the naked man turns out to be Johnny Destiny. And, since that night, Harry has been waiting for Destiny's return with a large pistol and a pair of "non-conductive," rubber-soled boots...
...fortune, and he is presented as alienated from most of society, except for his devoted wife. The exhibit's biographical materials portray him as a man interested in the simple things in life--his family, his home, his garden. Nolde's skill was his ability to make the outlandish appear from the mundane, and to make it irresistably enticing...
...shot and killed by another city councilman. The opera divides his life into three parts: "The Closet," "The Castro" and "City Hall" represent his sexual coming-of-age as a gay Jewish boy in New York, his rise to local fame at the epicenter of San Francisco's outlandish and highly promiscuous gay neighborhood and, finally, his death at the hands of Dan White, a former cop and fireman who hated everything Milk stood...