Word: outlandishing
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...exacts a terrible price for hubris. Before long he was traveling the ancient trade routes, striking coup after coup. In 1974, when the record price for an ancient coin was about $100,000, he bought the rarest of them all, the 5th century B.C. Athena decadrachm, for a seemingly outlandish $420,000. But within the week he sold it for $470,000. That same year he opened a coin shop on tony Rodeo Drive in the heart of Hollywood...
...have I come to make such a seemingly outlandish prognosis? By looking at the student publications, of course. In the period of two weeks, two student-run publications have attacked, unfairly and offensively, two of the most influential, dare I say powerful, African-American men on campus...
Culled from interviews with the principals and other reports, the details of how the deal was wrought are melodramatic, sometimes outlandish, with images of a marionette severing its strings, of a wife for whom honor is more important than life, of diplomacy being improvised as time runs...
...amazement can escalate into astonishment, that is the difference between Alegria and Mystere. From the black baby carriages at the beginning to the giant lumbering snail at the climax, director Franco Dragone peoples the stage with outlandish figures from a Bosch or Robert Wilson dreamscape. They have sad eyes or pinheads or faces on the backs of their heads, or they wander about pensively on stilt legs, passersby in the parade of life. They somnambulate while the acrobats somersault on a trampoline bent up at the ends, as others jump from one vertical pole to another using only leg power...
Stone is always ready to defend his movies' most outlandish theses. O.K., Oliver, hit it: "Let's look at the statistics. Violent crime has remained flat over the past 20 years. But the perception of crime has changed; now it's the No. 1 enemy. Every night on the news it's back-to-back murder and body bags. Even the national news is perverted, because the news has become a profit-oriented enterprise since Tisch took over CBS. It's the old yellow journalism. Now that communism is dead, they need new demons. This virus has infected...