Word: outlandishing
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...Perils of Paulette." This is Wishman's first film in which she delves into the violence and exploitation which became popular in the late '60's and early '70's. This "roughy," as the type is called, has plenty of slapping, struggling and hard sex. The outlandish settings and situations of these films sometimes helps to lessen the impact of their intensity. And they cannot compare to episodes like the rape scene from "What's Love Got to Do With...
...cover-up of that crime is amply documented, both in the recollections of his chief aides and in excerpts from the White House tapes. He orders the CIA to thwart the FBI's investigation of the break- in, discusses paying hush money to the Watergate burglars, devises ever more outlandish stratagems to avoid turning over the incriminating tapes. For nutty nostalgia, can anything beat the unforgettable Stennis gambit? As a compromise, Nixon proposed that only one person be allowed to listen to the tapes -- John Stennis, a conservative 72-year-old Senator from Mississippi who was hard of hearing...
BUZZ ALDRIN bravely wrote about his post-moonwalk nervous breakdown in a 1973 memoir, Return to Earth. He is head of Starcraft Enterprise, a California firm that promotes his ideas for reinvigorating the space program -- some of them outlandish enough to have earned him the sobriquet "the Nutty Professor" in the halls of his ex-employers at NASA...
...corporate messages. This explains why in the OK campaign, Coke has set up an 800 number to let drinkers sound off about the beverage, and thereby define it for themselves. In another understated, low- tech move, the company is mailing out chain letters in target markets that mock the outlandish claims that companies often make for their products...
...women have been striving all these years to upgrade our stature in society. Now disrespectful clowns calling themselves designers insultingly propose that we wear ludicrous, outlandish costumes fit only for a rebellious, attention- craving 13-year-old. You should have disdained the eccentricities of misogynistic minds...