Word: outlandishing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...appalled by sports' high finances. (Cincinnati has surrendered its outfield in toto to New York-Ken Griffey and Dave Collins to the Yankees, George Foster to the Mets-for contracts amounting to more than $20 million.) But they are growing used to grand sums, not to mention outlandish arbitrations. Mike Flanagan, the Baltimore pitcher, submitted a figure of $485,000 and then found out that the Orioles' recommendation to the arbitrator was $500,000. Deferring to their superior judgment, Mike instantly gave...
...financed by the ACLU. Indeed, in modern popular culture there is no more distinctive aesthetic than the gay one. As defined by Canadian Critic Lawrence O'Toole, it includes a taste for grand romantic gestures, excesses of "spirit, personality and desire" and "a refusal to apologize for outlandish behavior." This spirit, O'Toole argues, informed the mannered and stylized American comedies, musicals and romances of the '30s and '40s, many of which are now considered classics. These days he finds it notably lacking. Of the current crop, Victor/ Victoria perhaps aspires to some of it, though...
Still, the publishing business has endured crises before. The paperback revolution of the '50s was perceived as a threat to hardback publishing; so were television, outlandish contracts, school and library closings, and federal cutbacks. The business survived them all. And today it is moving, however slowly, toward a new reality-although the latest paper chase sounds like a fairy tale: the Papa Bear, Mama Bear, Baby Bear deal. The term was coined to describe Tom Robbins' 1980 intermountain fantasy, Still Life with Woodpecker. The book was published simultaneously in a $12.95 hardcover (Papa) and a $6.95 quality paperback...
...Kremlin succession: The Soviet Union is in deep crisis. Its economy is in serious trouble. Soviet power is overextended globally, and there is mounting disaffection among diverse social and ethnic groups. When [President Leonid] Brezhnev goes, his successors will face two choices. They can keep making outlandish appropriations for defense and engaging in global adventures, or they can face up to their internal problems, turning away from military expansionism toward reform of the domestic system. Russia has experienced throughout its history periods when the government had to turn inward to cope with its problems. The idea that the greatness...
Sellars offers explanations for many of his departures in the scene-by-scene synopsis he has prepared for Orlando's audiences. Though gratuitously academic at times ("In an extraordinary passage in 5/8 time, considered outlandish and daring in the 18th century, Orlando crosses the river Styx...) and occasionally pretentious ("What is man? What is a man?), for the most part, the notes show the puckish sense of fun that characterizes the production at its best. "This will not do," Sellars writes, "and Zoroastro abandons subtlety and launches into his aria, 'Leave Love and Follow Mars: Go Fight!' (The Pentagon, after...