Word: outlandishing
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...What more would he have lavished during those off-the-field stretches than to share a cigar with Luis Tiant in the dugout, or to chop down wood with Carlton Fisk in the backyard of his New Hampshire home? The BSO marathon, by coincidence, offers an analogous plethora of outlandish non-musical premiums for the generous and non-musical, musical and daring, non-daring and generous pledgers. Two one-hour flying lessons with Joseph Hearne, BSO bass player, for $200; chocolate rum cake baked by BSO violinist Ronan Lefkowitz '75 for $25; a doubles tennis match against violinist Sheldon Rotenburg...
...High Costs. Then came the October War of 1973, when Israel lost about 100 jets and 800 tanks. Arms purchases abroad since then have totaled $6 billion, swelling the balance of trade deficit in 1975 to more than $4 billion. The outlandish cost of armaments-$25 million for an F-15 today, v. $4 million for a Phantom jet in 1970-along with the rising prices of other imports, pushed the inflation rate into the stratosphere...
Stoller, who has been studying gender identity and sexual perversion, concludes that the same psychic factors found in perversion are also found in the sexual lives of most people: hostility, mystery, risk, illusion, revenge and the reversal of a trauma or frustration. "We try to make the outlandish folk function as scapegoats for the rest of us, but anyone-analyst or other-who collects erotic thoughts knows that many citizens, avowedly heterosexual, conspicuously normal . . . are also filled with hatred and wishes, if not plans, to harm others." The difference between normal person and pervert, he feels, is one of degree...
During Stalin's iron rule, he commanded virtually unlimited support for his outlandish agricultural schemes, controlled the direction of research in areas far beyond his competence-and set back Soviet genetics nearly a generation. Indeed, when Izvestia last week belatedly revealed the death of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko at age 78 in a brief back-page announcement, his bitter legacy was still all too apparent. Only now are the biological sciences in the U.S.S.R. finally recovering from what the American geneticist I. Michael Lerner calls "the most bizarre chapter in the history of modern science...
...informer. Ruff began to probe into the matter after he was tipped to the existence of the report by several sources, including an aide to a Democratic Congressman. Asked by TIME about these charges last week, Ford's chief of staff, Richard Cheney, said, "The charge is so outlandish and preposterous and also false that it doesn't merit comment...