Word: outlandishing
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...this proposition about as far as it can go. In such short novels as Karate Is a Thing of the Spirit, The Hawk Is Dying and Car (in which a man eats a car), Crews customized gothic cliches into literary hot-rods. A Feast of Snakes is his most outlandish vehicle to date. Set in Mystic, Ga., site of an annual rattlesnake hunt, the book gathers its atmosphere from the frenzies and violence associated with religious primitivism...
...been involved in 1965, perhaps the potential dangers of the accelerator that exploded may have been more easily recognized. And, if a resident had been on the biohazards committee at its inception, perhaps the proposal to place the facility within the Bio Labs would have been recognized as being outlandish. As it is now, Cambridge's entrance may be too late; Harvard scientists have established the rules, and any review board may be forced to play ball with them...
...discussing economic issues. And when Pound employed his penchant for flair and strong language to support the Fascists during World War II, he became an accessory to genocide. C. David Heymann's new book, what he calls a "political profile," examines the process whereby Pound was transformed from an outlandish man of letters to a malefic man of the people...
...cryptic, demotic jargon-and the Arkahoma accent in which it is invariably delivered no matter where in the U.S.-may seem outlandish to many. If so, they had better hang easy and adjust to it. From 8 to 10 million more CB sets will be sold in 1976, which with extra equipment could amount to some $2.5 billion worth-nearly as much as total sales of TV sets. One of the biggest manufacturers, Hy-Gain Electronics Corp. (maker of Betty Ford's rig), reported that 1976 first-quarter sales quintupled those for the same period...
Physically the film has an excellent look to it. If the old photographs are to be believed, this is how Hollywood seems to have been in the 1930s. There are moments-tough and outlandish-where we are temptingly close to the spirit of Fields as it has come down to us through his movies. They are sudden, brutal incidents of misanthropy (and misogyny) expressed in bitter humor that startles with the ring of truth...