Word: outlandishly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play is neither quite so good as the idea nor so breath-taking as Broadway's swoon over it. Its dream fantasias are much less outlandish than the dreams any psychoanalyst might encounter in a day's work, sometimes lack sparkle, occasionally grow flatulent. But the whole production, spinning from reality to its not too fantastic reveries on four revolving stages, is lovely to look at and delightful to hear. It has one dream of glamorous evening blue, another gilded dream of an Oriental fairy tale, a glittering dream of a circus that turns into a mild nightmare...
...effect, anything but theatrically outlandish, was of a richly lighted Lear centring around a grey hill of steps that revolved for scene changes. The actors often pointed up the dialogue by posturing up and down the steps. They also made sallies into the aisles. If Piscator intended to de-emphasize the individual actors, his accomplishment was not noticeable. The veteran Sam Jaffe (of The Jazz Singer, Grand Hotel and Hollywood) was a subtle, moving Lear whose chief fault was that his appearance kept suggesting that ex-Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis was playing the part...
...assured that novel methods will be adopted, and when we see the originality, malice and ingenuity of aggression which our enemy displays we may certainly prepare ourselves for every kind of novel stratagem and every kind of brutal and treacherous maneuver. I think no idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered and viewed with a watchful, but at the same time steady...
...however, is still the schoolboys' own, often unintelligible to outsiders. A Bootham boy, for example, says: "Just had a juice-meeting with My Lord for tuzhering a bug." Translation: "I've just been reprimanded by the Headmaster for breaking an electric-light bulb." Some other outlandish schoolboy expressions: belly-go-round (a belt), Medes and Persians (the practice of jumping on a boy in bed), flish (to cane...
...lawyer by avocation, devoted years to not paying taxes, finally lost much of his family's rich inheritance after 32 years of litigation and 750 tax suits. Between times he kept in trim by running barefoot in the early morning, accommodated the local photographers with outlandish poses (see cut), regularly ran for office against Crump candidates, regularly lost. (He served two terms in the State Legislature before Mr. Crump came to power.) Last week, for the third time, Mr. Collier again stood for Congress...