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Most Outing-rageous Pressure Tactic Some gay activists decided that the best way to halt gay bashing by public figures was to expose the sexual activities of critics who are homosexual themselves. This practice, known as "outing," caused deep embarrassment to several elected officials. Opponents warned that such tactics don't win support -- they destroy lives...
...Back to the Future goes further: this white '80s teenager must teach black '50s musicians the finer points of rock 'n' roll. Out-rageous! After a thunderous heavy-metal riff, Marty stares at his dumbfounded audience and shrugs, "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it." You bet, Marty. You and your whole movie. Now and for 30 years to come...
Citing the vast gulf between the patients' ages, he remarked that Bouvia had a far longer life expectancy, she had more to lose. This point may be questionable; another point seems out-rageous. Nothing that, despite his frailty, the elderly man still had full use of his arms, he decided that it was wrong to mandate that the nursing home staff force-feed him, because it would entail "physically restraining him for the rest of his life." Bouvia's case was different, he noted, because she is mostly paralyzed, and therefore cannot resist the doctors...
Although his outspokenness made him good many enemies, he never was intimidated. "I often find myself in hot water," he used to say with obvious pleasure, "but I don't mind hot water--it never scalds me." And in many cases his out-rageous opinions changed Harvard for the better. Shortly after he arrived at the University in 1926, for example, he stirred up protests against the management of the University Library that eventually led to a reorganization of Widener's system...
Arrested students last night that Cambridge police exercised rageous mishandling" in the hour fracas that turned Square into an early evening field...