Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into a stag and torn apart by hounds. All too patly, Larry Actaeon sees a lady partner in his investment-banking firm naked in the office of an associate and later that day is killed by his own savage dogs. But the precision with which the story follows the outlandish myth obscures its point, which is that there are edges over which even investment bankers may tumble...
...WALK THE LINE (Columbia), sings Johnny Cash, "because you're mine." A country and western star, Cash is also welcome on the folk circuit because of his agreeable dark baritone voice and the quiet conviction he brings to even the most outlandish tales. These seven of his own songs include Give My Love to Rose, the message of a fellow dying on the railroad tracks, and Folsom Prison Blues, intoned by a cad who "shot a man in Reno, just to watch...
That solution may not be quite as outlandish as one French lawyer claimed: "Juridical nonsense! The French Assembly can now raise the dead." The aim of the law is simply to legitimize any children the woman may have and get her any possible pension; the ceremony gives her no new inheritance rights. But bizarre results are piling...
...jolly good bash, in the best "sundowner" tradition. The big stone house on Kampala's Tank Hill swarmed with 180 laughing, hard-drinking whites clad in the most outlandish colonial costumes: solar topees and fly veils, pith helmets and mosquito boots. One girl came wrapped in a Union Jack. The idea was to spoof East Africa's rapidly fading tradition of Blimpism, and the guests had all been asked to "R.S.V.P. by native bearer in cleft stick or by tom-tom." Promptly at midnight the laughter stopped, and with mock solemnity everyone sang God Save the Queen...
Instead, their place was taken in the arena by the "gadarawa" (male dancers, usually humorous, affecting outlandish or archaic attire) who spun and twirled and twisted, cupping their hands to their mouths the better to emphasize the strident coarseness of he hoarse cries which they continually emitted...