Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Having decided against that plan because they thought it was too outlandish, the students are now making their own furniture out of wood...
Though most of the witnesses have testified previously, they have never before faced crossexamination. Both attorneys are persuasive advocates. Bugliosi deflates some of the more outlandish conspiracy theories with rapid- fire probes. Spence, a drawling, flamboyant courtroom performer, homes in shrewdly on ambiguities and unanswered questions in the official account...
...along with the Aussie baiting that "for the English chattering classes . . . had begun to serve as a mild form of licensed antiSemitism." But like many a clever provincial before him, he knows that writing well is the best revenge. In his pages, it is the English who emerge as outlandish, not least in their accents. One office colleague offered James a cake that proved to be a soft drink. "No, not cake," she explained. "Cake. Cake-Akela...
Besides making reprehensible policy decisions, Bennett began a reign of rhetorical terror, startling both for its outlandish implications and its general incomprehensibility. First, Bennett took advantage of the student aid controversy to take a swipe at both pro-education and pro-divestment activists, saying that wholesale funding cuts might "require for some students divestiture of certain sorts--stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three-weeks-at-the-beach divestiture...
...Beaver, Ozzie and Harriet and The Donna Reed Show. In the early 1970s, under the influence of Norman Lear (All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons), TV families became more realistic and contemporary, their problems more substantial and socially relevant. But as the decade waned, TV moved toward increasingly outlandish family match-ups (Diff'rent Strokes, Eight Is Enough) or escaped into nostalgia and parody (Happy Days...