Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aidan Parkinson's charismatic, spellbinding Johnny who walks away with the play. True, Johnny is given most of the better bits in the play--the zingy one-liners, the outrageous insults, the outlandish questions--but he serves them up with relish. He embarrasses his sisters, he mocks Tom to his face, he mistakes his father's ashes for cocaine, yet underneath he is surprisingly compassionate and level-headed. The family grudgingly, silently loves him best, and Parkinson's charm makes it easy to understand...
...Regiment during the American Civil War, and Oliver Stone's JFK. All of these works carry political messages, as do many academic works of history. But these messages are intimately bound to their historical vehicle. Glory, for example, could only work with its Civil War setting. Likewise, JFK, as outlandish as its interpretation of the Kennedy assassination may be, nevertheless attempts to participate in the historical dialogue and inquiry, through an unorthodox, non-academic medium...
...hands of Shrier, the delivery seems outlandish in its seriousness, as if a strange corruption in the play's text--devoid of any ambiguous undertones that would point up the doctor's assumed staidness, perhaps self-consciously realized as false, perhaps not. Instead, it becomes another prescription, and the questioning yet fascinated look from Sylvia seems almost camp, as the moment of connection slips away...
Hundreds of Harvard undergraduates in assorted costumes flooded Plympton Street at 12:30 yesterday morning after Harvard police broke up the annual Adams House Masquerade, a dance renowned for its outlandish costumes and deviant...
...School and when he appeared on a Tribe Called Quest's classic "Scenario," the hyper Busta set himself aside from the rest of the pack. Moving into the realm of solo performers, he took his audacious persona to another level with flashy, self-designed fashions and outlandish videos. On his solo debut, however, the originality and energy of the image never seemed to match that of his music (except with the hit "Woo-Ha"). Although a creative lyricist, Busta delivered his fractured stream of consciousness flow in both a smooth sing-song and sonic growl with an energy that very...