Word: far-out
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...been so decoratively misused. Never has the doctrine of free esthetic expression been so abused or engineering advances so superficially vulgarized for effect. There are exceptions, of course, but they are aggressively outnumbered by churches poised like moon rockets, synagogues of country-club luxe in jazzy concrete shells, and far-out flying saucer chapels...
Ever since Miffland established a clear identity as a student quarter, the 2,000 to 3,000 young people living there have made it a showcase for far-out student thought and action. But not everyone buys what he sees in a showcase, and most of the university community does not buy the squatters' turn toward guns or their limited revolution. So far, Weisgrau leads a lonely band...
Within Le Drugstore's maze of corridors and 14 shops, customers can purchase an infinite variety of far-out clothing-from wild lingerie to see-through shirts to sexy pants and fancy wigs. There are cigarettes from India and Japan and France, newspapers and magazines from Paris, Parisian cosmetics, chic boots, bags and belts. A delicatessen offers the usual fare-along with bouillabaisse, ris de veau and lobster en croûte. The bookshop stocks current bestsellers, as well as a discreet selection of high-class pornography and perceptive sampling of the overseas and underground press...
...remotely have succeeded without engaging performances from Miss Hershey (the willful teen queen from Last Summer) and Sam Groom and Collin Wilcox-Horne as Jay and Suzanne Wilcox, the childless couple. The film's strength lies in the delicate interaction of the trio as they move from their far-out decision through the pleasure and pains of childbirth...
...Copehagen, however. Jiveass (or Anthony Miller, as he is now calling himself) finds himself spending his days in the Drop Inn restaurant having long intellectual discussions with fellow expatriate blacks, and his nights in bed with a series of white women who come equipped with all sorts of far-out perversions (sexual and otherwise) that seem guaranteed to strip away all of his carefully prepared defenses. The novel gets progressively more manic as the two worlds begin to collide and intersect and Jiveass finds that even the lies no longer mask the absurdity of his situation or help to give...