Word: looniest
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SHOULD THIS elevating contact with some of Britain's looniest minds lose its charm, the research assistant alternately can choose to immerse himself in the topics of national importance with which he has been entrusted...
Clarence Pendleton is hardly the first chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to cause controversy, but he is the first to do so by attacking the civil rights programs. In 1984 Pendleton ridiculed comparable worth--the effort to equate pay scales in different jobs--as "the looniest idea since Looney Tunes," and he has denounced U.S. black leaders for marching toward a "political Jonestown" of Government welfare dependence. Pendleton's fighting style has grown more visceral by the issue, so that even some who agree with him think he has lost effectiveness. Commission Member John Bunzel, who usually votes...
...that furious merchandising, Adams, 32, a 6-ft. 5-in., former television script editor (Dr. Who), has become a cult figure at colleges throughout the galaxy. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is billed, with impeccable logic, as the trilogy's fourth volume. It is the looniest...
...would like to think he is, upwardly mobile from the streets of Little Italy that formed him. His problem is that his best friend and cousin, Paulie (Eric Roberts), has enough downward mobility for any two inhabitants of the fringe. It's not long before the looniest of his cracked, crooked schemes has them being pursued by both police and Mafia...
...beginner, it is well to remember that art-world habitues eat, sleep and breathe art, even though most of them cannot afford to cover their walls with it (especially the many art students and part-time art teachers). Thus they are accustomed to staring earnestly at even the looniest creations. Remarks like "Is this some sort of a put-on?" instantly brand anyone as an outsider...