Media, for the most part, want drama, intrigue, and outlandishness.
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The above list of Trump's outlandishness this week is far from exhaustive.
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The scene has earned the 1979 film a lot of mockery because of its campy outlandishness.
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Still: the harrowing outlandishness of the dramatic situation is almost sufficient to emotionally concuss the viewer.
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Outlandishness and raw unparseable awe are what the Olympics are selling, and what they were selling four years ago.
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The silly outlandishness of this image, and many more to come, is part of the movie's enormous humor and charm.
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But in 2017, I find Jenna's issues more resonant, her outlandishness a better balm against the outrageous misogynist currently in power.
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However, it's the outlandishness of their shenanigans and situations, their utter removal from "pedestrian middle-class existence," that immediately detains us.
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The game may have only occupied a few seconds of screen time, but the familiar outlandishness of the concept resonated with fans.
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It is a measure of the outlandishness of this endeavour that fashioning such a nanoscale spacecraft almost seems like the easy bit.
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In an election season marked by one unprecedented development after the next, it's easy to become numb to the outlandishness of it all.
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But her buoyancy and ad-libbing outlandishness help make Damon Runyon's tale of gamblers and their gals feel like a boozy, bawdy party.
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The outlandishness of anti-Semitism is emphasized — the idea that Jews have horns, for instance — to the exclusion of its less superstitious manifestations.
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A media company built on subversion and outlandishness was unable to create "a safe and inclusive workplace" for women, two of its founders acknowledge.
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One might balk at its outlandishness, or squirm at its vivid, protracted violence, but it keeps your attention and doesn't leave any fireworks unpopped.
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Donald Trump is currently giving his first major address on his foreign policy vision, a topic on which he's alternated between caginess and scary outlandishness.
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There's an infectious sense of delight to these scenes, a giddiness that helps sell the big moments — not despite but because of their sheer outlandishness.
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Meanwhile Aquaria, Monét X Change, and Asia O'Hara were all hilarious in the parody movie, bringing the outlandishness and relatability that good comedy always requires.
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But the sheer outlandishness of the claims being made, and believed, suggested to many that the Internet had brought about a fundamental devaluing of the truth.
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But in telling Snowden's story—a complicated and controversial one, ultimately about a far more complicated and controversial government program—the outlandishness is also a liability.
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The joy in watching them is largely based on their obvious absurdity — the uncanny narration, the knockoff–Disney Channel set design, the outlandishness of the projects.
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He allowed young bands in the genre to spread their wings and really embrace the outlandishness that has become part and parcel of the metal experience.
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Media Matters' Carusone said it was the extreme outlandishness of Jones' claims that made it impossible for the major social media companies to justify maintaining his pages.
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" Despite the outlandishness of his exploits, the stops on Wash's journey have none of the allegorical quality of the towns featured in Colson Whitehead 's " The Underground Railroad .
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Rob DePiazza I dug the movie for its outlandishness and agree with A.O. Scott about its comedic attributes, but I could barely tolerate the weakness of Lawrence's character.
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Some of these agglutinations have a satisfying outlandishness about them: That smooching pair, for example, are wearing huge masks from the Bamana people of West Africa on their heads.
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Then there is the sheer outlandishness of the Trump era: When most anything is plausible it is also printable, but that does not necessarily mean you are getting it right.
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For Japanese game and toy maker Creatures, which is best-known for the Pokémon trading card game and multiple series spinoffs, the outlandishness of Detective Pikachu took a lot of convincing.
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Not a celebrity or art-world personality was in sight, and almost no one seemed to have bothered to dress up for the occasion, let alone attempt a Bowie-esqe outlandishness.
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Just as he saved the C.I.A. melodrama "Homeland" from its own histrionic urges, Mr. Lewis pulls "Billions," which begins on Sunday, back from the brink of macho outlandishness with his natural gravitas.
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In doing so, the movie embraces the outlandishness of Cruise's character, the plot and the masks, and every other goofy trope, treating these extraordinary things as just another facet of work life.
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And, as Sean Illing detailed recently at Vox, it exploited a media ecosystem that is built to give attention to lies (in order to debunk them) and outlandishness (because it's entertaining or newsworthy).
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But all of this outlandishness and absurdity means that writing a joke that actually lands—a joke that he hasn't already thought of himself, then turned into a song and profited from—is difficult.
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It may seem like politics is so over-the-top that there's no need to make up plots, but when considering the role of fiction, the overall senselessness of the Trump chaos is far more important than the outlandishness of any one element.
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It's at once a homage and a parody, equally aware of that era's excesses and its glories, of the way that the most memorable 1970s R&B merged sensuality, activism, humor, toughness, outlandishness, futurism, soul roots, wild eccentricity and utopian community spirit.
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Indeed, when, in 1916, Clarence Saunders opened the first self-service grocery store, the Piggly Wiggly, in Memphis, Tennessee, stocking a thousand products—four times as many as the average store—for customers to pick out themselves, the idea was mocked for its sheer outlandishness.
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Put aside the outlandishness of the suggestion for a minute, and consider the way female vocalists typically appear within the context of the genre-cum-marketing-term: painted on with total anonymity, not unlike the blank android faces in the faux-deep Will Smith sci-fi actioner I, Robot.
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Put aside the outlandishness of the suggestion for a minute, and consider the way female vocalists typically appear within the context of the genre-cum-marketing-term: painted on with total anonymity, not unlike the blank android faces in the faux-deep Will Smith sci-fi actioner I, Robot.
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But the outlandishness doesn't stop there, because in addition to a USB-C port for data and charging, the Hydrogen One features a (gasp) headphone jack and a microSD card tray that you can pull out with your fingernail, rather than relying on one of those tiny tray ejector pins that instantly disappears the second you get a new phone.
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They can be counted on to invent ghoulish conspiracy theories (Vince Foster, Benghazi) out of nothing, or to identify a legitimate impropriety (her email practices as secretary of state) and react so out of proportion (suggesting, for instance, that the squeaky-clean conservative FBI director, James Comey, is covering up her crimes) that the story becomes about their outlandishness, rather than her conduct.
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Finally, Pope says that Cibber's offences are compounded by the outlandishness of his claims. Although he was "a person never a hero even on the Stage," he sets himself out as an admirable and imitable person who expects applause for his vices.
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Al Horner of Drowned in Sound gave the album an 8 out of 10, describing it as "a dizzying rush of grinding synths, sun-splashed harmonies and wide-eyed eccentricity – with a strange beauty to match its outlandishness." It was ranked at number 19 on Tiny Mix Tapes "Favorite 25 Album Covers of 2011" list.
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The , 240-pound Santop was noted for his outlandishness and his confidence while playing. He was reported to have called home runs while in the batter's box. In a 1912 game, he was credited with a tape-measure 500-foot bomb – a remarkable feat in the dead-ball era. In another game, Santop was the recipient of a knockdown pitch from ex-New York Giant Jeff Tesreau in an exhibition game.
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" Jim Shelley again commented on the outlandishness of the character's storylines following Abra's next return to the show, in 2007. He wrote: "Ric and Ade Edmondson had been conducting secret operations on orphans smuggled in from Africa (as you do). [...] It's TV crack--instant, mind-altering, utterly addictive." He also dubbed the line "I don't know why people complain about the NHS." his 'Naive statement of the week', with the explanation: "Hmmmm let's see.
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White ultimately gave the episode a 6.5/10, calling it "Okay". TV Squad writer Joel Keller criticized the episode for not featuring a true plot, writing that "this felt like a series of sketches in search of a plot." The Office co-creator Ricky Gervais also commented on the outlandishness, particularly Warren Buffett's appearance, saying "If you're going to jump a shark, jump a big one." He also compared the episode to the Chris Martin episode of Gervais's other series, Extras.
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Classily lensed in widescreen and tighter than a rattler's tail, this should be a steady rental earner (and possible cult movie) in mature markets—where the cast of U.S. video regulars will strike chords among buffs—with some theatrical business elsewhere. Plot springs some surprises both in its outlandishness and in not respecting casting conventions. Otherwise, it's purely formulaic, referencing any number of bigger-budgeted predecessors in look and content. Roberts, surprisingly good, and Van Dien handle the dialogue best, and Catherine Oxenburg, as Renart's wife, worst.
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The Hans the Hedgehog character is a half-hedgehog, of clearly tiny stature. In the tale he rides a cock like a horse, and the two together is mistaken for some "little animal". Hans is treated as a "monster" in his folktale world, and thus distinguished from Thumbling or Tom Thumb who are merely diminutive humans. Unlike the other Grimms' tale characters who are portrayed as a fully animal form, Hans is the only half-animal half-human hybrid, thus increasing his overall outlandishness.
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John of Trevisa spoke about nearby "strange men an aliens" in discussing northren English's alleged outlandishness, and in Osbern Bokenam wrote about Scots' influence on northern English in his Mappula Angliae. Bi the 14th-century, Lowland Scots became the main language of Scotland's Lowlands (excluding Galloway, which still spoke Gaelic). Despite this, Northumbrian began to lose its significance in England by the 16th century. Northumbrian dialectical terms, accents, and manners of speaking were considered incorrect and inelegant those in power, who were seated in the south of England.
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Franz Kafka: Kurze Prosa / Erzählungen. Klett, 2007, pp. 163–64. According to them, the narrative is a metaphor for the suffering resulting from leprosy, an escape into the disease or a symptom onset, an image of an existence which is defaced by the career, or a revealing staging which cracks the veneer and superficiality of everyday circumstances and exposes its cruel essence. He further notes that Kafka's representational style is on one hand characterized by an idiosyncratic interpenetration of realism and fantasy, a worldly mind, rationality and clarity of observation, and on the other hand by folly, outlandishness and fallacy.
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Having established his divinity in eastern lands, Dionysus - the god of wine - returns to Thebes, land of his birth as well as his mortal mother Semele's horrible and shameful death. Angered over his homeland's refusal to acknowledge his divine nature, the son of Zeus intends to establish the worship which he insists is now his due. Having put a spell on all the local women, a great celebration of dance and wine takes place in the nearby Glens of Cithaeron, attended even by the former king Cadmus and blind prophet Teiresias. When word of this outlandishness reaches Pentheus, the young and rational King of Thebes, he orders the immediate arrest of the blonde stranger responsible for the mayhem.
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In 1994, after having his interest in games revitalized by trips to Macworld 1994 and Be-In, a local video game expo, Eno formed Warp with a small team of programmers and designers including animators Fumito Ueda (Ico and Shadow of the Colossus), Takeshi Nozue (Final Fantasy VII Advent Children) and Ichiro Itano (Macross), all of whom later became famous under different employment. While EIM had been modeled after Interlink, Eno modeled Warp after Panasonic's 3DO department. Warp produced a number of titles for various platforms, however its main output consisted of games designed for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer. Under Eno's management, Warp's games were noted for their outlandishness and unconventional production.
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Jan Pinkava came up with the concept in 2000, creating the original design, sets and characters and core storyline, but he was never formally named the director of the film. By 2004, Pixar added Bob Peterson as a co-director and was given exclusive control of the story. Lacking confidence in the story development, The Incredibles director Brad Bird was approached by Pixar management to direct the film, taking over Pinkava's role in 2005 while Peterson left the film to work on Up. Bird was attracted to the film because of the outlandishness of the concept and the conflict that drove it: that rats feared kitchens, yet a rat wanted to work in one. Bird was also delighted that the film could be made a highly physical comedy, with the character of Linguini providing endless fun for the animators.
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Instead they decided to parody the fact that almost every comic book has been turned into a film. Jean commented that that scene in the episode in which the studio executives "are trying to think up an idea that hasn't been done really is what they are doing these days [in real life]". In the season eleven episode "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)", The Simpsons go to a screening of The Poke of Zorro, which is largely a parody of the Zorro film The Mask of Zorro (1998). Jonathan Gray wrote in Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality that The Poke of Zorro "ridicules the outlandishness of Hollywood blockbuster fare," especially its "blatant historical inaccuracies" which sees the film feature Zorro, King Arthur, the Three Musketeers, the Scarlet Pimpernel, "the Man in the Iron Mask and ninjas in nineteenth century Mexico".
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The B-52's sing the song "Glove Slap" in the episode The Simpsons go to a screening of The Poke of Zorro, a loose parody of the Zorro film The Mask of Zorro (1998). The movie also parodies various films. Jonathan Gray wrote in Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality that "The Poke of Zorro ridicules the outlandishness of Hollywood blockbuster fare, especially its blatant historical inaccuracies which sees the film feature Zorro, King Arthur, the Three Musketeers, the Scarlet Pimpernel, the Man in the Iron Mask and ninjas in nineteenth century Mexico." During the credit list of The Poke of Zorro, actors John Byner, Shawn Wayans, Rita Rudner, Cheech Marin, Gina Gershon, Curtis Armstrong, Eric Roberts, Spalding Gray, Anthony Hopkins, James Earl Jones, Meryl Streep, singer Victoria Beckham, wrestler Steve Austin, soccer player Pelé, and producer Robert Evans as having roles in the film.
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Conversely, Richard Corliss of Time said that "virtually every joke [in the film] either is visible long before it arrives or extends way past its expiration date" and added, "Whatever the other critics say, this is a bromance so primitive it's practically Bro- Magnon." In his review in The Baltimore Sun, Michael Sragow called the film a "foul mesh of cheap cleverness and vulgarity" Joe Neumaier of the Daily News gave the film two-and-a-half out of five stars and noted, "Amusing as it is, it never feels real. That may not seem like a big deal—a lot of funny movies play by their own rules—except that The Hangover keeps doubling-down on the outlandishness." Family-oriented reviewers have harangued the film, noting that Galifianakis said he tried to forbid his own mother from seeing it and that he yells at parents of kids who tell him they like the film.
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