Erik Gandini's great documentary, Videocracy, captured that surreal world before it imploded: Mora, an improbable, rotund man who demonstrated his love for fascism with his ringtones, was the circus master of Italian show business.
Given that, it seemed improbable that Manning would muster the sort of late-game drive he led eight times last season.
After going the entire year without a victory, and surviving today's improbable four-man playoff, Mike Weir earned a triumph worth waiting for.
At first sight it seemed an improbable appointment: a man who had served twice as president of neighbouring Georgia, parachuted in as governor of a single region of Ukraine.
When, in one of his earlier memoirs, he turns his attention to Peter Watson — the millionaire who financed Cyril Connolly's magazine, Horizon, and had a series of exceedingly handsome and improbable boyfriends — the man's wealth and élan serve only to magnify the extent to which constructive and destructive impulses exist in the same person, perhaps in any person.
In a way, not only the spate of memoir hoaxes but the recent proliferation of what Yagoda calls "stuntlike" memoirs — narratives that result from highly improbable stimuli ("One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States") — arise from a deeper confusion about where reality ends and where make-believe begins.
Add in our cultural attitudes that tend to dismiss early loss, and it's even more improbable that a man is going to raise his hand and say, "Hey, I'm hurting here".
Varietys Derek Elley rated the film on a par with his Damnation (1988) but as inferior to Sátántangó (1994) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), remarking it was improbable that The Man From London would put an end to the polarization of Tarr's audiences into those who hail him as a director of "visionary genius" and those for whom he is a "crashing bore".
Denver has been one of the season's most talked-about teams, and not just because of the improbable return of Manning from neck surgery to stardom.
Basically, it's an improbable platform for a man who poses as a radical left-wing whistleblower and free-speech frondeur battling the superpowers that be.
