But no description of McCarthy's art as social critique really covers its more outlandish aspects.
Scientists and engineers at both institutions worked through the more outlandish aspects of the plan to come up with a report showing how it might plausibly be done.
Stephen Huss and Wesley Moodie's 7-6, 6-7, 6-7, 6-3 win over the American brothers Bob and Mike Bryan, the recent world No1s, was the first time that qualifiers had won a Wimbledon title, but there were other outlandish aspects to it.
Much media attention has been paid to some of the more outlandish aspects of the Republican nominating contest, writes Anand Giridharadas in his latest Page Two column: Newt Gingrich's call for colonizing the moon, Mitt Romney baptizing dead non-Mormons long ago, or Ron Paul half-joking that New York ought to be renamed Welfaria, Rapetown or Dirtburg.
Senate Democrats did manage to curb some of the bill's more outlandish aspects by providing some investor protections.
And when the mainstream media did cover the protests, many outlets tended to focus on its more outlandish aspects and rarely on their substantive arguments.
Rather, they are drilling down on McAuliffe's business career and its more outlandish aspects, such as a 2009 statement McAuliffe made claiming to have "created over 100,000 jobs -- good-paying jobs with benefits and good wages," mirroring a similar brag of Romney's.
Now that I've done some time, I realize that prison-centric entertainment usually ratchets up the absurd and outlandish aspects to the point where I can't even relate, 'cause my experiences were so drastically different than what's on the tube.
Now that I've done some time, I realise that prison-centric entertainment usually ratchets up the absurd and outlandish aspects to the point where I can't even relate, 'cause my experiences were so drastically different than what's on the tube.
What blunts our ability to shake off these hallucinations is that by and large the media seems to define its new calling as reporting on the most outlandish and hallucinogenic aspects of our current situation.
