The current New York dumpling spectrum ranges from hyper-traditionalism to outlandish rule-flouting.
Now as then, many Sunnis hate the extremists for their merciless violence and enforcement of outlandish and arbitrary rules on personal behaviour that have no connection to even the strictest interpretation of sharia.
Even if these rules seem silly or even outlandish, they hold merit in her world.
As a rule, Amis will make some outlandish statement, generally in jest, that will provide second-day headlines in all the papers.
In a perfect world, more children's films would be like Spirited Away, which boasts a kind of dream logic, rustling up an outlandish universe which nonetheless runs to its own set of rules.
Both of these are outlandish by the usual standards of trade diplomacy: the WTO's rules cover neither labour standards nor exchange-rate policy.
He loves to issue outlandish statements, sometimes repeating himself just to make clear his disdain for the rules of the genre.
In my experience dealing with his more outlandish estimates of his own wealth, a useful, if not entirely reliable, rule of thumb is to move the decimal point one place to the left.
In the 1990s, the tabloids ruled, and they blanketed the country with the most lurid and outlandish headlines about the case they could think of.
A third woman, Willie (Janice Rule), stands just outside their intimate little circle, busying herself with painting outlandish she-creature murals as she waits for her child to be born.
The bottom line: From childhood through colleges, all amateur sports and even on to professional sports, the rules for allowing trans people to belong and perform are inconsistent at best, and outlandish and ignorant at worst.
