The 65-year-old singer and actor, who merged rock and theatre with his androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, is synonymous with futuristic costumes and outlandish makeup, from space-samurai outfits to white satin kimonos, flame-red hair to eye-liner.
Her friends and family will gather in New York for a private celebration of her life and accomplishments on November 4. While many of her contemporaries were filling enormous canvasses with the barest minimum of pictorial adornment, she went her own way creating complex worlds and outlandish machines in spaces often no larger than 12 by 10 inches.
This office — the title character, as it were, of "Room 17B," 65 minutes of outlandish incongruity occupying a small space at the 59E59 Theaters — contains about 260 file drawers.
Supported by experts in biology, geology and celestial mechanics, Dr Mileikowsky argued to the American Astronomical Society meeting in Atlanta that this is not as outlandish as it sounds.Bungling space organisations apart, the only mode of travel open to microbes seems to be meteorites.
Like those of their Twitter counterparts, Weibo users' conjectures about the plane's fate have run rife and have ventured toward the outlandish ("had they traversed a space-time portal??").
These included what auditors described as outlandish expenditures on salaries, cars, office space and a golf course membership, free housing and a car and driver for the school's director.
Heap has become television's go-to oddball, best known for the roles of otherworldly conceptual artist Brian in Spaced and Green Wing's outlandish and obsessive Dr Alan Statham.
But their size, boisterousness, sloppy gestures, outlandish behavior, also eat up all the space.
This talented cast were encouraged by Whewell to pursue often outlandish stories that gave them freedom and space envied by their colleagues on other papers.
Marvel has become expert in using stunningly spiky screenwriting as a deft sleight of hand so that audiences look the other way when confronted with preposterous Norse demi-gods in outlandish costumery, not to mention barmy anthropomorphic space raccoons.
