The most tragic and outrageous aspect of the tuna/dolphin story in the ETP is that the practice of encircling dolphins to catch tuna is entirely unnecessary.

"It is one of the most outrageous aspects of the Shoreham matter," said Lilco's chief spokesman, Joseph W. McDonnell.

Nonetheless, "The Little Richard Story" turns a gratifyingly deadpan eye on the more outrageous aspects of Richard-selling and Richard-worship.

"The most outrageous aspect of this is to ask our police officers to appear at work 10 more times each year," Mr. Lynch said.

They are boisterous rather than violent; they rejoice in the world that they mimic even as they point up its grotesque or outrageous aspects.

Perhaps the most outrageous aspect of steel restrictions is their supression of American free choice.

The developments in Congress reflect the positive side of all these disclosures - a desire even among supporters of the death penalty to eliminate some of the most outrageous aspects of how it is applied.

Mr. Conover seems to have focused on the town's more colorful and more outrageous aspects, and Aspen comes across as a collection of weirdos, nuts, conspicuous consumers, self-indulgent partygoers and aging narcissists.

Newspapers, including the New York Times, dutifully recorded and printed the testimony, often accentuating the most outrageous aspects of it.