Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jewel a year. Once the gem is decided upon, then we work on the mounting. And we make an incredible setting." Yablans calculates that the "totally choreographed" campaign has created some 1.5 billion impressions of Gatsby in the collective moviegoing mind, a statistic as unprovable as it is absurd. More important to Yablans, who is tightfisted as well as two-fisted in his business dealings, "the price was right." Paramount has spent a mere $200,000 for publicity and promotion so far, and it dipped into its $1.5 million paid-advertising budget for the first time only two weeks...
...book, and the implied parts of his character are fascinating." Redford's biggest problem was Gatsby's language. "He simply didn't talk like a real person," he says, quoting Fitzgerald's own description of his hero: "His way of speaking bordered on the absurd...
...other U.S. ground forces. All of these crimes were, of course, in violation of international laws which the U.S. government agreed to obey. This is the primary reason, in my view, why so many concerned Americans consider the trial, conviction and sentencing of Lt. Calley to prison as absurd and literally obscene...
...ideology! This must not happen, ever! ... So give them their ideology! Let the Chinese leaders glory in it for a while. And for that matter, let them shoulder the whole sackful of unfulfillable international obligations, let them grunt and heave and instruct humanity and foot all the bills for absurd economies (a million a day just for Cuba) and let them support all the terrorists and guerrillas in the Southern Hemisphere too, if they like...
...decadence, the Chinese ban automobiles, alcohol and sex, mais alors, c 'est impossible! Mao's minions then decide to let the French indulge themselves in their vices and suffer the consequences, but the captors are eventually corrupted and abruptly ordered home to Peking, whereupon a handful of absurd partisans "liberate" Paris...