Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Magritte, which opens the evening, is a half hour-long exposition of the punchline to some joke based on a mildly obscure Magritte painting. A couple (Andrew Goldfarb and Susan Clafin) engaged in an absurd series of interior-decorating sight gags tries to reason out an event--possibly a crime--they saw in the street earlier that day. Standing in their cluttered set, they argue back and forth; if anyone fails to consider this unusual, Goldfarb's senile mother (Betsy Menes) intermittently plays the tuba to ensure a properly surrealist feel...
When the Texas jury first pronounced the verdict against Texaco, the sum was so enormous that it seemed absurd. The award appeared certain to be reduced drastically on appeal. Almost no one believed that Pennzoil, the 200th largest U.S. industrial corporation (1986 sales: $1.78 billion) and the 20th biggest oil company, would be allowed to topple a titan about 18 times its size. But Texaco soon learned that it was dangerously vulnerable to an unusual provision of Texas law. In this case, it required Texaco to post a bond for roughly the full amount of the judgment while the company...
...know the concept may strike you as absurd, but because of my unique position as a fanatical observer of Harvard hockey, I felt it was my duty to present the first (so far as I know) All-Hockey Team...
...students, who are all members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), criticized the complaints calling them "absurd...
...nostrils, supposedly provides a jolt, and isn't cocaine? Presenting Ener-B, an intranasal gel loaded with vitamin B12 and sold in health stores for $12 a twelve-dose box. Like '60s celebrities who swore by B12 shots, enthusiasts claim the new nose job supplies a burst of energy. Absurd, say experts, and the FDA is investigating. Most people have a five- year B12 supply stored in their livers; excess simply gets excreted. "If you buy this gel," sniffs Dr. Victor Herbert of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center, "you're going to have the most expensive urine...