Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Incumbent Gerald R. Ford's patently absurd description of Poland as a free and independent state dominated press coverage of the 1976 debates. Ford's remark was a classic example of the kind of epic mental lapse that the debates' set the stage for and award top billing...
...think it's great to have things to cheer on Harvard, but when school pride gets to the point where you're actually putting down the other institution, especially an institution like Yale, it's absurd," the band boss adds...
...aware that the words "Aga Khan" constitute a herditary title bestowed in 1817 by the Qajar rulers of Iran on the religious leadership of the Nizari Ismaili community. The present leader (Iman) of the Ismailis is thus more accurately designated as Aga Khan IV. It is therefore quite absurd for your reporter to treat the word "Khan" in "Aga Khan" as if it were a last name (e.g. Khan, the super-rich Pakistani leader....). The inappropriateness of such a usage can perhaps be best illustrated if one were to refer to the British Prince of Wales as simply "Wales...
...American protest movement. Hyperbolic flame-thrower Dinesh D'Souza followed in The New York Times by implying that those who support divestment from South Africa are in fact condoning mass extinction and, by obvious implication, persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union. That charge, in addition to being utterly absurd, lent a new, odious twist to anti-Semitic-baiting by the right...
...Other Husband, much like Entre Nous, seems to be a testimony against men. Alice's two absurd mates, surprisingly, are the best of the bunch. But the film can't decide whether it wants to be a satirical farce or a movie with a purpose, and it ends up being neither funny nor meaningful...