Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shuffling wastes from one leaking site to another that may soon turn porous may seem absurd, but there is no way to eliminate all landfills as short-term disposal necessities. The same is true of the use of hazardous- waste incinerators. While they risk befouling the air, they are nonetheless a necessary temporary expedient...
...trouble is, Richler can't make fun of the condition because he suffers from it. He harbors so much anger, presumably owing to his own mother, or to his own miserable upbringing in Montreal, that his novel gets bogged down by sheer malice. The fictional Joshua's mother is absurd--a vain, floozy stripper--and his coarse father (adequately played by Alan Arkin, in the film's only good performance) lives a cliche. Richler's story of Jewish lust/angst was better served by Philip Roth in Portnoy's Complaint...
...boyfriend." The single most undisputed fact about AIDS is that gay men, intravenous drug users, and hemophiliacs constitute the overwhelming majority of AIDS victims, and are unequivocally the greatest risk groups. To speak of "the college co-ed and her boyfriend" as a risk group is patently absurd...
...respond," Jobs declared. "Maybe they want to parade me naked through the square." His way of responding was to call a press conference at his spacious but spare home in Woodside, Calif. Dressed in faded blue jeans, a wool sweater and tennis shoes (no socks), Jobs called the lawsuit "absurd" and insisted that he never intended to steal any of his old firm's proprietary technology...
Although demand for blood in the Northeast has dropped from last week's crisis levels, Marie Cloutier Dislo '83 of the local Red Cross said that demand remains high. "Too many people are still afraid that you can get AIDS from donating blood, which is absurd," Dislo said...