Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jesse Jackson's claim that Vanessa Williams did for the Miss America Pageant what Jackie Robinson did for the Brooklyn Dodgers is absurd [Oct. 3]. Williams lives in a society that has legally abolished racial segregation. That was not the case when Robinson broke baseball's "color barrier" in 1947. Also, Williams did not endure the racial insults or physical intimidation that Robinson did. The two achievements are not comparable...
...Lenny (Caryn West), the eldest, feels incapable of consummating a relationship with a man because one of her ovaries is missing. Doc Porter (Tom Stechschulte), the debonair neighbor, suffers from a limp as a result of his roof caving in. The bizarre nature of the situation--bordering on the absurd--would make any audience uncertain whether laughter or tears are appropriate...
...absurd, It was just like the Twilight Zone. The referees had no idea: they couldn't figure it out. Their contact with reality was hurting." Brown men's water polo Couch Ed Reed said after his team heat Harvard, 13-10, before 90 fans Sunday in the first round of the New England championships at Blodgett Pool...
This message is vulnerable to distortion: Kelling wants police to manage torture and murder. That's absurd: what I want is for police departments to honestly appraise their use of force, apprise communities and neighborhoods of how it is used, formulate its future use in consultation with neighborhoods and communities and do this within the context of constitutional safeguards protecting personal liberty and with concern for communal peace and security...
...sentiment and seriousness of the World War II era. Today the Beatles' cunning collages piece together scraps of tension between the generations, the loneliness of the dislocated '60s, and the bitter sweets of young love in any age. At the same time, their sensitivity to the absurd is sharper than ever...