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...Wider Recognition" award went, most appropriately, to Jason Shiga. Like one his playful comix come to life (see TIME.comix review), Shiga sent an imposter (actually F.C. Brandt) to receive the award. Wearing a black wig and dark glasses the clearly false Shiga then regaled the audience with an absurd shaggy dog story about being born on a desert island as the product of a Japanese WWII pilot and two American army nurses. The second remarkable moment took place courtesy of Frank Miller, author of "The Dark Knight Strikes Again," who has in recent years become far more interesting...
...implication that requiring driving tests for seniors is discrimination is absurd. Old people make laws, old people vote and so old people can cry foul when a law is suggested that requires them to display competence behind the wheel. Almost as ludicrous is that it takes tragedies like these to get people to address the question, and that it once again will be squashed by the AARP and our vote-conscious elderly legislators. Howard Roark Washington...
...Yukos dismisses as absurd the idea that Khodorkovsky was out to take over the Duma, but admits that he funds SPS and Yabloko as a private individual. The firm denies that Khodorkovsky has financed the Communist Party. The scheme, if it existed, was farfetched, given the modest showing of SPS and Yabloko in recent years and the Communists' tendency to self-destruct. But if the alleged plan had worked, Khodorkovsky would have become extremely powerful. Anyway, it came at a delicate time for Kremlin strategists: their party, Unity, is showing signs of coming apart at the seams. Khodorkovsky's apparent...
...particularly annoyed by Joe Klein's commentary on Hillary Clinton [IN THE ARENA, June 16]. Reading her memoir as some sort of objective historical document is absurd. And if she won the presidency, it wouldn't be "attributable to her husband's genius," as Klein wrote. I understand it is easier to focus on Hillary's ever changing hairstyle than to accept her as an intellectual and motivating force in her own right. But Klein could at least have acknowledged that she has had the courage to move forward in public life after a harrowing media storm that would have...
...This hot new dance should become all the rage with comix dorks. "Soapin' Up the Hawg," as it will become known, is just one of the exciting, fun-tastic, utterly absurd delights to be found in the new book, "Shrimpy and Paul and Friends," (Highwater Books; 176pp.; $16.95) by Marc Bell...