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...treasures and to encapsulate three centuries of Russian history, of the Czars and commoners who lived, worked, danced, suffered and died in those sumptuous rooms and labyrinthine corridors--but because Alexander Sokurov is as much an artist and storyteller as he is a magician-technician, viewers can forget the absurd degree of difficulty in the logistical challenge of keeping nearly a thousand extras and dozens of crew members out of the way of Tilman Buttner's high-definition digital camera and instead go along for the ride in this regal fun house--madhouse, as Buttner rushes after a Czar...
...feed us incomplete information and red herrings? Since defectors are normally so helpful to intelligence—when they are willing, that is—it is not difficult to imagine our attention focusing on information from forced defectors, with a dangerous drop-off in more haphazard, but less absurd, traditional random-check weapons inspections. In a situation where so much rides on the outcome of these inspections, it is imperative that the defense department listen to the state department and U.N. critics and abandon this misguided, potentially devastating course of action...
With intelligence and humor Raeburn's writing mixes up the highbrow world of 50-cent terminology with colloquialisms like "idjit," for "idiot." Never dry or academic, he often includes personal anecdotes like the absurd story of his torrid affair with "Peaches," the daughter of drug runner. Then he admits to making it all up. Then he says it's true, mixing up life and art as much as any historieta melodrama. Even the design, also by Raeburn, perfectly mimics the look of a typical historieta, right down the paper stock of cover. The man's commitment is total...
...simply not the council’s place to financially support discriminatory groups. Indeed, the council should instead be fighting for the removal of groups that refuse to stop discriminating. It is absurd to think that a portion of the $35 activities fee that nearly every undergraduate pays on his or her termbill should be given to groups that not every undergraduate has the potential to lead and fully enjoy. It would be similarly ridiculous for the council to provide support to other groups with discriminatory membership policies, such as the all-male finals clubs and the all-female social...
...around the clock for weeks that claimed Landrieu had lost touch with Louisiana values because she lives in a million-dollar mansion in Washington. Landrieu's row house next to a dry cleaner on a major thoroughfare might be worth a million--Washington real estate is absurd--but it's surely not worth more than Terrell's residence in a gated community in the Garden District of New Orleans...