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...Caligari (Alvin Epstein) and his dubious troupe blast into town, demanding to use the arcade as a setting for their show. Caligari tricks many of the townspeople into participating in his performance, and they all realize too late that they will not make it through Caligari's twisted and absurd variety act alive...
...College public service staff, was envisioned long before Dean Kidd's appointment. Your argument against this move--that PBHA should retain isolated and exclusive dominion over this precious space in Harvard Yard because people might not be able to comprehend that two different organizations were in one building--is absurd on its face. But rather than attempting to answer the various individual fallacies in your letter, I will make just a few general points...
Bono: A lot of what's called rock these days does seem like folk music. It does seem absurd that there are punk rockers in the late '90s rebelling against their parents with their parents' music. I can't quite get my head around that. It's "Dad, you suck--can I borrow your Sex Pistols album?" White-bread rock has, for me, lost its sense of adventure and seems very tired in comparison...
JERUSALEM: This is how bad a week it's been for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: His own mother showed up in the U.S. press questioning his policies. She told the Washington Post that she is no longer proud of her son, that peace with the Arabs is absurd, and that the release of Palestinian "terrorists" rendered the death of her first son meaningless. More fuel was added to the fire Monday, when Israel's withdrawal from the West Bank ran into a dead end as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat rejected plans to remove troops from just over nine percent...
...development. Such historians have looked for the deeper rhythms of economic growth and change, territorial expansion, developments in the arts, and environmental factors as examples of what we should be studying instead. Nonetheless dynasties have risen and fallen across well over three millenniums, and it is not completely absurd to depict the People's Republic as the latest manifestation of this historical phenomenon...