Word: absurder
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Have the nation's teachers lost their minds? The spate of news stories would have you think so. Maybe Bob Dole was on to something when he blamed the people who mind our ABCs for everything that's wrong in the schools. Certainly, it does look absurd to treat Advil as the gateway to addiction and a seven-year-old's clumsy mauling as sexual harassment...
...baseball writers think this is up for grabs. I don't. They say it's between a bunch of burly hitters with absurd power numbers and lofty batting averages. I don't. I hope I'm not being partial by giving this one to Mariano Rivera...
Baker is not the working class hero, "standing tall...against the culture of absurd complaints," as Barnicle believes. Baker is a boorish, disrespectful self-stigmatized pseudo-intellectual who attempted to defend his unprofessional actions by citing Plato instead of heeding his employer's request for a formal apology. At the very least, he could have said: "Look, I graduated from Harvard in 1976, but I'm stuck in a dead-end job. Can't you understand why I'm grouchy...
...While Muslims worldwide howled in protest, he announced he was "proud" that his government had opened the Jerusalem tunnel. Hours after the initial Israeli-Palestinian gunfight, he asserted that "there is nothing to worry about." As for the complaint that the peace process was moribund, he maintained, that was absurd since he had after all already met with Arafat once. Asked whether he thought Netanyahu was insensitive, a senior U.S. diplomat replied, "Oh, my gosh, that's an understatement...
...songs was largely excellent, including standards and some interesting sub-standards, like the Gershwin self-parody "Blah Blah Blah" and Leonard Bernstein's pattersong "I Can Cook Too." "Blah Blah Blah" particularly allowed deLima to camp it up, leading the audience in a sing-along while capering to the absurd lyrics. (The screen on which the lyrics were projected was a nice touch, too.) As for the four Sondheim songs, including three in a row at the end, they were not too big a price to pay for the rest -- which is saying quite...