Word: absurder
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...getting furious at Hollywood for mangling great novels and instead allow a movie version to stand on its own. This season's Austen fare, "Emma," adapted and directed by Douglas McGrath, borrows the book's social satire, but unwisely replaces its canny ironic bite with what in comparison resembles absurd slapstick. We can enjoy the product of this limited adaptation--funny, outrageously decorated--but it's anything but great Austen...
...Speaker Gingrich declared that becoming American means learning English, Democrats railed against the bill. "This is mean-spirited. I don't care how you camouflage it," said Texas Democrat Kika de la Garza. "This bill is making us the laughing stock of the world. It's ridiculous. It's absurd." Terence Nelan
...coming into the Olympics, but it's not something we thought would happen. I just feel bad for all the families involved." Barkley fully supported the plan to move on with the games. "To let whoever did this get away with this and cancel the games, that would be absurd," he said. Only about 20,000 people were in the stands for the track competition at Olympic Stadium this morning compared to more than 80,000 on Friday, but officials speculated that it was the steady rain, not sudden fear, that kept people away. Fans at the first...
When it was announced that Disney planned a singing, dancing Hunchback of Notre Dame [CINEMA, June 24], it seemed like an absurd idea. Having seen the movie, I can only assume the next project will be something along the lines of Anne Frank, the Musical. PHILIP J. SCHACCA West Hempstead, New York
...young woman meets a young man to whom she is inexorably drawn, but to her horror she soon discovers that they are brother and sister. That a contemporary drama (one that is unconnected to Aaron Spelling) could fuel itself with such a story line seems absurd. That it would succeed in doing it so artfully is an unanticipated pleasure...