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Massey yesterday called the suit an absurd attempt to take revenge on Tribe...

Author: By Maggie Pisacane, | Title: Court Throws Out Tribe Suit | 10/4/1994 | See Source »

...money to buy alcohol that I'm entitled to buy anyway," Gilman said. "In a state with so many students from out of state, it's absurd...

Author: By Nan Zheng, | Title: State's New ID Policy Irks Students, Vendors | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...times, task-force work bordered on the absurd. On March 16 he recalled that amid the frantic pace, Magaziner sent a memo to group leaders noting that 5,000 letters were arriving daily. "We need your help," Magaziner wrote. "Our goal is to answer this mail before our May deadline." On April 2, 1993, after being asked for details of savings from various price-control proposals, Ukockis participated in another silly session. "We sat around the table making guesstimates of the savings to be realized. It was an appropriate exercise for April Fools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tales From the Crypt | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...sour side. When getting a picture made means hocking your car, borrowing on your inheritance and panhandling your friends, the art that results can look pretty desperate. All the new films discussed below, even the comedies, play like cries from the heart -- want ads from the abused and the absurd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: The Little Movies That Could | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...Gorbachev in August 1991. Varennikov was the only one of 12 defendants to refuse an amnesty offered by the Russian parliament earlier this year. The state prosecutor in the trial claimed that Gorbachev may actually have encouraged the plotters by not opposing them vigorously enough, a conclusion Gorbachev called "absurd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week August 7-13 | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

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