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Attempting to get topical, Cope sinks into a mire of sentimentality and bombast. From Peggy' liner notes: "This classical mythical image of 'enlightenment' ironically mirrored the supposed death of the world through the Greenhouse Effect. It was a beautiful and absurd double-edged sword. This enormous Mother Earth was standing at the very edge of the highest cliff of Infinity--and was about to leap off...I had to make this record about the crazy situation...

Author: By Jordan Ellenberg, | Title: New Music | 11/5/1992 | See Source »

...have no idea why people are voting for Clinton," said Fred Stimmons, a Business School graduate. "His campaign was an extraordinary collection of misrepresentations. He can't possibly keep up his promises. It's absurd. He's a buffoon...

Author: By Emily J. Tsai, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Patriotic Pomp Can't Disguise Gloom | 11/4/1992 | See Source »

...think it is absurd for two reasons," said President Mark J. Barker...

Author: By Ivy A. Wang, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Undergrads Train With NOW | 11/3/1992 | See Source »

...lecture, titled "Black Rage and the Absurd," is the second in the three-part series "Being and Blackness: The Struggle against Nobodiness...

Author: By Alice S. Chen, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Negative Images Hurt Blacks | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

...Austro-Italian surveying team determined that the find was 92.6 m (101 yds.) inside Italian soil, namely the autonomous region of South Tyrol. The result has been a custody battle every bit as absurd as the bungled recovery effort. "Rome was ready to demand the body back immediately," explains a South Tyrolean scientist. "It was then that we in South Tyrol pointed out that this province has authority over its own culture and patrimony." Innsbruck, of course, wanted to keep the celebrated corpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stone Age Iceman | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

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