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This Sullivan argues that rent control imposes hard and often absurd burdens on small landlords, and he supports a system of "vacancy decontrol," which would allow an owner to stop renting a controlled apartment after the tenant left. Supporters of the current system, however, say David J.'s proposal would both reduce the housing stock and encourage landlords to use devious means of getting tenants to move...
...wisdom of academia, taught in all the better universities to young armies of new historians, who dismiss most of the traditions of political and cultural history as elitist, impressionistic and irrelevant. History as a narrative study of great men and great events? Obsolete. History as a branch of literature? Absurd...
...That's absurd," I said. "But at any rate, you can't say that the war in the Gulf is a good thing...
...Billy Show" is equally transparent in motive. Sure, Billy is a fine manager for a few months, but to think any New York Yankee can take him seriously at this point is a bit much to ask. And promoting Lou Piniella to the post of general manager is patently absurd...
Even more absurd than this plot line is Ross' insistence on pummeling his audience with the parallels of the ballet Giselle with this film of Giselle. Shots of Giselle's grave in the staged ballet are interspersed with fuzzy-lensed shots of Lisa looking sickly angelic. And since Dancers is a film of the filming of Giselle, Ross attempts Bergman-like self-referentiality--with shots of cameras and film crews, lenses and light meters--but only succeeds in overstating his own inadequacy as a film director...