Word: absurder
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...absurd, It was just like the Twilight Zone. The referees had no idea: they couldn't figure it out. Their contact with reality was hurting." Brown men's water polo Couch Ed Reed said after his team heat Harvard, 13-10, before 90 fans Sunday in the first round of the New England championships at Blodgett Pool...
...sentiment and seriousness of the World War II era. Today the Beatles' cunning collages piece together scraps of tension between the generations, the loneliness of the dislocated '60s, and the bitter sweets of young love in any age. At the same time, their sensitivity to the absurd is sharper than ever...
EVEN IF you were alive then, it must be pretty difficult now to remember the way it was. And if you weren't, the whole idea sounds absurd and disgusting on its face. But at one time--and it was not a long time ago at that--major league baseball was like an exclusive white men's club...
Still, it seemed absurd that Marcos himself would order his old enemy to be killed so clumsily. Most speculation centered on two sources: the radical left, which would stand to benefit from a weakening of the moderate opposition and a brutal blow to Marcos' reputation; and, more plausibly, some of the President's senior aides. While still in the U.S., Aquino had told TIME that he feared the loyalist forces around Marcos more than tie did the President. The reason: in the long run, Aquino felt, he would be an obstacle to their political ambitions. Aquino was known...
...sailed across the Atlantic in his 13½-ft. Tinkerbelle, a craft so tiny that it looked like a bathtub toy. Years passed-it takes a certain sort of person to enter the Ridiculous-and last year Briton Tom McClean sailed from Newfoundland to England in an absurd craft called the Giltspur, more than 3 ft. shorter than Tinkerbelle...