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...rest was all American. And the Commerce Department defines "foreign-owned" as "a U.S. business that is owned 10 percent or more by a foreign investor." By this absurd measure, companies with almost no foreign control are defined as "foreign-owned...
...making everything as exaggerated as Kabuki yet remaining utterly real. Her silences get laughs as big as her lines; her takes are often + no more than a glance or a slight tilt of the head, yet they are as howlingly funny as someone else's pratfall; and every absurd moment is suffused with the pain of an ordinary woman yearning for respectability from a man incapable of giving it. As Prince says, "This is my role. She has my sense of humor. The dialogue tumbles out of my mouth...
...other hand, a firm sense of human scale is no small virtue in such a project, and neither is a good sense of humor, which keeps reminding us that the grandeur of what American immigration achieved historically was created out of less-than-grand, occasionally absurd human motives...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E. however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is a absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all Hume did not live in a vacuum...