Word: absurdities
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...contrast between the world of the gangsters and the Hollywood men who think themselves hip, a self-image that melts after contact with Chili’s genuine cool. But when everyone is a gangster there is no such contrast. The characters’ behavior quickly becomes an absurd oversimplification of music business stereotypes: women are sensual, blacks are gang members regardless of their lifestyles, Italians are smooth mobsters, Jews are only interested in money, and gay men are overtly feminine...
Watching, discussing, and analyzing The OC may seem like an absurd pastime. But if you can find meaning in this absurd pastime, chances are you can find meaning in that other absurd pastime called life...
...perhaps the most absurd passage of a thoroughly absurd book, Wiener writes: “Gray, Katz, and Ulrich are guilty of…suppressing inconvenient evidence, spinning the data their way, [and] refusing to follow leads that didn’t serve their thesis.” But Wiener never explains what evidence was suppressed or what leads weren’t followed. He gives his reader no reason to believe that Gray, Katz, and Ulrich spun their data...
...hormones, encouragement, practice, diet and drugs. Brain patterns fluctuate within the same person, in fact, depending on age and time of day. So while Summers was also right that more men than women make up the extreme high--and low--scorers in science and math tests, it's absurd to conclude that the difference is primarily because of biology--or environment. The two interact from the time of conception, which only makes life more interesting...
THIS IS GOING TO SOUND ABSURD, BUT BEAR WITH ME. ISN'T IT SOMETHING LIKE BEING A MOVIE STAR? As far as movie acting, yeah, sometimes people expect you to be something more than you are. Really, you're just doing a job, applying some techniques you've learned. But it's ruined a lot of people. You tell somebody like Marlon Brando that he's brilliant and exceptional and you ruin his whole life--all of a sudden this Mid-American guy feels like a fool. But, you know, you become what you become in life...