Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Scottie” S. Thompson, ’05, former publicity manager of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, agrees. “Do I miss freezing my hands off in the middle of winter? No,” she says, adding, “It’s kind of absurd when it’s so cold the tape doesn’t stick.” Karlin has a different take, citing the campus’ “general feeling or inclination that postering should be done very early…it’s strange to poster...
...unsent, and as a result students’ packages idled away in increasingly infamous package depots. While the buzz of parcel activity related to the start of school makes the depots a necessity to prevent the bombardment of boxes on House superintendents, the current implementation of the system is absurd...
...executive producers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese (the team responsible for Joe Schmo) asked Shatner to move into Riverside with a fake entourage and crew and pretend to shoot a sci-fi movie. Townsfolk were hired for the bogus production. Throughout the eight-day shoot, Shatner played an increasingly absurd, over-the-top version of himself. "The last thing we set out to do was make fun of small-town America," says Wernick. "The thing we actually set out to do was make fun of Hollywood." That would explain the kleptomaniac tendencies of one of Shatner's sham-movie...
...called the prosecution’s case “the most absurd story ever told in a courtroom in the United States...
...Schwartzman says of the film. The boyish actor sits across the room from Russell, clad in a Brooks Brothers button-down, dress pants and sneakers. “The ideas in the movie are huge messages, huge ideas that we do need to ask ourselves. They are absurd at times. I think the great thing David did was make the ideas easy to understand...