Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...That’s absurd,” Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino told the Boston Globe at the time. “Without informing anyone or telling anybody? That’s total arrogance...
...almost 90 percent of applicants who were denied admission to the College last year, it seems almost absurd to suggest that Harvard has low standards...
Likewise, to the hundreds of companies that recruited graduates on campus this year, it seems equally absurd to suggest that Harvard’s curriculum is not top-notch...
...Mack White, for example, creates a penny-dreadful-style comic of text and illustration that spins an absurd story combining Christian mythology, spiritualism, and Jane Eyre-style melodramatics. "That night, after drinking a special tea laced with laudanum and other substances, Paulina lay down to await the Archangel Michael. ... Soon, Dexter appeared in a hooded robe." Many of the artists see no reason use verisimilitude or even be particularly sexy. Ben Catmull's "Howard," shows a chubby guy who gets embarrassed that his bathtub fantasies keep devolving into strange penile animals. "Splish Splosh" are the only sounds in the cutely...
Even when I was off duty, I couldn’t help but stumble into the realm of the absurd. One time I found myself shin-deep in water at a pool party in Lowell House (the absence of a pool made it more interesting than it sounds). On a date, an applied math concentrator proudly informed me that he was “pre-money.” Neil Rudenstine ate me twice—in a comic strip. I became the second Jewish member of the Filipino Dance Troupe. I took part in a voodoo ritual...