Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...learn anything from the amateurs? While college football's overtime format may be more fair than pro's, it is absurd in a different way. In many respects, the setup feels like a game kids play at recess. Forgoing kickoffs altogether, each team receives the ball at the opponent's 25-yard line, meaning that without moving an inch, a team is already in field goal range. Teams alternate drives towards the end zone, until one team scores more than the other in an individual possession, or period (to try to move things along, the teams must...
...bringing in mostly old Clinton hands to populate offices in the West Wing and Cabinet agencies? Not necessarily. The Democratic bench is deep, but it is deep in large part because so many Democrats earned Executive Branch experience during the eight years of the Clinton presidency. It would be absurd to imagine Obama bypassing all of that experience in the name of bringing in only fresh blood. Undoubtedly, Obama will also bring in loyal campaign staffers and advisers who are not Clinton-era veterans. But installing someone like Emanuel to anchor the White House staff makes eminent sense. As Begala...
...situation is absurd,” Tenenbaum said. “It was never about the money. It was about creating a scary situation to deter others...
...overturned, and constitutional amendments could be instated to ban gay marriage and alienate any number of “inalienable” rights. The outpouring of feverishly imaginative and angry literature that would result could put the old Feminists to shame and make our grandparents blush.All wrapped up in absurd attacks on race, socioeconomic status, and religion that we’ve seen in this election is something fundamental and ever-present in the artistic output in the United States: what it means to be a “Real American.” For McCain to win at this...
...defamiliarize the familiar and highlight certain similarities that wouldn’t otherwise be obvious. The routine parts of life—worries about what the boss will say, or the wife will do, or the men will think—are emphasized even more against the backdrop of absurd calamities—a plane crash, an organ rupture, or a sinking city. Even in extraordinary circumstances, the ruts of their daily life are too deep to escape. Through these strange but memorable stories, Tsutsui invites the reader to explore the ridiculous. One just hopes that some readers will respond...