Word: absurdities
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...this drawn-out allusion to Dante is purposeful, it raises the discomforting and rather absurd suggestion that New Yorkers are themselves somehow guilty for 9/11. But even if the allusion to Dante is unintentional – as one would hope – then McDonell’s treatment of 9/11 is still both mystifying and maddening. The terrorist attacks are portrayed as a sort of reflection of Mike’s personal tragedies. His mother and father, who form a dysfunctional and unloving couple, have cast a shadow over his childhood, and the fall of the Twin Towers...
...spite of the contentiousness of the hearings, the Democratic senators injected humor into their speeches on Wednesday. Saying the proceedings were “getting a little more absurd the further we move,” Schumer soon prompted laughs from an audience that had become acquainted with Roberts’ rhetorical patterns...
...scholars and restorers who have visited the scaffolding seem to agree that the extreme care with which the work proceeds, the constant testing, the minute adjustment of the strength of the solution to the chemical and stratigraphic analysis of each portion of the fresco, is very far from the absurd impression of the restorers that the antis give in their more rhetorical moments, almost as if they were a gang of purblind pedants swiping at the ceiling with mops and Easy...
...statement of his views." When contacted by a reporter, Jackson's former secretary denied that her boss ever supported Plessy; later, Jackson scholar Dennis Hutchinson of the University of Chicago told the New York Times that the Justice never asked his clerks to summarize his views. "An absurd explanation," Hutchinson said. In 2001, after his own political leanings had tacked left, former Nixon aide Dean ended his book on Rehnquist with two words: "Rehnquist lied." Although some Senators reached the same conclusion in 1971, the Senate had rejected two other Nixon Supreme Court nominees in the past two years...
...That may be an overreaction. Such claims "are quite patently absurd," complains William Lakin, director general of Euratex, which represents E.U. textile producers, because there's plenty of other merchandise made in the E.U. and elsewhere available. Lakin says that any fixes to the original deal should be minimal. Still, the prevailing wind has changed. Mandelson, now under pressure from more free trade-minded governments including Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, last week announced that there was "a serious glitch" in his June deal and dispatched a team of officials to Beijing to try to renegotiate part...