Word: absurdities
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...Virgin” is most of all a reflection on its quirky but grounded creators. Carell comes from a background of delivering fake news, realistically presenting absurd topics. Apatow, who is making his feature-film directorial debut, is known for creating two generally acclaimed but swiftly cancelled shows, “Freaks and Geeks” and “Undeclared,” both of which offered wacky insight into the plight of teens and college students, respectively...
...absurd thatNew York Timesreporter Judith Miller was put in jail for refusing to reveal her confidential sources and Rove remains in a job paid for by U.S. taxpayers. It's time for Bush to demonstrate true character and leadership and do as he promised, without parsing the relative legality of Rove's actions, which were at the very least arrogant and unethical. That sort of behavior should not be tolerated by either the President or the American people. We expect better from our public servants, elected or otherwise...
...David Fabricius, who could not accept Johannes Kepler's discovery of elliptical planetary orbits. Why? Because the circle is so pure and perfect that reason must reject anything less. "With your ellipse," Fabricius wrote Kepler, "you abolish the circularity and uniformity of the motions, which appears to me increasingly absurd the more profoundly I think about it." No matter that, using Tycho Brahe's most exhaustive astronomical observations in history, Kepler had empirically demonstrated that the planets orbit elliptically...
...absurd thought that someone must be responsible for such an enormous injustice wouldn't go away. As I went about the city talking to survivors, I found myself repeatedly asking who they thought was to blame. Was there a reason to it all? Could God do such a thing to a people so proudly religious, who had already suffered so much? Most looked at me blankly; they were far too preoccupied with feeding their surviving family members and burying the dead to consider such existential musings. One or two even grew angry. Was I saying God had punished Aceh? Wasn...
Should Hong Kong aspire to be the Monte Carlo of China? The question may seem absurd. For a start, Hong Kong is a commercial city of nearly 7 million people; Monte Carlo a town of just 16,000. Yet Monte Carlo is a metaphor for things that Hong Kong should stand for?quality, wealth, low taxes and a sort of independence. A more obvious comparison might be London, which, despite Britain's decline, has maintained its global status thanks to a multinational population and the determination of its financial markets to see the world as their hinterland...