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...address the following to those who seek to improve the world. (How maddeningly absurd it is to imagine that I might have lost even one reader just now!) Today I want to express an impassioned plea for each of us to ask ourselves the following questions and to confront our answers earnestly: What would it take for me to unearth, scrutinize and grapple with my deepest motives in life? To reconsider those motives with the most sincere and penetrating will to critique and better myself? To emerge from this introspection with a more enlightened sense of what drives...

Author: By Jonathan T. Jacoby, | Title: Anti-Social Behavior | 11/4/1998 | See Source »

...chutzpah of Long Term Capital's principal manager, John Meriwether, is matched only by the unmitigated greed and ignorance of his hedge fund's investors. They took absurd risks, and they deserve to lose! MITCH FALCON New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 2, 1998 | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...Amblad's specialty is looking smashingly absurd in spandex, Green does beautifully in the muumuu/wig roles. His falsetto is worthy of John Klees in all its incarnations--whether doing tongues (as Lavinia), being clueless (Juliet) or portraying Gen X Ophelia drowning herself in a cup of water. When not occupied with his feminine side, Green breaks down the traditional audience/performer boundaries by involving everyone in a "workshoping Ophelia" wherein the crowd chants the various mantras of her id, ego and superego in preparation for her dramatic demise. If there is a prop to be used, Green...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Smashing in Spandex: Playing it Again at the Loeb Experimental | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...honor so ritualisticallyingrained and return to her family's homestead inConcord, to a house near Walden Pond. Here sheexpects her children to learn to swim at the famedlocale. The children desert the pastoral settingfor a local pool, and Stuart out of some sense ofrestitution, a keen sense of the absurd and justflat out love of a story, is alright with this andin fact with all that goes on in the novel...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bizarre Brahmins Lives Revealed: Cousin Tells All | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...Democrats will think twice about calling witnesses that they at first might want to call." But while Hyde and his colleagues have the power to prevent Democrats from calling any particular witness, they will be hard pressed to exercise it without adding to their image of partisanship. "It's absurd on its face that you wouldn't call the major witnesses," barked Marty Meehan, a Democratic committee member. "There has to be a fair opportunity to cross-examine these people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next Up: The Touchy Subjects | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

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