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...Polish-American descended from serfs who lived under the oppression of Russian imperialists, I find this comment so absurd I would laugh if it didn't make me ill. My ancestors were serfs unit 1861, when Alexander II of Russia finally emancipated them. Afterwards, they lived in wretched poverty and were constantly harassed by the Russian government because they were Catholic. My family moved to the United States during the 1930's, where they progressed to just regular poverty and religious discrimination. I grew up in a working-class family of eight and received the same public education that...
...almost absurd to think that a child in kindergarten could read Watterson's strip, blink twice and say, "I don't get it"--that a child would not understand the essence of childhood...
...just listen in on one of the shouted diatribes going on outside Quincy. With a vehemence worthy of a second grade game of dodgeball, armed-to-the-teeth paramilitary forces discuss their complex hors do combat. Particularly problematic is the notion of the "neutral zone." The arms race reached absurd heights this year, as Quincy assassin went from simply being an absurd waste of time to an absurd waste of money, as well. With walkie-talkie headsets and wrist blasters, "Assassin" troopers aspire toward Boba Fett (dude, that was so stupid how he died; I couldn't believe...
...complex version of the calamari appetizer's tomato sauce married the flavors of the fish. There was indeed risotto underneath the shellfish, though it was only made accessible after much digging. Layers of clothing were shed in the grueling process. A word of advice: it is an exercise in absurd and repetitive gluttony to order either mussels or calamari as an appetizer followed by this seafood risotto. Veal Saltimbocca, of questionable relation to its somersaulting, juggling epinome, is scallopinied and topped with melted mozzarella cheese. A fragrant layer of sauteed spinach, sage and bits of prosciutto is sandwiched between...
Having run away from his guardian to avoid an arranged marriage, he joined a law firm in Johannesburg as an apprentice. Years of daily exposure to the inhumanities of apartheid, where being black reduced one to the status of a nonperson, kindled in him a kind of absurd courage to change the world. It meant that instead of the easy life in a rural setting he'd been brought up for, or even a modest measure of success as a lawyer, his only future certainties would be sacrifice and suffering, with little hope of success in a country in which...