Word: absurdities
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Baseball is equally absurd. The sport has been clanging its cowbell for almost 100 years, and a brainwashed American herd still shells out cash every day to get into the pasture. It's time to wake up and start hurling the week-old tenderloin...
...Mandrake is not theater of the absurd. It is not even modern drama. It is a 15th-century Italian play. But at times the director and cast seem to forget this fact, using modern staging and language inappropriately. Often, the perfectly obvious bawdiness of many lines is unnecessarily exaggerated by lude gestures. Lines like, "I had to work off my butt to learn amo, amas, amat" have a disconcerting incongruity to them. And the costuming, an odd blend of blue jeans and Renaissance-like kitsch, is innovative without purpose...
...theoretical physicist named John Stewart Bell restated the problem as a simple mathematical proposition. A young physicist named John Clauser came upon Bell's theorem and realized that it opened the door to testing the two-photon problem in an experiment. Like Einstein, Clauser was bothered by the seemingly absurd implications of quantum mechanics. Says Clauser, now a research physicist at the University of California, Berkeley: "I had an opportunity to devise a test and see whether nature would choose quantum mechanics or reality as we know it." In his experiment, Clauser, assisted by Stuart Freedman, found...
...twice the value of its assets -- often you won't be able to short it after all, because your broker can't find anyone to lend the shares. Or if he can, you get caught in a "short squeeze," in which the stock gets bid up to even more absurd levels by short sellers forced to buy back and return borrowed shares...
...MIGHT be tempted to think that putting a price tag on freedom is absurd, and that both sides are clouding the issue of popular sovereignty by bickering over dollars. Our condemnation doesn't carry much moral force, however, because the Soviets learned their methods from us. If we cheer the Lithuanians for moving towards democracy, then we will be stuck cheering for Gorbachev for the down-and-dirty business practices he has adopted...