Word: absurdities
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Glistrup concedes that his political road show is theater of the absurd, noting, "It beats lonesco completely." Still, he touched a raw nerve in the Danes' severely aching economy. Already hurting from 10% inflation, Danes are afflicted with one of the world's highest individual income tax rates. On a graduated scale the tax bite ranges from a minimum of 44% on incomes up to $11,600 to a maximum of 63% on earnings over $21,000. To make matters worse, the government imposed a $1 billion sales tax increase last fall to help balance a $2.6 billion...
Perhaps most important. Reid manages in a fine Irish fashion to carry a story. All the absurd trivialities of plot and subplot--with IRA goons, federal goons, British goons and even a few goons on personal retainer to the President of the United States, all doing their best to run each other over and muddy the storyline--finally mesh together in Hollywood style. Perhaps the setting makes the book more interesting than it really is: having set his story in Cambridge, Reid takes a name-dropper's perverse delight in alluding regularly to parts of the Harvard campus, which...
...staging absurd improvisations with a straight face, Dylan demonstrates just how desperately he wants to hold on to the Woodstock ethos of the counterculture. But times have changed. Of all people , Dylan should know that...
...last bit of rancid emotion should have been drained away. But this is a Conrad tale, and obsession rules. The rigid set of Feraud's shoulders tells the absurd, almost admirable truth: he is just as mad as ever...
...member of the Spartacus Youth League said it was absurd to talk about peace until all the people of the world were free from capitalistic exploitation by the ruling bourgeoisie