Word: absurdities
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...causes to champion. And when Gianninni beds with a town official's voluminous wife to repay her husband for cuckolding him, even the eyefull of female rear end Wertmuller gives us--sexist as it is--manages to drive home its grotesque point amidst this old order gone modern and absurd...
...make up Al's political style. First, that he is practically a monument in his community lends a security to his ability to continue living a local political life. If someone is pretty certain he can be reelected, he can say things that verge on the outrageous or the absurd, so long as the man himself is not absurd. Second, incumbents find formulas that work for them, and they will stick by them as long as they carry some political benefit. One of the formulas Al lit upon long ago is the home-community-politics nexus...
Back in his suite, Reagan spoke about the future-and, as always, of his credibility. "I still consider myself a nonpolitician, no matter what people think of the Schweiker selection," he said. Now it seemed an almost absurd claim. "My concern through this whole thing," he went on, "has been to retain my credibility." Reagan thought he had done that, but others saw it differently. Said a longtime political supporter in California: "He's lost his place as the high priest of the right. After Schweiker, all he can do is preach unity, not purity." Reagan intends to start...
...praise or blame for this phlebotomous episode was an enigmatic Italian named Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950) who grew up in Portugal and wrote in English. In 47 years he produced 38 sometimes absurd but usually irresistible novels for the cloak-and-sword trade. Over the years they have sold millions of copies and managed to survive six decades and 13 productions of more or less appalling filmflam...
...sillier to climb the world's highest mountain in order to ski down a few thousand feet than it is to climb to the summit in order to plant your country's flag there. Neither is a useful or sensible activity, but both have a certain absurd grandeur about them...