Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other friends have been judged as romantic duos in absurd circumstances. Augustine dressed up in a wild outfit to take a female friend out for her birthday and was shocked to find that people took them to be boyfriend and girlfriend. "I was wearing shiny black pants, my platforms and a tight bright blue turtleneck and people assumed we were a couple even though I was outwardly expressing homosexuality," Augustine says...
...funny little voice it is too, with its mix of the banal and the absurd (U.S. STUDENTS LEAD WORLD IN TV JINGLE RECALL; GRECIAN FORMULA FALLS INTO NON-GRECIAN HANDS; HEALTH INSURANCE: ARE YOU PAYING ENOUGH?). It's also one you can expect to hear more of in the future. While the Onion has a circulation of 160,000 (it can be found on newsstands in Milwaukee, Wis., Chicago and Denver, as well as in Madison) and claims 200,000 readers on the Internet www.theonion.com) it will be sold in Borders and Barnes & Noble bookstores nationwide starting this week. Early...
...most of his influence was indirect. Pollock's mature style--based on dripping and flinging skeins of paint onto a canvas flat on the floor, building a web of interaction among line, surface and color from above--was so much his own that to imitate it was self-evidently absurd. Willem de Kooning had shoals of imitators, because his work was grounded in a long European tradition of figure painting. Not Pollock; his central insights were too decisively...
Howard Gardner, along with other education gurus, deserves a large amount of the blame for the low achievement of public school students. Teachers take a shred of truth--in Gardner's case, that students have different aptitudes and learning styles--and manipulate it into the absurd, so that students build boats instead of reading and writing about European settlers. These education theorists have replaced knowledge with process, phonics with whole language, merit with relevance and rigor with self-esteem. As a teacher who plans to retire soon, I shudder to think what the future holds for our youth if these...
...religious heterosexual I feel suited to criticize Hugh Liebert's position on homosexuality. Introducing religion into political debate is unfriendly. Just as I do not expect those who morally disagree with me to study the Parjnaparamita, it is absurd to posit that Christian moralists can only be opposed with Biblical criticism...