Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Along with the click of four-color pens and the occasional bleep of the obstreperous cell phone, the newest sound to be heard in Harvard's lecture halls is the click-clack of knitting needles. While it feels a little absurd to place this activity--formerly associated with hearthside grandmothers--alongside the yo-yo and the hula hoop in the ranks of the truly faddish, it's hard not to notice the conspicuous rise of "chicks who knit...
...address the following to those who seek to improve the world. (How maddeningly absurd it is to imagine that I might have lost even one reader just now!) Today I want to express an impassioned plea for each of us to ask ourselves the following questions and to confront our answers earnestly: What would it take for me to unearth, scrutinize and grapple with my deepest motives in life? To reconsider those motives with the most sincere and penetrating will to critique and better myself? To emerge from this introspection with a more enlightened sense of what drives...
...chutzpah of Long Term Capital's principal manager, John Meriwether, is matched only by the unmitigated greed and ignorance of his hedge fund's investors. They took absurd risks, and they deserve to lose! MITCH FALCON New York City...
...Amblad's specialty is looking smashingly absurd in spandex, Green does beautifully in the muumuu/wig roles. His falsetto is worthy of John Klees in all its incarnations--whether doing tongues (as Lavinia), being clueless (Juliet) or portraying Gen X Ophelia drowning herself in a cup of water. When not occupied with his feminine side, Green breaks down the traditional audience/performer boundaries by involving everyone in a "workshoping Ophelia" wherein the crowd chants the various mantras of her id, ego and superego in preparation for her dramatic demise. If there is a prop to be used, Green...
...honor so ritualisticallyingrained and return to her family's homestead inConcord, to a house near Walden Pond. Here sheexpects her children to learn to swim at the famedlocale. The children desert the pastoral settingfor a local pool, and Stuart out of some sense ofrestitution, a keen sense of the absurd and justflat out love of a story, is alright with this andin fact with all that goes on in the novel...