Word: absurdity
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...Silver Heat” juxtaposes jazzy scat with fat analog bass, and “Mega” swells suddenly into an awesome Wagnerian attack replete with synthetic symphony, choir and ovation. True to their name, Anti-Pop’s music borders on the absurd, thriving on its excesses. Arrhythmia is the consortium’s best work yet, eschewing the muffled bleakness of their debut Tragic Epilogue for an all-out attack on the senses...
...Republicans are right: the original tax bill was absurd, and it’s a shame that conservative Democrats helped it pass. Unfortunately, politicians respond to incentives too, and the people who will pay the full cost of these hidden cuts and accounting tricks aren’t yet old enough to vote. But don’t worry—soon they’ll inherit plenty...
...people insist on making an absurd connection between celibacy and pedophilia [RELIGION, April 1]? These priests do not harm children because priests cannot marry but because they are deviants. If they had just wanted to find sexual pleasure, they could have found willing adult female partners. These men preyed on children, the most naive of their community. Jesus said it would be better to be drowned in the sea than to lead a child into sin. Let these men drown in the sea of prison. TONY LEE LYNN Ida, Mich...
...coups go, Venezuela?s could only be called absurd. The plotters were brash and incompetent, while the U.S. stumbled on the sidelines, appearing at times to welcome the overthrow of an elected government. The whole thing lasted only three days, and in the end, the target of the putsch re-emerged as its conqueror: the once and once again leader, President Hugo Ch?vez...
...fact the costumes become a wonderfully effective tool in bolstering the comic elements of the play. When Bunthorne walks on stage with his beret, black turtleneck and absurd purple and black striped knickers or when the Dragoon Guards make their dramatic change in costume from military uniform to aesthete-in-training frocks, the audience can’t help but roar with laughter...