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...tricks offered range from the classic to the absurd, but are all reasonably priced--almost everything is under $10. Oldies-but-goodies fill the shelves: disappearing ink, joy buzzers, whoopee cushions, two headed nickels, trick decks of cards, finger traps and snakes that pop out of mixed nut cans. They're joined by the less-clicheed instant worms, fake spilled nail polish, a hugely popular rubber brain, fake parking tickets and life-like stick-on faucets...

Author: By Shara R. Kay, | Title: jack attack | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

...article Lee makes the absurd argument that the River Houses are inferior to the Quad Houses because they are infested with centipedes, ivy-covered brick, white moldings, fireplaces and winding stairs. I for one like centipedes. They help to build character...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rebunking the Myth: The Quad Is Indeed in Timbuktu | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

Kuelzer said the charges of racialdiscrimination are absurd...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: GSE Students Accuse Grendel's Den of Racial Discrimination | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...across more and more as a cartoonish attempt at profundity. While he does touch on themes that ring painfully true regarding modern views on death, technology, loneliness and lack of purpose, too often he mixes them with banal platitudes or smart-ass witticisms that reduce his ideas to the absurd...

Author: By Camberley M. W. crick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The First Voice of Generation X Speaks Again | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

When Werner Erhard (born John Paul Rosenberg) founded Erhard Seminars Training, Inc. in 1971, the former used-car salesman from Philadelphia had a hook. Born of the theater-of-the-absurd atmosphere of the late 1960s, est (Latin for "it is") promised to help people get "it," whatever "it" was. Erhard's 60-hour seminars were strenuous ordeals, complete with "body catchers" and barf bags for the weak of mind and stomach. Trainers applauded bladder control and cursed those who didn't get it. Still, Erhard and his message proved popular, even winning celebrity advocates. Then, after two decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of Est? | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

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