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...Hussein's chief emissary, Tariq Aziz, who accused the U.S. of ignoring Iraq's good behavior and maliciously refusing to lift an economic embargo against Baghdad. Since less than a fortnight earlier Baghdad had menaced Kuwait with more than 80,000 troops, Aziz's remark was disingenuous, if not absurd. The task of pointing this out fell to Madeleine Albright, the American ambassador to the U.N. "Words are cheap," she bluntly declared. "Actions are the coin of the realm...
...crime wave of the most absurd nature has struck Quincy House in the past month. We don't mean stalkers or more fecal smearings. House residents are currently wondering what kind of idiot would steal a foosball...
Your assertion that the decision to move the Foundation Office from University Hall to Thayer Hall was a calculated also at either Dr. Counter or the Foundation is absurd. The proposed move has actually been under discussion for more than a year prompted first, by space issues and by the Foundation's need for access after the building's normal closing hours; and secondly, by the prospective renovation of University Hall in the next year or two. Moreover, Dr. Counter himself will retain an office in University Hall, hardly a step which suggests that the College is trying to punish...
...Easter. I eat one piece a day. Who says you can't control your life?" Explaining how her mother sometimes liked to bake, Gray Sexton states, "If you can bake cookies, you can't be too crazy." The author frustrates her reader, interrupting the flow of emotion with these absurd statements which seem to make light of the situations at hand. When Gray Sexton writes that her mother, in workshops, "never embarassed me [Linda], even when I had written something truly terrible. Never once did she laugh at my nalvete, my cliches, the melodrama...," the reader may wish that...
Although somewhat absurd I will try to delineate a plot to this musical. A beadle known as a schlemiel to everyone (including and especially his wife) gets assigned missionary duties by the village wisemen (read: idiots) only to lose his way and assume another identity. For reasons unexplained and unimportant everything somehow, oddly works out for the better, I think. The end. Cut back to the music; enter Sokol, Airaldi, Levin etal...