Word: absurdly
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...There will be no written retraction," William Li said. "It is absurd and impossible...
...absurd! A school of unshowered, poorly dressed rock stars have done much more for Seattle's reputation than have either the hapless Mariners or Seahawks...
...build the third harbor tunnel was announced a few years ago, my father had predicted with chagrin that it would be named the "Thomas P. "Tip' O'Neill Tunnel." I liked it. The Tip O'Neill Tunnel. The Tip Tunnel. Tip's Tunnel to Town. It has a nice, absurd ring to it--unless, of course, you're a Republican. But in a city so unified on party lines, where Tip O'Neill seems to represent the personal interests of every man, woman and child, Republican governors don't have much choice but to go with the donkey...
...individual designs of the new buildings run the gamut from the functional (i.e.. Currier and Holyoke Center) to the absurd (Science Center, a.k.a. the world's largest camera, and the Carpenter Center). But each building, however, clearly marks a break from the traditional Harvard Style...
Even though both work from the same source, Henri Murger's 19th century novel Scenes de la vie de boheme, where Puccini draws his demi-monde of starving artists with heavy strokes of romantic melodrama, Kaurismaki chooses ironic distance and absurd comedy. The result is a witty but frustrating film, whose saving grace is the beauty of its images of Paris...