Word: absurdness
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...from Virginia, who also happened to be auditioning for “The Real Housewives of D.C.” The subsequent Secret Service foot-shuffling occasioned much media meditation on the shortfalls of government security. More thankfully, the story finally traced in bold the parallels between the equally absurd worlds of reality television and politics. Pursuing those connections wouldn’t be such a bad thing, maybe: Michelle always did seem like she could give Tyra a run for her fashion...
...It’s absurd to think that blasting a massive hole in the ground isn’t going to cause a rodent problem,” said Jake Carman, a founder of the Allston Brighton Neighborhood Assembly. “The rats weren’t there before they started construction...
...haunting final scene is certainly a moment of revelation in relief with the story that Refn chooses to tell, but it’s less a moralization than a confirmation of suspicions. Throughout the film proper, however, Bronson remains a living paradox: a submissive sadist, a free slave, an absurd hero...
...result is sheer, brutal anarchy, an absurd and ludicrous hybrid of rugby, dodgeball, basketball, and soccer. Serious injuries abounded among other teams at the Middlebury Quidditch World Cup this past October. One player from Emerson College broke a Chaser’s clavicle, another team’s Beater broke a few fingers, and rumor has it that in a past year’s tournament one player robbed a girl of her cornea. There may truly be no better two words to describe the appeal of the game than those of a Crimson reporter: “badass mayhem...
...eyes like lighthouse beams over the hitched up island, the join of her legs, the triangle of her sex—indescribable animal.” He tells us that the murder and the incident in the toilet “went on recurring, becoming associated, in an almost absurd way, in my memory: first death, then nakedness...