Word: absurdness
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...late '80s he fronted Jane's Addiction, the artsy Los Angeles punk-metal outfit. He christened his next group, Porno for Pyros, while flipping through a fireworks catalog. And when he started an eclectic summer music festival complete with freaky sideshow acts, he dubbed it Lollapalooza after hearing the absurd word in a Three Stooges short. Even his stage name is a word twist. Born Perry Bernstein, he renamed himself "peripheral": Perry Farrell...
...debate about whether or not the Internet is the "fastest growing mass medium in history" is absurd. Personally, I'd settle for being the second fastest growing mass medium in history. No one argues that web penetration has been faster than another little gadget known as the telephone. The telephone took five decades to reach 90% penetration. Mass mediums don't go away. That's why they're called mass mediums...
...than to get the studio bosses' approval of the actor to play him. "I fought and fought to have Steve Buscemi. We could have made this film four years earlier if I'd agreed to cast the people they were giving me, like Freddie Prinze Jr.--people who were absurd for the part. Also, we literally got a note, 'Can't we have a double wedding [at the end]?' They were serious. It's unbelievable people don't get a gun and start killing people down there." Zwigoff's stubbornness paid off. "I got the cast I wanted," he says...
DEERFIELD, Ill.—Summers in deepest suburbia are not known for thrill-a-minute excitement, but mine is beginning to border on the absurd...
...Carolina between 1994 and 1999. Despite being widely hailed as exemplars, Kane found that nearly every school in those states would have been considered a failure at some point during that time period. A major problem, he explains, is the requirement that schools must show unremitting annual progress, an absurd statistical goal when scores often fluctuate from year to year, and even from one test-taking session to the next. "In elementary schools when you can have as few as 68 students per grade, there's quite a bit of the luck of the draw involved," says Kane. "Four...