Word: oxymoronality
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...Funky Forest - The First Contact is an example of that bizarre, and to me impenetrable, oxymoron: Japanese comedy. Watching this two-and-a-half-hour selection of sketches from a kids? TV show, I felt like a scientist monitoring extraterrestrial signals. What do they mean to the people they?re made for? And is anyone, anywhere, laughing? I think I understand the premise of the sketch about the high-school girl at a tennis lesson who gets a bloodsucker stuck to her arm. It gradually emerges, and we see it?s a small homunculus named Yamada (as in "Ya mada...
...than what you’re supposed to be doing, you are indeed procrastinating. But that doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing. While “productive procrastination,” even in all of its alliterative glory, may at best sound like an oxymoron and at worst an impossible dream, you can indeed make it work for you. The key is that instead of focusing on what you’re not doing (and thus being consumed by guilt and shame), devote your full attention to getting the most out of what...
...cream: for anyone but Sam O. Gilbert ’07, it’s an oxymoron. For him, though, it’s a chemical delicacy. Gilbert has been aspiring to make the contradictory treat after he discovered recipes for the unusual concoction in a blog post from a chef who had used a food-thickening agent called methylcellulose to make hot ice cream. “Methylcellulose precipitates at high temperatures, so you put it in a room temperature [ice cream] mix, it dissolves, and you take a bit and heat it up, put the ice cream...
...reunion. Although these are plausible, one I would not believe is that many Harvard students dream about being a universal sex symbol. Universal sex symbol and Harvard diploma? To paraphrase Hugh Grant in “Love Actually”—Um, would we call that an oxymoron...
Page Six, a column so attentive to veracity that it usually runs on page 12, is the Brangelina of the tattle trade. For gossipists, journalistic ethics can be an oxymoron. Many have accepted meals, jewelry and plane trips from folks hoping for a kind word. And the items they run are not always the truth, not even truthiness. More like speculative fiction--Proust for the prurient...