Word: ridiculouse
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Yet the low cost of capital may have been East Asia's undoing. Cheap money can make people do silly things. In the 1980s it led them to pay ridiculous prices for stocks and real estate, and the fever spread from Tokyo to Bangkok. But even after the Japanese bubble...
Then how on earth can the master of comedy be upstaged by slimy green goo? Yes, yes, it sounds ridiculous, but that's exactly the case in Disney's Flubber, an update of The Absent-Minded Professor (1961). It is Williams this time who stands agape as the Jello-like...
Because when it's taken on its own terms, of course, Schrab's ridiculous fusion of machismo, humor and popular culture works. And it certainly does generate a lot of attitude. Scud himself realizes this in one of his profounder moments. Meditating that he's one robot protagonist who's...
Criticizing the liberals, however, becomes difficult. As Keillor portrays them, they are either militant freaks of society who fight for ridiculous-sounding causes, or else self-obsessed inner children who whine when they should be working. "New Age music," John grumbles in his head, "[is] relaxation music for yuppies to...
Auden C. Velasquez '01, a student member of the Science subcommittee, said that the subcommittee's Faculty members were impelled to this decision by a feeling that it was "ridiculous" for some students to receive a Harvard diploma after taking only one science class.