Word: ridiculouse
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Morgan's assertion that the company hired 300 replacement workers less than two hours after the union vote is ridiculous. The company did not hire any replacement workers until the union rejected the contract offer and indicated that it would not extend the contract. Further, Cardinal informed the union that...
My inventory is sort of like that. It is a record of haphazard events, the serendipity that Jane Jacobs used to say made for a pleasant city. So I jot down the stuff I bump into, or that bumps into me--nature's bewildering accidents, good and bad, ridiculous, astonishing...
All in all, the performances of Cannon and Oh do much toward the production's redemption, but ultimately cannot compensate for the rest of the cast. Much of Bruckmann's singing, when she's not grimacing or missing her note in a dramatic squawk, is also worthwhile, as are many...
This sort of behavior seems strangely at odds with the ideal of the American dream, that perennial occupant of this country's collective unconscious which causes us to love the rags-to-riches, Horatio Alger, class of 1852, sort of underdog who beats the odds and from poor and humble...
While he and Mengers are now friends, Dunne attributes his downfall partly to a wisecrack he made about her and her husband. "I was blackballed after that," he remembers. "It was hilarious at the time." (He won't repeat it.) Mengers counters that she doesn't even know what the...