Word: ridiculouse
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The soundtrack throughout the film is comically melodramatic. Extravagant orchestrations played at ridiculous volumes signal every scene shift seconds before it actually happens. Inevitably, when the orchestra begins to from a joyful, blaring, Christmas song to a slow, drippy, sentimental ballad, it's time for someone to get really mushy...
The second argument against the proposal is that it would lead to candidates spending ridiculous amounts of money on council elections. (Think of this argument as the "Huffington meets Harvard" point.)
Kaufman implies that Black students flock to the Quad only to be around other Blacks. He implies that Blacks choose to segregate them selves, which in turn will cause hostile racial housing areas. This argument is clearly ridiculous. I once thought that Kaufman, and people like him, did not think...
RIDICULOUS! WHERE DO THESE WESTERN Yahoos get off calling themselves "freemen"? Don't they know we're all bound to pay taxes and obligated to get permits and licenses to do everything but breathe? As for their filing "homespun legal papers," how presumptuous for them to think they can enter...
Chabon's chapters aren't unreadable, but they are unstrung: a series of funny scenes about not writing a novel that somehow don't hang together as a novel. Chabon seems to be winking at friends: Look, here's a ridiculous bit in which Tripp gets the dean of students...