Word: tangental
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...episode, Huey’s grandfather (voiced by John Witherspoon, who appears to be channeling his character from “The Wayans Brothers”) gets beaten up by a blind man and challenges him to a rematch. The narrative proceeds to an anime-style tangent comparing the blind man to legendary cinematic swordsman Zatoichi. He is subsequently dubbed the “blind N_____ Samurai...
...minute news conference, despite having a tight format of opening statements and then two questions from each country's press corps, was filled with surreal moments. Roh went off on a tangent in which he propounded an unconventional reading of American Civil War history in explaining his own country's ginger approach to North Korean human rights issues. "I do understand that President Lincoln was quite slow in liberating the slaves in the United States," Roh said. "This was because the President, if he took the lead in this issue, he thought that America would be divided in opinion...
...audience members, some were offended by her heteronormative focus. Before the event, members of RUS discussed with Airs the topics they hoped to cover, as well as the need to respond to a sexually diverse population. Once the seminar began, however, the speaker went off on her own wacky tangent, squirting herself with lubricant and expressing controversial views on rape fantasies. “Some comments made by the speaker were inconsistent with the co-sponsors who organized it,” says Ana Huang ’08, who was one of the organizers. Airs spent little time discussing...
...supposed to push the fat dude onto the train to save those innocent people? Or: What would happen if the whole world farted at once? (Probably everyone would die or the ozone would disintegrate. Either that or…no one would notice!?!?) Like any good philosophical tangent, this one caused us to feel an uncomfortable sense of uncertainty about the world around us. All of a sudden, thoughts like, “Is the human body really 60 percent water?” (seems unlikely) and “Do dogs experience time seven times faster than humans...
...said his paper investigated where tangent lines existed on curves with fractal properties...