Word: utterness
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...rich. Swift was not promoting cannibalism or infanticide: he thought his audience would understand the absurdity of such ludicrous ideas. Does the New Yorker really believe Obama is a Muslim extremist and his wife a terrorist? No, but the editors thought Americans were smart enough to interpret the utter ridiculousness as an exaggeration - one that fits well into this increasingly overdramatic presidential campaign. Lauren Tighe, Saginaw, Michigan...
...rich. Swift was not promoting cannibalism or infanticide: he thought his audience would understand the absurdity of such ludicrous ideas. Does the New Yorker really believe Obama is a Muslim extremist and his wife a terrorist? No, but the editors thought Americans were smart enough to interpret the utter ridiculousness as an exaggeration--one that fits well into this increasingly overdramatic presidential campaign. Lauren Tighe, SAGINAW, MICH...
...have an immense influence on abstract painting -- What would American artists in the '40s, from Arshile Gorky onward, have done without him? -- and yet it never lost its sense of wonder at the world or ceased to anchor itself in sharp little signs and pictographs denoting the specific. Its utter conviction is furthered by Miro's resort to painstaking, almost old-masterly construction and technical effects: in the mid-'30s he produced a series of tiny oils on copper, such as Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement, 1935, in which grotesqueness and scatology collide with...
Thirteen years and nearly $1 billion later, the FAA had to admit its ambitious program was an utter failure. In 1994, under Hinson, the program was canceled. In spite of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent and the manpower exerted, no new system had been produced, installed or was operating, and every attempt to see the program to its end only prolonged the disaster...
...chose him--after a succession of Presidents: Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Kennedy, as well as explorers Lewis and Clark and inventor Ben Franklin--because he represents a vital tradition in American politics and culture: the comedic commentator on serious matters, the funnyman as our collective conscience who can utter uncomfortable truths that more solemn critics evade. In an election year when so many Americans are getting their news from nontraditional sources, Twain is the godfather of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert as well as the comic voices who influenced them, from Lenny Bruce to Richard Pryor to Kurt Vonnegut...