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This movie has everything--comedy, drama, pathos, incredible action, slapstick, great acting, a great story, wildly inventive absurdity, actual thematic threads (a long gone element in US films), moments of sheer poetry, and genuine heart.
In this movie, there may have been a couple humorous parts that I chuckled at, but the minimal laughter that I expressed was usually directed at the complete absurdity of the plot.
Second: Not content to makers of this absurdity is that a bomb has painted a hammer and sickle, the universal emblem of communism coincided with the former Soviet Union.
Unfortunately for the Brexiteers, the effect of these warnings has been counter-productive: instead of triggering an upsurge of preparations, the prospect of aircraft being grounded, hospitals running out of medicines, and exports coming to a standstill have made a no-deal Brexit implausible to the point of absurdity and probably discouraged business decision-makers from wasting money preparing for such an unrealistic contingency.
To understand this polity’s absurdity, consider how American political elites would act under Europe’s current system of representation.
Moreover, China’s increasingly strong commitment to limit and then reduce its emissions is more important than any American backsliding, and Germany’s ability to combine stunning export success with rapid growth of renewables proves the absurdity of the claim that building a low-carbon economy threatens competitiveness.
Romania is often called the Land of Dada, not because one of its sons, Tristan Tzara, was a founder of Surrealism, but because of the absurdity and paradoxes of its daily life, particularly in its politics.
As a promising playwright in the 1960s, he was certainly very “political,” focusing on the absurdity of the regime.
The absurdity need not end there.
The slogan was widely ridiculed, particularly in China, for its transparent absurdity.
To fully appreciate the proposal’s absurdity, consider the extraordinarily successful East European growth model of the past two decades.
These cases will eventually collapse under the weight of their collective absurdity.
But let’s be reasonable: the absurdity of Italy’s presence in the G-8, together with the lack of official membership for countries such as China, India, and Brazil, is no longer acceptable or tenable.
From the perspective of younger Americans, that is certainly an alarming development; in the eyes of Europeans, it is also an economic absurdity.
Is the world really willing to accept such an absurdity?
One needs hardly mention last year’s Mayan end-of-the-world carnival, which shares with the other no-show catastrophes roughly the same level of absurdity.
The North Korean CultNEW YORK – The absurdity of the North Korean dictatorship is easy to caricature.
Any effort to reform Iran’s economy must recognize the costly absurdity of the country’s expansionist foreign policies.
China recognizes the absurdity of the Trump administration’s obsession with forcing it to reduce the bilateral trade surplus.
China’s leaders seem not to be struck by the absurdity of an atheist government choosing a spiritual leader.
But one has to appreciate the historical absurdity.
One only has to recall recent US economic history to confirm the insight of the Italian/Swedish model – and to see the absurdity of claims that Republicans always aim to balance the budget while Democrats always try to spend beyond the country’s means.
Singapore’s first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, is often quoted as having said (as early as 1957) that the idea of a potentially independent Singapore was a “political, economic, and geographical absurdity.”
Debt collection from poor nations is an absurdity, now and into the distant future.
I doubt, however, that celebrities like Miss Bardot will ever recognize the absurdity of their misplaced priorities – to come to a country where millions live in despair and dire conditions, and show concern for only the wild dogs.
In their view, a US president who puts “America first” surely will see the absurdity of spending so much political and financial capital on Israel, which provides little strategic benefit to the US, at the cost of greater instability in the Middle East.
The idea that a future “inflation tax” can stymie the ability of money finance to stimulate aggregate nominal demand is a logical absurdity.
The absurdity here is the idea that all foreign aid should be added to reserves.
Of course, people who really want to be unkind will point out the absurdity of Russia’s membership in a club that includes the giant economies of US, Germany, Japan, England, France, Italy, and (less so) Canada.
By openly inviting the police to jail otherwise respected members of the community, these activists hope to show the absurdity of harsh anti-drug laws.
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