She generally places these figures in absurd scenarios or subjects them to cartoonish levels of violence.
The baseball, with Commissioner Bud Selig's name on it, was briefly the subject of a lawsuit, showing how absurd the matter became.
Since then, I've been keeping an eye on the Times's profanity policy, which is at its most absurd when the subject of the article is a four-letter word, as with Jenny Diski's May 20th riff in the Times Magazine.
If you want to read the definitive treatment, there is James Shapiro's more recent "Contested Will," although that book is nearly as absurd as its subject, because using a brain like Shapiro's on the authorship question is like bringing an F-22 to an alley knife fight, and he kind of knows it.
Think about the bigger or more absurd versions of your subject or theme.
"The idea that employees can only tweet on pre-defined subjects is absurd," he said.
I find academic analysis absurd and a good subject for parody.
To think that we are required to pay deference to the founders' views on this subject is absurd.
The Hepworth, to 12 Jun RC Large paintings of brickwork: there is something absurd about such a subject.
It became the subject of absurd controversy and wasn't released in the States for some years.
