The grandmother left a couple of frantic messages, and when he called back she acted absurdly nonchalant, plunging into a discussion of family "as if the conversation we had five years ago had just left off".
Real crises, like our economy, and real scandal, like the cash for amendments are drowned out in the Greek chorus of it all being bad, it all being The Man. Politicians are forced to always act defensively, absurdly lie that they've never U-turned, pretend they've never ever done anything wrong because they're so afraid of getting crucified if they admit they have.
In December, 1807, at Jefferson's insistence, Congress passed the Embargo Act, a drastic — and absurdly self-destructive — attempt to punish Britain for seizing American merchant ships; the act cut off all U.S. exports to any nation.
It was also good to see Richard Beard's brilliantly original and absurdly compelling Acts of the Assassins (Harvill Secker) make the shortlist – a generic mash-up of detective story and dystopian nightmare, it's a book you'll read in one, frantic gasp.
Third, they would have made whole swathes of language in the Affordable Care Act read more bizarrely and absurdly than anything in the disputed sentence.
"Far From Home" has a tough act to follow after the absurdly wonderful Spider-Verse — nototo mention some explaining to do following the events of the last Avengers.
Knoll is particularly effective as the absurdly smiley reverend in Act 1. Scenic designer Jack Magaw has conjured up a finely atmospheric home, beautifully lit by Thom Weaver.
That argument would absurdly exclude as an act of war a United States nuclear missile attack on Libya featuring ICBMs and SLBMs that incinerated every living thing there.
That is an absurdly low number.
The 1973 act then allows just three weeks, an absurdly short time, for the defense to prepare its case.
