The quasi-farcical question of British involvement in Operation Bluestar (as Mark Tully pointed out, had the SAS really been involved, it's likely the consequent destruction would have been achieved with considerable finesse) is secondary to the horror that won't go away.
Voters in Chechnya overwhelmingly approved a new constitution last month that affirmed the republic's place within the Russian Federation, but the results of the vote were dismissed by Chechen rebels as farcical and questioned by others in Russia as of dubious value without a negotiated peace.
The question seems farcical, but that's the situation facing Zambia's daily paper, The Post.
These are farcical answers to inane questions, or, viewed another way, one small act in a very long play.
But, in view of its farcical response to my questions about Bangka, I began to wonder how valuable that effort might be.
On balance, expect EMU to happen (see article).A different question is whether a monetary union created under these farcical circumstances can be anything other than a disaster.
His sham beatific image, questioned by almost no one until it collapsed, is nothing if not the farcical reductio ad absurdum of the decade's flimflams, from the cancerous (the subprime mortgage) to the inane (balloon boy).
The cleverest feature was "Everyone Asks Everyone," a farcical meditation on the way information is obtained (or not), in which readers dreamed up questions — for boyfriends, for government agencies — and editors documented the absurd lengths they had gone to for answers.
Its faux-concerned, confessional tone tricks the reader into seeing it as a friendly, supportive space in which your every question is answered, including those that it had never occurred to you to ask, because they're farcical or they give you palpitations.
Though the faithful reader may chastise us for engaging in farcical contrivance, for the shameless use of coincidence and irony and multiple cliffhangers, though even the most credulous reader might question our fantastic -- nay, surreal -- story, we wish to protest that we have simply recounted events as they have unfurled before our own astonished eyes.
