In it Bowie plays Jareth the Goblin King, one of the two main flesh and blood roles in the film, and his performance anchors the absurdity, making the whole thing plausible through sheer force of will.
Stories make things more plausible, more convincing, and more fundable.
In creating his diversion, Cyrano took it as his mission to make impossible things seem plausible.
After what Taylor did to Florida in the first round of the N.C.A.A. tournament's Midwest Regional today, two things seem plausible: every basketball player in the country may think about buying that DVD, and Jordan himself might want one of Taylor.
"The Skripal poisoning, especially, makes things appear plausible that would probably have been dismissed a few months ago".
But what makes an impossible thing seem plausible?
All sorts of plausible things might have happened that would have saved her but did not.
How could they be discussing whether stationery cupboards could be re-categorised as urinals?' John is brilliant at spotting two things that are plausible, putting them together and making a third thing that is ridiculous.
On the face of things, it seems plausible enough: Latvia is supposed to adopt the EU's single currency on Jan 1st 2014 and, after surviving a horrendous recession in 2008-2010, it now boasts the fastest growing economy in the EU.
But Keillor soon starts doing lovely, plausible things with this daughter, allowing her to grow in strength and sympathy (her own and ours) as she decides to celebrate the post-70 Evelyn, "not the Sunday School teacher and Girl Scout leader" but "the old broad who said what the hell and took a lover".
