Farce has not been able to answer farce in the case of Trump.
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In Burn After Reading, the spy farce becomes entangled in a parallel sex farce.
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"You can't always get what you want..." What started as farce continued as farce.
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The scandal — or farce — brought some unforgettable oddities.
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For Mr. Enrigue, unlike for Marx, history doesn't repeat itself "the first time as tragedy, then as farce": Instead, history is imbued with farce even in the first go-round.
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In a perverse way, this may herald a revival of a "special relationship" between Britain and the United States, a case of history repeating itself not exactly as farce but as tragi-farce.
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On the one hand, farce and satire work by caricature.
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At this diplomatic level, farce is a precursor to tragedy.
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That thought turns this absurd farce into something deeply meaningful.
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" Why the debate expectations game is a farce "So cute.
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Mr. Célestin has rejected the results as a "ridiculous farce."
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Ah, who are we kidding — it's mostly a complete farce.
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But this scene's delirious blend of farce and violence, like
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This offer of opening #China market is a total farce.
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Related: How long can his war Cabinet tolerate Trump's farce?
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce.
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The deal quickly devolved into farce as oil prices collapsed.
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"They made a farce out of tragedy," Ms. Zakharova said.
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Marinate the turkey: Remove the turkey legs, reserving for farce.
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Make the farce: In a large bowl, combine the ingredients.
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What started as farce had turned into a diplomatic debacle.
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Though the trial was a farce, overturning it took courage.
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Local elections, when they are held, are often a farce.
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We could be in a theatre, watching a dark farce.
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"It is a farce from start to finish," he said.
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But many wildlife experts say this system is a farce.
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" On Broadway, MTM Enterprises produced Michael Frayn's farce "Noises Off.
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She's too slippery for real tragedy, too evasive for farce.
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Despite multiple layers of farce and play, I believed her.
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Two years and a well-deserved Tony Award later, Martin is starring in the Roundabout's production of "Noises Off" (in previews, at the American Airlines Theatre), Michael Frayn's crowd-pleasing farce within a farce.
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Would he hold the trial but turn it into a farce?
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It's the opposite of a fantasy or an adults-suck farce.
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They dance on the critical point where gender becomes a farce.
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Minutes later, Germany's humiliation was completed with a touch of farce.
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Obedient in my farce, I pee again, presenting the stick: PREGNANT.
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A.D. made the game look more like a farce than ever.
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Actually, there is a third category of Nobel Prize: the farce.
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But the day had one more touch of farce to come.
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Peru's electoral farce also holds a wider warning for the region.
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" Kavanaugh has called Swetnick's allegations a "a joke" and "a farce.
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James R. Copland: The farce and tragedy of the confirmation process.
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Boxing purists have said the fight is an over-hyped farce.
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Morality was a farce full of murder, rapes, and love nests.
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Viewers may feel that they are caught in a cruel farce.
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At this point, the strategy has developed an air of farce.
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The piece is, at first glance, a bit of a farce.
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Douglas Adams's cult interstellar farce comes alive in this vivid adaptation.
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And that lesson takes Megyn Kelly's downfall from farce to tragedy.
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"Graduation," written and directed by Cristian Mungiu, is a mirthless farce.
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But in the Trump era, drama and farce are often inseparable.
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His interrogations had been a farce of suspicion, fear, and confusion.
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Feydeau farce bends toward tragedy here, and then bends back again.
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This is all a farce and no Republican should forget that.
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If they want farce, they can rent a Mel Brooks movie.
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Unfortunately the farce of informed consent only worsens in medical research.
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The standoff is deadly serious, but it occasionally descends into farce.
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It's not totally a farce, but it's kind of a farce—the games themselves are glorified scrimmages, but given that they're played by 6.53 of the world's best basketball players, there's plenty of entertainment to be found.
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Online, some compared the farce to the disaster that was Fyre Festival.
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She dismissed Maduro's proposal of an early parliamentary election as a "farce".
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It seems a farce because of the inexperience among Trump's inner circle.
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Political farce is weird: It's both comedy and drama — or maybe tragedy.
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Now, a putative deal with Foxconn of Taiwan has descended into farce.
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It's important, when possible, not to let tragedy repeat itself as farce.
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The subsequent farce plays out as an intriguing and precarious comedic experiment.
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The records are a lie and this tournament has descended into farce.
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Accordingly, the international community considers the so-called Crimean referendum a farce.
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What to Expect: A do-over of the first season as farce.
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Indeed, farce as a genre depends upon handle-rattling, hinge-wearying antics.
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"The deal is a bit of a farce," one OPEC source said.
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The potential for either violence or farce lurks just under the surface.
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Marx noted that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.
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On Pro Football The long national farce known as Deflategate has ended.
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My memories now converge as a tableau of farce, like the above.
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"This conversation about bodycams is a complete and utter farce," she said.
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Mindy Kaling dishes about her own follicular farce: She wears hair extensions.
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Every single observer of this trial has agreed it was a farce.
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But Democrats say that constraints on investigators could make it a farce.
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What had played first as farce would have played second as tragedy.
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It's a bravura performance in which war becomes farce, history becomes burlesque.
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Brainwashing was a farce, a scientific impossibility, and indoctrination can be positive.
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As Marx observed, history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.
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Mr. West dismissed that label but proudly described the show as farce.
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We're not going to turn it into a farce or political theater.
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All this sounds like a rousing social farce, and so it is.
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The case has mixed high-stakes international diplomacy with elements of farce.
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For decades, FARA was closer to farce than any kind of force.
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Jo TraffordPortland, Me. To the Editor: The impeachment "trial" was a farce.
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He insisted all along that the trial and charges were a farce.
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What happens when history repeats but it was farce the first time?
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" In the WDRB News interview, Schnatter described his ousting as a "farce.
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"I cannot participate in a farce like this," said Zaki Mohamed, 45.
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Some goofy, corny farce is part of the theatricality and the fun.
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"In any case, the current farce has made China vigilant," the editorial read.
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Throwing my name out there with it makes the whole thing a farce.
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The trial of the two journalists was a farce, orchestrated by the military.
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A majority of Americans are disgusted with the political farce we are enduring.
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Heralded for its Keatonesque humor, the Fall series oscillates between farce and tragedy.
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Robert Charles: Here&aposs how Trump can end the whole Mueller investigation farce .
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Expecting this degree of medical care at a detention camp is a farce.
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On Friday evening, he foreshadowed the next target of his elaborately staged farce.
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What was originally a misfortune has turned into Samsung's own self-harming farce.
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Yet the risk of becoming inured to this farce constitutes a separate danger.
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Mark Sanford's first departure from the political scene took the form of farce.
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This could be a perverse, hilarious situation, a freaky farce about taboo emotions.
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And, the media coverage of getting to "the truth" has been a farce.
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The play, an absurd farce, was one way he grappled with this problem.
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"I am not going to attend this theater, this farce," Mr. Ramos said.
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To his credit, acknowledging it as a farce gave it a certain credence.
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The victims in this tragic farce are our sons, daughters, spouses and grandparents.
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To me, it felt like a farce, or a meta-commentary on documentary.
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On Twitter, people used farce, sham or stunt to describe what had happened.
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"Boondocks" depicts Riley's rhetoric as poisonous and the trial as a scathing farce.
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There are more flung-open doors in "Candy" than in a Feydeau farce.
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Many purists saw the contest as a farce, nothing more than an exhibition.
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There are points of low farce where it's a little on the nose.
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A mere 20 years after the Borgia Pope's "intacta!" farce, the Reformation began.
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The patience of the European Union with the British farce is about exhausted.
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Both trials, of Emmett's alleged killers and Louis's alleged crime, were a farce.
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BoJack is unquantifiable — it's comedy, tragedy, satire, farce, absurdism, realism, magical, and devastating.
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"This is a farce!" the man chanted repeatedly as the crowd surrounded him.
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The Washington Post's effort to keep the Trump dossier alive borders on farce.
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"What a farce," wrote Philip Klein, managing editor of the conservative Washington Examiner.
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Still, there were scenes out of a Feydeau farce at Kahn's Philadelphia offices.
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It seemed to her, as it had to Amrhein, like a political farce.
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Washington (CNN)Electability, many liberal Democrats will tell you this cycle, is a farce.
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As often as this looks like farce, we should not forget it's a tragedy.
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Weiner plays like a raucous political farce (and it just keeps getting more farcical).
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UKIP's chairman said the situation was unfortunate, but he "wouldn't call it a farce".
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His consulta, administered by his party rather than the electoral commission, was a farce.
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This, Mr Becker said, should end the "farce" of his being pursued by creditors.
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He just lives and breathes hoops, there's no potential other reason for this farce.
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FAIRFIELD "No Sex Please, We're British," comedic farce by Anthony Marriott and Alistair Foot.
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After the farce in Rio, the committee is desperate to appear tougher on doping.
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Defendants made these comments knowing they were untrue to distract from Mr. Smollett's farce.
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If the play's first act is toothless satire, its second is rip-roaring farce.
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"It appears to be a farce and a sham," Avenatti said of the investigation.
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AND FINALLY ... May the farce be with you Another day, another "Star Wars" video.
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The farce has not reflected well on AIBA's recent rule changes, introduced in 2015.
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It's not exactly the only joke or farce going around on Facebook this election.
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The farce of "giving birth" only makes the whole ordeal all the more traumatic.
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It's a total and complete farce," Bannon said in an interview on "60 Minutes.
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" Kavanaugh called the allegation a "farce," and Trump has attacked Avenatti as a "lowlife.
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The most popular opposition leaders have called the process a farce and stayed away.
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"The U.N., begun as a moral force, has become a moral farce," he said.
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Will anyone be held accountable for the lies and leaks that launched this farce?
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Did he find acceptance in this moment, or in ANY moment of this farce?
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Perhaps the biggest problem with the "protests" is that they rapidly descend into farce.
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This film by Serge Bozon is two parts deadpan farce, one part conceptual mystery.
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This film by Serge Bozon is two parts deadpan farce, one part conceptual mystery.
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That shameful farce nearly bled into the regular season, and players have never forgotten.
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It may look like a farce, but it is also regarded as sound strategy.
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Goofball farce and existential despair are by no means incompatible in this antic world.
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"From tragedy to comedy to farce," tweeted American passenger Matthew Smith, pulling no punches.
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The farce is played out all over the U.S., sometimes causing anti-social behavior.
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A judge called it "a farce," and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.
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A scene like this could get laughs as nothing but brittle, door-slamming farce.
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"This whole class is turning into a farce," Cramer said, referring the 2019 IPOs.
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"The two trials are simply a farce," the letter signed by the bishops said.
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Guaido argues that Maduro is illegitimate because his 2018 re-election was a farce.
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He cited onerous reporting requirements, "farce" shareholder meetings and the threat of potentially "crippling" litigation.
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But now I know that the idea of equality in this country is a farce.
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Like, some fantasy was lifted and I knew that it was all just a farce.
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" On Friday, independent special counsel William Forsyth said Nassar's statements of remorse "were a farce.
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Former special counsel Robert Mueller's congressional testimony on Wednesday was a farce and a tragedy.
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FAIRFIELD "No Sex Please, We're British," comedic farce by Anthony Marriott and Alistair Foot. Feb.
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Equally remarkable is Mr Aronofsky's ability to maintain a degree of levity bordering on farce.
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Many called the elections a farce and vowed not to show up at the polls.
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IT WAS political theatre—epic for some, farce for others and tragic for many more.
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Cole himself appears as a character in Vincente Minnelli's 1957 marital farce "Designing Woman" (Thursday).
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"It&aposs just amazing to me they make such a farce of this," said Sen.
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Ross Douthat, a conservative, went a little easier, saying he is more farce than tragedy.
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Diving into that subject would have turned an already terrible energy speech into a farce.
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Yes, of course, but the Al Gore defined global warming is a farce, it is.
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It combines the frenzy of farce with the creeping incremental detail of kitchen-sink realism.
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" He spoke definitively about the allegations in his testimony last Thursday, calling them "a farce.
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The sense of vulgar farce continues as the women twitch and flop on the ground.
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" Kavanaugh called the allegation a "farce," and Trump has attacked Avenatti as a "low-life.
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But real strippers who have actually worked in these clubs know that that's a farce.
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But as in an Alan Ayckbourn farce, the play's increasing absurdity arises from natural causes.
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Do not approach the security fence and do not participate in Hamas's life-threatening farce.
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The movie's bankrupt idea of farce is just generous enough to make room for her.
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She got lots of negative feedback from folks who didn't realize the collection's a farce.
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"The Royal We" shifts its setting to American suburbia, and its tone to marital farce.
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But by Sunday the Democrats were dismissing the investigation as a farce — and rightly so.
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Critics said the news proved that Amazon's hunt for a new headquarters was a farce.
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The effect is of a Feydeau farce reimagined in the American backyard of Booth Tarkington.
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"Straight Up" seems to recognize that such a setup is riper for tragedy than farce.
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And that's what has Republicans like Watkins saying the opposition to Pelosi is a farce.
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We're not going to turn it into a farce, into some kind of political theater.
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The magic fades further as Annie realizes what a farce this hero gig can be.
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Speakers called the election, which polls show incumbent Vladimir Putin should easily win, a farce.
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"Repetition of this circus turns it into a farce," said senior SPD lawmaker Ralf Stegner.
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The public was entitled to a substantive conversation about public financing; instead, it got farce.
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Among the genres traversed are farce, adventure, social realism, puppetry, Japanese drama and YouTube documentary.
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Has America become a "Trumpocracy," and is what we're watching a tragedy or a farce?
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He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the next six times as farce.
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That is the farce of Cooperstown, and more specifically the Baseball Writers Association of America.
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HBO's hitman farce Barry pulled in 218, Amazon's stand-up period piece The Marvelous Mrs.
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So far, this has played out, within the safe space of a presidential campaign, as farce.
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I think throwing my name out there with it makes the whole thing an absolute farce.
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"As you know this impeachment farce is growing worse by the day," Bennett as Pence said.
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But you're better off saving that outrage for the media complex that first created this farce.
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Rashida Jones cuts up in "Angie Tribeca," the new cop farce from Steve and Nancy Carell.
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On November 7th the central government made clear that it was in no mood for farce.
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The farce of whelk is layered between sheets of pasta dough, which is made with seaweeds.
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Meanwhile, Assad won re-election in polls dismissed by many around the globe as a farce.
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Over the past week we have witnessed the Trump transition unravel from farce to horror show.
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China, which had refused to participate in the proceedings, responded by calling the ruling a farce.
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Today, as Groucho Marx foretold, history has repeated itself first as tragedy and then as farce.
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The notion that Trump has sincere concerns about corruption, at home or abroad, is a farce.
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Kavanaugh vehemently denied the allegations, calling them "a complete farce" in his testimony two weeks ago.
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But Tracey's experience makes me wonder if the entire consumer electronics repair industry is a farce.
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It all turns to farce, and we're treated to a showdown in the classic Hollywood tradition.
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Rather, it is a farce in the tradition of the Coen Brothers movie Burn After Reading.
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The farce in Tianjin serves only to highlight the heroism of people who believe in democracy.
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We shorts really just want to see an end to this farce, one way or another.
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This phenomenon of a growing, rather than decreasing, number of refugees is of course a farce.
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A farcical controversy that is in fact part of a large farce that everything is fine.
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Not the kind of pro forma, minute-long farce that usually passes for a bail review.
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Beau Willimon's play, which resets an 1885 French farce in present-day Washington, exits the Beltway.
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So as a counterpoint to Frum's argument for tragedy, let me make the case for farce.
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It's effectively startling, but it makes a farce out of something that shouldn't need much goosing.
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Plymouth Rock is the hapless subject of a national farce, an unworthy victim of mistaken identity.
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Ms. Parks can't find a groove for the farce or a steady gear for the tragedy.
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At the very least, features like Smart Delivery make plain the farce we've been living with.
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And we're not going to turn it into a farce, into some kind of political theater.
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Her work has long been a balancing act between satire and farce, between observation and cliché.
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" Kavanaugh has dismissed Swetnick's allegations as a "farce," and Trump has attacked Avenatti as a "lowlife.
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The drama is no longer a tragedy but a fairy tale—almost, at times, a farce.
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Schiff's comments came shortly after Republicans derided the impeachment inquiry as a farce built on hearsay.
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He has called the allegations "a farce" and said he'll run in next year's presidential election.
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"There's this farce of an idea that the justice system treats everyone the same," she said.
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With the news conference's atonement portion behind him, the farce reached its ceiling — or its cellar.
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Léger, though not himself a Dadaist, made much of the machine, but little of sex farce.
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It is conservative elites, and only conservative elites, who have the power to end this surreal farce.
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Yet six months into his administration, Trump has repeatedly proven his LGBTQ-friendly attitude was a farce.
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Carriers are racing to bring 5G to more cities, even if the race itself is a farce.
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Since its referendum success UKIP has not just lost its main purpose but also descended into farce.
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American Kingpin is written as a drama, but so many events in Ulbricht's life read as farce.
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It's time to bring this drama – or perhaps we should call it a farce – to a close.
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"It's people doing an impression of having a conversation … I don't like the farce," Schumer told Stern.
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The Syrian opposition leaders became a bit of a five-star farce, lounging around in luxury hotels.
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It is a farce that the old men of FIFA refuse to let you play on grass.
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This is, as Smith pointed out in the same Weekly Standard piece, a bit of a farce.
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Michael Avenatti says the Kavanaugh FBI investigation is a 'farce and is being run by Donald Trump'
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JOHN RODAKISFounderN of One: Autism Research FoundationDallas, Texas "A dangerous farce" (April 9th) misconstrued Peru's electoral process.
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A candidacy that was first thought of as a colossal joke has turned into a serious farce.
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The players met in Baguio City, the Philippines, in a title match that had elements of farce.
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My memories now converge as a tableau of farce; so, here are 29 memes roasting Silicon Valley.
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If you are a conservative and love Judge Moore, you know these allegations are a political farce.
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Following this Keystone Cops farce, a national labor union encouraged the employees to stage several public protests.
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Marx was right about that at least: When history repeats itself, tragedy pops up again as farce.
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Beijing has dismissed the case as a farce and accused Washington of fueling tensions in the region.
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I'm over them, long past being broken up about seeing Bumblebee et al reduced to this farce.
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Sometimes, as Marx observed, history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
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Opposition leaders have denounced the March election as a "farce" and urged Egyptians to boycott the vote.
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"In a weird way," Mr. Norcott said, "the sense of farce is something that brings us together."
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If Trump is a fascist, Marx was right: History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.
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"The whole thing has been a farce from the very beginning," she said by phone from Britain.
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Taika Waititi's new film mixes farce, fantasy and drama in a Nazi-era coming-of-age story.
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The screening turns into a mild farce, but it stirs something in Salvador, lighting a small fire.
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"We in India have played out our version of this dark farce for three years," he writes.
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It also helps us understand the specific kind of danger the impeachment farce is warning us about.
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Asian allies will worry this indicates diplomacy is a farce and that military action is more likely.
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The great drama of the Russia investigation has turned out to be a dark Coen brothers farce.
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Many of his greatest moments play out like slapstick farce, leaving pratfalling defenders littered across the pitch.
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I also pointed out that the concept of a "neutral interest rate" was a Fed public relations farce.
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Though nowhere to the tune of $15 million, winning this farce likely did not come cheap for Masnick.
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His novels encompass the visionary intensity of "The Four Books", and the transgressive farce of "The Explosion Chronicles".
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That ruckus came after the farce of its previous leader resigning after just 18 days in the job.
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"Crisis" contains moments of mirth, particularly in the later episodes when the action unravels and descends into farce.
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"[T]he whole thing is just a crock, farce, wrong, didn't happen, not anything close," Kavanaugh told investigators.
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Game Night has tighter, more farce-like scripting to go with its droll spoof of David Fincher movies.
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So, Rosenstein is trying to make himself hard to be a hero but it&aposs a total farce.
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Lula's Workers Party called the ruling a "farce" orchestrated by Lula's enemies to stop him returning to power.
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Who can forget his observation that history repeats itself, "the first time as tragedy, the second as farce"?
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Cole himself appears as a character in Vincente Minnelli's 1957 marital farce "Designing Woman" (Friday and Feb. 4).
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The political system is a farce piled on a tragedy -- as this weekend's sham parliamentary elections will demonstrate.
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Nevertheless, the miners were occasionally able to see the funny side of proceedings when they descended into farce.
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This special session, where Berger and Moore rammed through hastily-crafted legislation was a farce of public policy.
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That's unusual for a Coens farce, but it's a mark of how successfully the characters in Hail, Caesar!
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He's just taking a step back, and pointing out that the way NFL regulates violence is a farce.
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" The title is a farce, given that Council publicly stated that they "would not rescind Mr Bongo's award.
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For her to get away with that would be more than a farce; it would be an obscenity.
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Legal farce China's embrace of forced confessions is a mockery of its rhetoric of the rule of law.
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" The next day, Roger Cohen, of the Times , described the contradictions of Trump's foreign policy as a "farce.
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" Tlaib, the first Palestinian woman elected to serve in Congress, said the claims against her "are just farce.
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There are spasms of farce and throbs of melodrama, but they arise within the rhythms of everyday behavior.
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The AL's unrelenting campaign of political repression made any idea of a level electoral playing field a farce.
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But as enjoyable as that version was, it didn't quite reconcile its screeching turns between farce and melodrama.
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Beijing has dismissed the case, brought by the Philippines, as a farce and accused Washington of fuelling tensions.
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Marx's oft-quoted line that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce, is a good example.
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China's state-sponsored media warp reality to cohere to Communist Party doctrine -- and thus turn truth into farce.
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Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard took to Twitter to describe the allied push against terror money as a "farce".
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There is so much stupidity that I hardly know where to begin; but let's start with the farce.
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AG Barr's press conference was a farce and an embarrassing display of propaganda on behalf of President Trump.
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If Mr. Scott used his collection to comment on current conditions with a bit of fashion farce, Mrs.
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But "The Closet" abandons some of Mr. Veber's logic in trying to pump itself into a socko farce.
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We're in danger of playing out that old saw (apparently from Marx?) of history repeating itself as farce.
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The political maneuverings between Psychlos devolve into the stuff of an Armando Iannucci farce but without the yucks.
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The week that ended in a collective shrug had otherwise been a time of reflection, confusion and farce.
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It spilled over on Twitter, of course, which is bad and dumb; eventually, it quickly became a farce.
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The Amazing Johnathan Documentary is a farce about the business of making documentaries, especially ones that profile celebrities.
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"What begins in farce ends in cruelty," John Leonard of The New York Times wrote in his review.
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These high jinks read like farce but hit like poison, as tainted drugs daily enter patients' bloodstreams worldwide.
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There is no real reason to cut these payments, other than to save face and conceal the farce.
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But while it's a fact that they've been dealt a bad hand, it's a farce that he has.
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Critic's Notebook In the explosive impeachment-hearing appearance by Gordon Sondland, drama and farce were never far apart.
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Otherwise we will repeat this farce in 2020, and I believe that the results will be the same.
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The argument of the bussed in students not having as much time to do homework is a farce.
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They got caught orchestrating this entire farce with the Whistleblower and lying about their secret meetings with him.
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Mischief Theater's metafictional farce about an amateur dramatic troupe trying to stage a murder mystery pratfalls onto Broadway.
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For its part, the Chinese foreign ministry told the BBC the claim was a "farce" created by Humphrey.
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Russian athletes will have to fulfill "strict conditions" to enter the Winter Olympics, which is a complete farce.
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I am proud of the four career prosecutors who walked the walk and walked away from this farce.
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Antic, profane and riveting, these mural-like scenes replayed history as farce and masqueraded tragedy as depraved comedy.
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"People, Places & Things" is a kind of inverted farce, with all the doors slamming in the other direction.
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It's a kind of slamming-door farce staged from outside the place where all the doors are slamming.
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Because Trump fired the FBI director who the IG acknowledges had no business being FBI director is a farce.
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The summit in Bahrain last week at which Jared Kushner unveiled his economic blueprint for peace was a farce.
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The whole thing was a farce—just another one of Cameron's poor attempts try to appease the far right.
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Durov didn't want to "legitimize a blatant farce with their presence," his lawyer Pavel Chikov told the Financial Times.
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But there were also moments so absurd that they transcended mere farce to enjoy a kind of comic immortality.
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Beijing rejects the court's jurisdiction over its maritime claims in the strategic seaway, and called the case a "farce".
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Beijing has called the court ruling a farce and several Chinese celebrities have spoken up against the court's decision.
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Turns out that most of the biggest political maneuvers in Game of Thrones Season 7 finale were a farce.
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All of this proved that viewers were finally ready for comedy that blurred the lines between reality and farce.
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The Palestinian threat that such a move will derail peace talks is farce at best and delusion at worst.
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I don't think we have even begun to understand the consequences of this dangerous and irresponsible farce in Britain.
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The committee was repeatedly interrupted by cries of "regular order" as the hearing descended into low comedy and farce.
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It's all too ridiculous to comprehend, but the farce seems to be lost on Chawla and writer Aseem Arora.
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This entertaining farce, packed with comic characters, displays his usual darkly funny style and appreciation for Florida's endless idiosyncrasies.
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" Kavanaugh has dismissed Swetnick's allegations as a "farce," and Trump has attacked her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, as a "lowlife.
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The reason for this passivity goes, I think, to a second failure: We wrongly treated Trump as a farce.
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That the role is allotted to a grown woman only increases the opportunities for sophisticated humor and low farce.
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That initiative, dismissed by most Democrats as a farce to advance GOP efforts to suppress the vote, faltered badly.
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" It continues: "Your 'honorary' degrees, your Nobel prize (what a grim farce) and other awards will not save you.
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But he's found a substitute of sorts with daily White House coronavirus briefings that have quickly descended into farce.
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Once the trials became a farce and were no longer useful to the government, they were dropped and forgotten.
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This is a farce, and the university could amend it simply by recognizing the need—and actually supporting it.
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He will be spared the farce of Jared Kushner's ideas about peace, should they ever issue from His Languidness.
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In January, Mr. Malkovich raised hackles after he described "Bitter Wheat" as a "black farce" on BBC Radio 4.
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Elections remain a farce, with the ruling party receiving nearly 100 percent of the votes in elections this month.
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He advocated the hiring of Anthony Scaramucci for the White House's communications operation; that was the stuff of farce.
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"We're not going to turn it into a farce, into some kind of political theater," Biden said last week.
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The director, Hugh Ross, adds a soupçon of farce to the percolating proceedings, keeping his busy cast on point.
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The claim that removing the United States from the Paris accord will prevent industrial job losses is a farce.
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Scheduled productions include a dark, romantic farce and a riff on Sam Shepard's "True West," inspired by former Gov.
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"Invitation to a Beheading," in which Nabokov treats us to, then liberates us from, the bad farce of totalitarianism.
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The common belief that Medicare will cover the vast majority of health-care expenses in retirement is a farce.
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His mesmerizing, acid soliloquies on clock repairing and climate despairing and small-town farce have no analogue in fiction.
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Mr. da Silva, 71, who has called the charges against him a "farce," has been planning a political comeback.
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Should our party be dissolved, the next general election would be a farce, and the next government, a fraud.
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" Senator Bernie Sanders, independent of Vermont, said the "so-called conference committee," as he put it, "is a farce.
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Video games as a whole had few female characters, and those that did were riddled with sex and farce.
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The star-studded performance was surreal and unsubtle, but somehow fitting for a political era of tragedy-as-farce.
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These comprise of found color comic strips taken from newspapers, most of which contain some element of sexual farce.
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On the contrary, he is far more flexible in his attitudes, bending gothic overtures into pastiche, parody, and farce.
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I was proud to cast my first ballot, but I also watched the news about Florida's recount descending into farce.
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That's a shame because Henson is obviously game for both righteous fury about inequality and goofing around with bedroom farce.
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There is always a danger of such relentless farce growing tired, particularly when a film runs for almost three hours.
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There will be two hearings on Libra, and given the slapstick nature of Libra's introduction to date, I expect farce.
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Beijing says the ruling has no bearing on its rights in the sea, and described the case as a farce.
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It is almost as if somebody pulled the curtain back and exposed the world for the farce it really is.
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So let's talk a little bit about that idea of the farce of Silicon Valley and how it displays itself.
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Opposition figure and former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles sent a tweet dismissing the weekend training program as an expensive farce.
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We'd venture to say any bath bomb lacking in one of those categories would be nothing more than a farce.
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Otherwise, we'll go on living the farce in which a week with four mass shootings is somehow a good one.
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And for Obama to repackage himself at this late date as America's last-ditch defender against Russia is a farce.
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Pyongyang's state media lashed out at the rallies as a "never-to-be-condoned farce of confrontation with fellow countrymen".
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On the plus side, this whole farce could redeem itself if Donald Trump screens Mulholland Drive in the White House.
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But the summit—and particularly its immediate aftermath—was a farce, and the respite is only likely to be temporary.
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The brothers' getaway is a farce, and Nick winds up in custody, where other miscreants take spiteful advantage of him.
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" Likewise, Brennan Center for Justice president Michael Waldman said the commission "started as a tragedy and ended as a farce.
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Nunes, who helped to unravel the Russia collusion farce, has identified five buckets of information he'd like to see released.
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But Gervais expands his premise into an international farce with global implications, and the film's size doesn't fit those ambitions.
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"This commission started as a tragedy and ended as a farce," Brennan Center president Michael Waldman said in a statement.
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And perhaps somewhere inside this movie lives a farce that reckons with white indifference in the face of national catastrophe.
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And while real tragedy may arrive eventually, in this historical cycle a dismal sort of farce is what comes first.
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"The idea that there aren't interventions before this is turned over to law enforcement is a complete farce," he said.
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It was 1969, and Donald had a part in a French farce at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
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Small movies like the Fox Searchlight farce "Jojo Rabbit" cost less than $20 million and often aim for awards recognition.
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What happened next is a prime example of why many inmates consider the prison disciplinary system to be a farce.
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It turned out to be kind of a farce because they never got the film, so they couldn't show it.
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"Nobody gives a damn — this is a farce," he told us, gesturing at the gawkers taking photos of the body.
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But those who reacted similarly blasted the "farce" of the verdict as well as Trump's continued support for the Saudis.
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That's the reassurance, and it's a context that's necessary for the success of the show's kind of rationally plotted farce.
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Putin won nothing but a farce, in which his best possible opponent was jailed and the numbers were likely fraudulent.
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But while Ready or Not posits wealth and privilege as a violent horror show, Knives Out paints it as farce.
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During the five days of the farce, we kept hearing from people desperate to speak to the FBI, including Ford.
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IF HISTORY repeats itself first as tragedy and then as farce, it continues thereafter as endless iterations of Greek debt dramas.
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The man called it a "farce" that Chapman was no longer considered to be too dangerous to be on the street.
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But it goes to show just how deeply engrained this man has become in the farce that is the Trump presidency.
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David Knezek of Dearborn Heights was clear about where he stood: "This plan is a farce," WDIV quoted him as saying.
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It's the old friction related to the most basic physical actions of this work, an old tragedy resurfacing now as farce.
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The New Zealand director Taika Waititi's new film mixes farce, fantasy and drama in a Nazi-era coming-of-age story.
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Chaffetz has called global warming "a farce," and just this week co-sponsored a bill to abolish the Department of Education.
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Instead of creating new language to legitimately wrap our heads around the swiping universe, we've turned this practice into a farce.
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Bangladesh's ruling party, the Awami League, won a third five-year term in an election the opposition denounced as a farce.
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"The six months that I was there it all resembled a farce and clowning around—it was true postmodernism," he said.
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All this could make for a stellar farce on the order of Dr. Strangelove, Charlie Wilson's War, or In the Loop.
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" Why the debate expectations game is a farce In 2007 Gore looked back and said: "The sighs, the sighs, the sighs.
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The democracy of the Galactic Republic is a farce, because the voters of the Republic have no idea what's going on.
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The idea of training your hair to be less greasy may seem like a bit of a farce, for obvious reasons.
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It was a bit of a farce, with punch-ons in the crowd and a general shithouse vibe throughout the night.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)Less than two weeks ago, the idea of a high-quality bendable phone seemed like a farce.
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He told Fox News the idea that Democrats will sweep the elections in Nevada during the general election is a farce.
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"NCP is not listening to anyone, not healthcare specialists, not constitution specialists... The negotiations are a farce," she wrote on Facebook.
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Rio police similarly shouted out the efforts of Rio police ... saying they uncovered the "farce" of the Team USA swimmers' story.
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Satire seemed to be the most appropriate way to tackle a subject poised on a knife edge between tragedy and farce.
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If you are a liberal and love Al Franken, would you decide—indeed, know—that these allegations are a political farce?
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"Today's exercise is a pointless farce that will deceive no one," said CNRP's former leader Sam Rainsy on Twitter on Sunday.
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But the polish and panache of the staging, directed by John de los Santos, keep the farce from ever seeming amateurish.
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At this point, with more women coming forward every day, even holding another hearing on his nomination would be a farce.
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Rashida Jones returns as a straight-arrow, tough-cookie Los Angeles police detective in Steve and Nancy Carell's pun-filled farce.
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Pipe 3 ½ ounces of the farce under each breast, and use your hands to spread it evenly across the breast. 3.
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"History is said to repeat itself as tragedy and farce, but here it registers as a full-blown burlesque," she added.
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To Mr. Gardner, the entire hearing was a farce, another charade by Democrats determined to ruin the president and his candidate.
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Next up: a sex farce, in which Cole and Noah marvel at Anton's sexual prowess, audible through the thin motel walls.
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Like all of Wodehouse's best tales, "Uncle Fred Flits By" is utter nonsense, a tightly plotted farce made of thin air.
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And they also "succeeded in turning the tragedy in Salisbury into a farce," said Mr. Pomerantsev, the former Russian television producer.
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"The Goat" has always walked a shaky tightrope between farce and tragedy, and this version often leans dangerously toward the cartoonish.
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A farce involves going in and out of doors, up and down stairs, and usually a lover is in a wardrobe.
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Lula da Silva's Workers Party called the ruling a "farce" orchestrated by his enemies to stop him from returning to power.
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And about Alexander Payne's "Downsizing," a genial, barbed parable of consumerism, environmental crisis and social inequality disguised as a dystopian farce.
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"Deacon King Kong" is many things: a mystery novel, a crime novel, an urban farce, a portrait of a project community.
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"We're not going to turn it into a farce or to some kind of political theater," Biden replied, rejecting the suggestion.
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The spectacle of the left devouring its own children — and of emancipatory liberalism turning into its opposite — may read as farce.
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And while Trump announced a "permanent ceasefire" between Turkey and the Syrian Democratic Forces, we know this ceasefire is a farce.
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When the Irish playwright Dion Boucicault was barely out of his teens, he wrote a farce that tickled most of London.
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The film has some elements of farce, but never makes the sexual desires of the 50-something women the punch line.
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Everybody in this musical, about beached stage actors who crash a small-town dance, worked with an astonishing sense of farce.
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In between, the playwright Heinrich von Kleist wrote his tragicomedy "Amphitryon" (1807), based on Molière's 1668 farce of the same name.
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The fabulous fabulist David Ives adapts Pierre Corneille's 17th-century farce about a truth-challenged charmer and his helplessly honest servant.
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That strike bled into the next season, when owners turned spring training into a farce by fielding teams of replacement players.
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The agreement, which to critics is a bit of a farce itself, has turned the sale into a three-act melodrama.
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The Taliban's track record proves it would be a "farce" to treat them as a reliable partner in negotiations, said Roggio.
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Am I single by choice, or have I just deluded myself into believing the farce that I am "focusing on myself"?
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The opposition, which considers the vote a farce meant to consolidate Maduro's power, accused him of trying to grab the spotlight.
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Talking to the camera is a thing Fleabag does, and it's a thing the show does, so of course she's going to keep doing it, offering witty, snide asides that elicit some great laughs in the middle of all the farce (and given that this is a season where Fleabag falls for a Catholic priest, farce abounds).
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The May 2018 election was widely boycotted by the opposition, which described it as a farce that was rigged in his favor.
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By employing satire, visual puns, farce, absurdity, kitsch, and the bizarre, the artists included in the exhibition upend social and aesthetic conventions.
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But even though the farce of unreviewability closed one door to the administration's path to success, the 9th Circuit opened a window.
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The lawyers "made these comments knowing they were untrue to distract from Mr. Smollett's farce and to promote themselves," the lawsuit states.
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"The entity list is a farce," said Derek Scissors, a resident scholar and China expert at the right leaning American Enterprise Institute.
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There was nothing sportive about their flailing across a 60-pound weight differential, nothing worth examining beneath the farce of it all.
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The 2016 campaign was covered largely as a farce, a human interest story, a sociological phenomenon, or a series of dueling scandals.
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It's hard to maintain a farce for so long, and there have been slips, telling statements on the parts of my relatives.
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The UK Independence party descended into farce on Tuesday after its leader Diane James resigned after just 18 days in the role.
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That is because the opposition-controlled assembly regards Mr Maduro's election last May as a farce and his second term as illegitimate.
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But the show is trying to be too many things — comedy, drama, satire, farce — and it does none of these things well.
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The show spoofed the scene, with guest Brie Larson and Cecily Strong playing two impatient villagers willing to call out this farce.
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"By contrast, what happened here in North Carolina was a farce," said Chris Brook, legal director for the ACLU of North Carolina.
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Voting rights coming under attack, coupled with the repeated police killings of unarmed citizens, often makes equal justice feels like a farce.
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Sunday's vote was slammed by Maduro's foes and a raft of foreign nations as a farce that did not meet democratic norms.
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On Twitter, she called Johnson the leader of "Project Farce" and criticized the uncertainty now faced by EU citizens living in Britain.
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You can tell how this is a farce at offering "unlimited" data, but still restricting what can be accessed using said data.
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This farce, recorded on mobile phones, soon went viral on social media, thanks to sharing by a prominent opposition journalist, Braulio Jatar.
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We want to pretend that sports are a safe sanctuary from the world's ugly problems, but that has always been a farce.
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Clarke has told BBC radio the contest "in danger of becoming a rather tragic farce unless some order is brought into it".
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She finds a tricky balance of farce, satire and emotional sincerity, a way of treating people as ridiculous without denying them empathy.
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Part Roth, part Swift, part Twain, it is built of satire, farce, and hyperbole, all deployed in the name of moral seriousness.
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Activists have described the elections as a "farce" after the government dissolved the main opposition groups and barred their members from running.
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After almost 26 years, I thought going back to "Bonfire" would help recast it as a timely (or timeless) race farce. Nope.
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His performance elevates an ominous, downbeat reflection on American decline and runaway technology into a subdued absurdist farce with dark geopolitical undercurrents.
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In Mark Shanahan's adaptation of Georges Feydeau's farce, directed by Hal Brooks, a married couple attempts to stay faithful until check out.
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The Snowman is a sad farce, but let it teach directors a lesson: Stay in Norway for as long as it takes.
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Some Sanders supporters decried the short circuited convention as a farce and claimed that the superdelegates unfairly tipped the scales to Clinton.
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The festival's main offerings on Sunday could hardly have been more disparate: farce in the afternoon, small tragedy writ large at night.
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If you feel you need a shower or six after absorbing what this farce of an election has become, you're not alone.
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Paula Callaghan, Pennsylvania A "democracy" in which about half of the adult population has no real voice in government is a farce.
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To be fair, Torpey said he hopes the show will provide a healthy dose of reality to go along with its farce.
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Our critic calls "Eye in the Sky" a riveting thriller — and often a grim, suspenseful farce — about drone warfare and its perils.
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Kurz's message on Sunday echoed a statement by France's European Affairs Minister Nathalie Loiseau, who dismissed Maduro's election proposal as a "farce".
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That's important: You need to see that Frances believes that she's the hero of a drama, not an antihero in a farce.
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Instead, this film, directed by Tyler Spindel, splits the difference between post-teenage romantic comedy and lower-versus-middle-class-war farce.
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In the filmmaker Sally Potter's recent farce "The Party," guests are at each other's throats before they down a single hors d'oeuvre.
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BLAIR RUSSELL David Ives's "The Metromaniacs" because attention must be paid to the occasional farce which is both smart and brilliantly realized.
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The pace is jaunty, the scenes crackle with gleeful, giddy incredulity, and the dry business of statecraft attains the velocity of farce.
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As the Swedes squirm with embarrassment, the real butts of this farce are the critics who insist on taking the Nobel seriously.
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The film is a freewheeling sex farce, with a large cast of characters engaging in the mandatory couplings (and thruplings and quadruplings).
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Kem Sokha's daughter Monovithya Kem called the trial against her father a "farce" as rights groups urged the case to be dismissed.
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Kem Sokha's daughter Monovithya Kem called the trial against her father a "farce" as rights groups urged the case to be dismissed.
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" Yet Biden himself said last week he "wants no part" in the trial, saying his testimony would "turn it into a farce.
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"Secretary Tillerson and all those at the State Department who participated in this farce of an assessment should be ashamed," said Rep.
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"It is a complete farce," says Johanna Houdrouge of Mercure International, a firm based in Monaco that runs shopping malls in Gabon.
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It's a very cluttered place to be, a fine-tuned machine spewing a torrent of chaos, cruelty, confusion, farce and transfixing craziness.
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James Sweeney's comedy about a (probably) gay man and a straight woman embarking on a relationship is riper for tragedy than farce.
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At some point, however, the dance became ritual, and from there it was but a short step for it to become farce.
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The failure of the 10.493 revolutions is what Marx's line "the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce" refers to.
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"A trial without all the facts is a farce," he said, seeding the idea that acquittal will be meaningless without witness testimony.
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It was a farce—a tiresome exercise mainly constructed for the purpose of reminding everyone that the Times has a television show.
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Kem Sokha's daughter Monovithya Kem called the trial against her father a "farce", and rights groups urged the case to be dismissed.
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The film's director and co-writer shot the political farce in 85033, as Donald Trump emerged as the leading GOP presidential candidate.
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In doing so, he will prove that this latest farce is even more baseless and malicious than the first attempted coup takedown.
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In doing so he will prove that this latest farce is even more baseless and malicious than the first attempted coup takedown.
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Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) said placing limits on whom the FBI can and cannot interview would be a "farce," and Sen.
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Justice Thomas' claim that this isn't an excuse for police to illegally stop people because they could be sued civilly is a farce.
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All of those aspirations — all of that talk about empowering young women and girls to chase their dreams — now seem like a farce.
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Pakistan's Express Tribune, an affiliate of the New York Times, led its edition with the headline "'Surgical' farce blows up in India's face".
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When asked about his general reaction to Avenatti's allegations, Kavanaugh said, "I think it's absurd, outrageous, a joke, a farce, the twilight zone."
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This 10 versus 1 thing is a fracking farce, because I can't swear on this show, so you can fill that in yourself.
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The fact that the audience is even tempted to believe it all speaks to the extent of the farce in today's art world.
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But somewhere along the line this liberated spirit has morphed into a crusade or a tragedy or a farce, depending on your view.
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The first two hours, as Mr. Madoff builds his illusory empire and at first evades detection, are largely played for comedy, even farce.
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Despite the Communists' efforts to portray Taiwanese democracy as a raucous farce, the island's orderly political evolution has inspired some people in China.
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LET'S HOPE things get better smartish: so far the Conservative leadership race has been a cross between a farce and a pander-fest.
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With a bit of whiplash, she finds herself thrust into a banal "French farce", assuming a role she had never imagined for herself.
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The bigger issue, however, is that not one of the patchy sequel's threads really holds together, even within the elastic boundaries of farce.
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Until then, this farce undermines the Federal Reserve's credibility as a regulator and demonstrates the politicized nature of its approach to bank regulation.
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Vermont's actual, tiny effort turned into a rancid, racist farce, while a nascent push for Calexit collapsed when its leader decamped to Russia.
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Tom Hanks's performance elevates an ominous downbeat reflection on American decline and runaway technology into a subdued absurdist farce with dark geopolitical undercurrents.
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But of all his plays, "The Father," which he wrote in 2012 and calls "a tragic farce," has made the strongest emotional impact.
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He had aimed to tarnish American democracy in the eyes of the world, portraying it as a farce in which the dead vote.
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And with slapstick routines foisted on their attendants, Kurwenal and Brangäne, much of this high-serious opera hovered on the edge of farce.
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He began to appreciate this distinction when he appeared in the 2009 Harold Ramis film "Year One," a farce about humanity's early history.
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Their lovey-dovey dating sets off Lolo's Oedipal alarms, and he secretly schemes against Jean-René like someone out of a Molière farce.
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Ms. Jenkins, whose previous features include "The Savages" and "Slums of Beverly Hills," patiently assembles a structure suited either to melodrama or farce.
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"This farce trial underscores Vietnam's abhorrent human rights record where people are frequently detained, arrested and in some cases tortured," Mr. Bencosme said.
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And like most sports, farce requires from its players hair-trigger timing and an intuitive grasp of the physics of bodies in motion.
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So, Danes are left with a mystery that belongs in a Nordic noir, one with elements of farce and filled with enraging twists.
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McGregor was a farce ... with Rocky himself telling us he's over the hype and moving on to the "REAL" fight -- GGG vs Canelo.
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The casting issue is mitigated, to some extent, by the show's proclivity for mixing lachrymose family drama in with the odd-couple farce.
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The gratuitous nature of his unpresidential behavior adds an element of farce to the tragic bargain many of Mr. Trump's apologists have struck.
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She could have a farce of a conversation in which she nods along while inwardly groaning, or she can give you some instruction.
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This changed with the concept of palliative care, a form of respect and care to the patient, as opposed to dishonesty and farce.
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" It was, of course, Marx who wrote that everything in history happens twice, "the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
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Robert Townsend, Dave Chappelle and Key and Peele made similar adjustments on their sketch shows, but within the precincts of satire and farce.
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No one could complain, for instance, about the selection of Bong Joon-Ho's exhilarating dark farce, "Parasite", as the Best Foreign-Language Film.
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Despite some committed performances, particularly from a refreshingly natural Maika Monroe, "Villains" is a hackneyed farce rich in gimmicks and poor in substance.
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It's a psychological thriller, a strangely dry-eyed melodrama, a kinky sex farce and, perhaps most provocatively, a savage comedy of bourgeois manners.
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Yi has described the Hague case as a farce, and Beijing says the ruling has no bearing on its rights in the sea.
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But it is as artificial as a plastic topiary, and the farce feels underpowered, like a pillow fight waged with very small pillows.
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SmileDirectClub does not engage in the practice of dentistry as the California accusation asserts, Connolly wrote, calling the complaint against Sulitzer a farce.
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Totuccio Contorno (Luigi Lo Cascio), who joins Masino in testifying against them, sends the proceedings spinning toward farce with his nervous, profane energy.
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"It's time to end this impeachment farce and get back to work for the American people," Ms. Blackburn said this week on Twitter.
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Ugulava, one of the leaders of the European Georgian Party, said he had not pleaded guilty and the verdict was a "legal farce".
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In what played as a halfhearted attempt at farce staging, Alison hustled Noah out the back door while Cole came in the front.
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His lack of credibility, combined with the fact that all the evidence he has brought up is incidental, makes this process a farce.
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Last month, Hall of Famer Oscar De La Hoya also termed the Mayweather-McGregor contest a "farce" that should not be allowed to happen.
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The bad news is that human society is a never-ending comedy of errors in which our hopes and dreams play out as farce.
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"Saturday Night Live" writers have never had it so good: a veritable buffet of farce to feast upon and regurgitate for viewers every week.
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Whelan's brother, David Whelan who lives in Canada, denounced the court proceedings as a farce and said he was worried about Paul's physical condition.
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If the ongoing inquiry into whether the British establishment overlooked decades of child abuse were not so serious, it would have become a farce.
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Eggers' book pushes past satire into dark farce, where the story's hyperbole feels more like a gag than a coherent warning about the future.
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Mr De Graaf leads his team through bewildering negotiations, and the process gradually unravels into farce as building begins without an agreed master plan.
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DAVID SKILLINGDirectorLandfall Strategy GroupSingapore You presented Karl Marx's vision of a post-capitalist future as "people essentially loafing about" ("Second time, farce", May 5th).
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Rather than taking her to the hospital, Darlene insists they need to own her first and ensure she won't talk but it's a farce.
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Executives of The Washington Post, who say Mr. Rezaian is innocent of any wrongdoing, have described his prosecution and imprisonment as a Kafkaesque farce.
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Critics say it is a farce, with his main rivals barred from standing and a compliant election body bound to favor the ruling socialists.
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One activist, Debra Kennedy, called the public hearings "a farce, because the DOJ is not going to go back and renegotiate," the newspaper reported.
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In other hands, this material might have been the makings of a grand farce in which our callous, pompous protagonist gets his delicious comeuppance.
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THE response of the Belgian police to the terrorist attacks that claimed 32 lives in Brussels on March 22nd has displayed elements of farce.
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And as if in further proof that history repeats, not as farce but as worse tragedy, consider the disgrace of that other disaster, Iraq.
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The host of NBC's morning show interviewed the former star of its reality show "The Apprentice," and the whole thing played out as farce.
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Because most of the tests failed — and because of popular depictions of the country as silly and backward — they were shrugged off as farce.
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One former minister, George Osborne, sacked by May when she came to power in July 2016, led the criticism, calling the moves a "farce".
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The surest sign that Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed to the Supreme Court is that opposition to his nomination has devolved into a farce.
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The Coens offer Mannix's day-to-day activities in the spirit of ironically light-hearted farce—one that obscures a dismal and unglamorous reality.
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"In the farce of American politics, these blowups have been coming faster than you can turn the pages of a book," the editorial said.
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It can pay to highlight Brecht's stylish extremity, "the horror in the heart of farce," as a line in the play's epilogue puts it.
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It's almost welcome, for the way it forecloses on the possibility that we are dealing with something as complex as farce, say, or satire.
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Such busy recyclers of Western supremacism, many of whom uphold a disgraced racial pseudoscience, remind us that history often repeats itself as intellectual farce.
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" The collaboration, announced this week, spurred a Brontë biographer and society member to write a scathing blog post denouncing it as a "rank farce.
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That's the title of the dark and enigmatic cosmic farce by Enda Walsh that opened on Sunday night at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn.
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The tumult hit peak farce in a couple of televised congressional hearings in the winter and spring that the crypto crowd turned into memes.
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And last month, when President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela invited the United Nations to observe presidential elections, it was widely viewed as a farce.
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Once Ea's search for disciples begins, "The Brand New Testament" slips from satire into absurdist farce, loses its sharper edges and becomes merely silly.
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That blend of tones, with near-farce and emotional brutality blitzed together, is pure Baumbach, and he dishes it up for two hours straight.
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Steyer called the confirmation process "nothing more than a farce put on by Senate Republicans and President Trump," but did not call for impeachment.
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In plays like "Disco Pigs" and "The Walworth Farce," Walsh has proved himself an original anatomist of the stories we tell ourselves to survive.
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"This is a constitutional issue, and we're not going to turn it into a farce, into some kind of political theater," Mr. Biden said.
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"For a film that is a complete fiction to be honored in a nonfiction Emmy category is a complete farce," the Jackson estate said.
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Postgame Report In a match that some foosball fans have called "a total farce," Coach Simon's Red Team defeated the Blue Team, 10–0.
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Lying on my back in the snow, staring fruitlessly for hours at grayscale clouds, the hunt for the northern lights felt like a farce.
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In the 1970s, she became the world's greatest director of sex comedies—a genre she made entirely her own by fusing romance, farce, and politics.
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The day Ghanaians stop and ask themselves if they're better off since gaining independence from their colonial masters or if it's all just a farce.
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Rashida Jones stars as a cliché — a lone-wolf, straight-arrow, tough-cookie Los Angeles police detective — in Steve and Nancy Carell's pun-filled farce.
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But luring confused holiday shoppers with hot chocolate and then offering a pamphlet about how to find Facebook's privacy settings is kind of a farce.
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If you want to be REALLY cynical at your debate-watching party, perhaps you should be asking: Are all of these crazy expectations a farce?
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I know you live and feel as deeply as I do—so I know you'll recognise the comedy, the horror, the tragedy and the farce.
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In the end, the Reform Party disintegrated into farce: its more prominent members included David Duke, a Klansman, and Lenora Fulani, a "black nationalist Marxist".
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The tour is intended to be a comeback, a way to get financial backing for a new film, but it quickly becomes a humiliating farce.
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But this whole farce is actually in keeping with the candidate's remarkably successful strategy of playing footsie with the most extremist elements of American society.
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"Pinning the Bernie Delegates Network down on even the loosest facts has been an exercise in high farce," wrote Gideon Resnick of The Daily Beast.
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"We demand the U.S. Senate stop promoting the bill and hope the U.S. executive authorities put an end to this political farce," the spokesman said.
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There may be one upshot to this farce of a hearing: It is very unlikely to overshadow Ford's moving, brave, and exceedingly credible opening statement.
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Lieutenant Savchenko vigorously denied the charges and, at one point, went on a hunger strike to protest the trial, which she dismissed as a farce.
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Reporters who choose to write about this farce should have the journalistic integrity to cover the book as what it is -- a work of fiction.
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Again, it all seemed personal, parochial and petty, playing out in the news media as Jacobean revenge tragedy or drawing-room farce, take your pick.
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"Attorney General Barr's preemptive press conference today was a complete farce and an embarrassing display of propaganda on behalf of President Trump," New York Sen.
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Mr. Johnson has always had a knack for recasting disaster as farce, and he devoted his weekly newspaper column to the virtues of being fired.
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Reporters who choose to write about this farce should have the journalistic integrity to cover the book as what it is — a work of fiction.
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""Reporters who choose to write about this farce should have the journalistic integrity to cover the book as what it is — a work of fiction.
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But it shares with its predecessor a fondness for the subterfuges and archetypes of classic farce, which Mr. Bean translates fluently into modern-day terms.
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Washington this year disavowed Maduro, whose 2018 re-election was widely dismissed as a farce, and recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as the legitimate president.
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The essay by David Cairns and Fiona Watkins on the curdled farce "All These Women" (1964), for example, deals bluntly with that film's artistic failure.
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" In "Truth and Politics," she wrote: "Freedom of opinion is a farce unless factual information is guaranteed and the facts themselves are not in dispute.
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Mr. Kemp has called accusations of voter suppression a "farce," and noted that registrations rose about one million statewide after he took office in 2010.
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History repeats itself as unfunny farce when, a century after Roosevelt, another macho president amplifies white fears of losing out in the struggle for existence.
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Dozens of people were killed in a chemical attack in Douma, Syria, in April — but to this day, Syrian officials claim it's all a farce.
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He composed poems, satires and fine comic plays, notably "The Mandrake," which Voltaire praised for its anticlericalism and which still delights lovers of bawdy farce.
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Her embutido — the pork and sausage stuffing to be sewn up inside the chicken — required the technical precision of a French farce (finely puréed meat).
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McNickle also recognizes that Bloomberg's election and re-elections depended on his personal wealth, which in turn "made a farce" of the campaign-finance law.
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" He added: "It's a psychological thriller, a strangely dry-eyed melodrama, a kinky sex farce and, perhaps most provocatively, a savage comedy of bourgeois manners.
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Unlike their elders, they hadn't watched the radical promise of the late '60s curdle into violence and farce, and so weren't disillusioned with the left.
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Eventually, Hodzic reveals that he knows the truth about his caretaker, and what seems like an allegorical farce becomes a rumination on friendship and trust.
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Critics say the election is a farce, with Maduro's main rivals barred from standing and a compliant election body bound to favor the ruling socialists.
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In the meantime, the episode played out like a farce, or a horror thriller, with people gradually discovering there was a monster in the basement.
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"Many little touches in the film reflect the offbeat hand of Ms. Delpy," Nicolas Rapold wrote in The Times of this farce, which she directed.
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A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps both.
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Morgan Fox, spokesperson for the Marijuana Policy Project, said the farce Hatch made of the legislation probably stemmed from the senator's unfamiliarity with marijuana policies.
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Filmmakers have long been fascinated with both Watergate and Nixon, whose rise and downfall provide plenty of opportunity for farce, satire, pathos, and political drama.
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But Trump's executive order was a farce, and the U.S. military is being told to prepare to house tens of thousands of people on its bases.
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Now, as the referendum looms, I find myself seeing Brexit as a sad reality, just as Trump recently went from farce to threat across the pond.
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The selection show used to be a half hour, then it was an hour, and this year for the first time became a two-hour farce.
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This makes a farce of Facebook's suggestion earlier this week that to get it to take down fake ads I have to report them to it.
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The interview then devolved into farce when Love-Robinson was asked if he was, in fact, not a doctor but simply a fraud and a liar.
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Jude Célestin, the runner-up in the first round of voting in October, had condemned the ballot as a "ridiculous farce" and refused to campaign further.
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"Yes Italy, my candidacy for prime minister may be a complete and total farce," proclaimed Oliver in front of a huge and perfectly satirical toy volcano.
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In theaters today, the sequel to Ben Stiller's 2001 farce about the modeling world does have a handful of early scenes that might inspire light tittering.
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You might sympathize with liberal politicians and journalists, not to mention conservative Never Trumpers, who can't understand how this so-called farce-presidency can go on.
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The ideas that have turned this election into such a farce are not just dangerous and appalling by the standards of American democracy and political traditions.
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Dallas had a commitment from DeAndre Jordan last summer, in what seemed like a huge move for the Mavs before it turned into a peculiar farce.
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He went on to direct Alan Arkin in the sentimental comedy "Popi" (1969) and again in "The In-Laws," an extravagant farce written by Andrew Bergman.
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"Scarface" came out a year after the first movie adaptation of "The Front Page," a satirical Broadway farce that Hecht and MacArthur had concocted in 1928.
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"Lift Yourself" works around a gospel sample, builds in a bass-heavy beat, then descends into a farce as West starts spouting gibberish about Poopa Scoopas.
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In this destined-for-syndication varsity farce, Sam goes to college at the Citadel and joins a fraternity with more than just maestering on their minds.
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What to watch for: Will the White House take a similar position on elections in Venezuela in May, which are widely expected to be a farce?
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Teetering between rompy farce and scathing critique, Non-Fiction is like a sobered version of Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game (1939) for the French literati.
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Now comes "The Play That Goes Wrong," a British farce born in a pub, that has been running in the West End of London since 2014.
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But maybe that will change when the acclaimed jester Christopher Bayes directs this Goldoni farce, about a manservant working overtime, for Theater for a New Audience.
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Now, reporters attend the daily press briefings and, as vocally as they persist in trying to hold the White House accountable, still participate in a farce.
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However, according to Azerbaijani officials this reported destruction was a farce, that the site had not been disturbed, because it never existed in the first place.
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For Red Bull Theater, David Ives, a playwright who knows his way around a couplet, adapts an obscure 18th-century French farce about poetry-mad Parisians.
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But on Wednesday, Mr. Trump used Twitter and the news conference with Ms. Solberg to once again dismiss the Russia investigations as a politically motivated farce.
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" Known for his versatility, Mr. Bosco won his one Tony, in 21980, for portraying a buffoonish opera impresario in Ken Ludwig's farce "Lend Me a Tenor.
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The culmination, which occurs pretty much simultaneously with Brendan's campus calamity, is a boozy late-night episode that approaches, but does not cross into, bedroom farce.
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" This movement informed a generation that mainstream media couldn't be trusted, journalistic objectivity was a farce and factual truth was less important than a "deeper truth.
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Falling with a thud between two stools, it has neither the zip nor the zaniness of farce nor the airy vivacity of the best romantic comedies.
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Even as farce, Kjellberg's performance has been illustrative, and a small number of eager observers say they hope that, as backlash mounts, it will be galvanizing.
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If you are furious or dejected because you think Trump's trial was a farce, here's a quick reply from some black people: Welcome to our world.
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Representative Doug Collins of Georgia, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said Thursday's votes on procedures for the panel's inquiry would only continue the farce.
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In "The Walworth Farce"; "The New Electric Ballroom"; and, more recently, his co-writing effort with David Bowie, "Lazarus," Mr. Walsh has made isolation awfully alluring.
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Produced by the Amoralists at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, it's part science-fiction yarn, part horror tale, part sex farce, part memory play and, briefly, a musical.
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This much is clear: The Republican mission to destroy Obamacare has become a farce, albeit one that may yet harm the health of millions of Americans.
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But now, after years of sanctions, countersanctions, bitter feuds and one noteworthy meeting in Trump Tower, the case seems to be entering the realm of farce.
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" "How this farce started and snowballed based on the actions of unelected bureaucrats into one the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the America should be discovered.
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But in every episode of The Romanoffs, Weiner finds some way to reenact the death of the titular family, sometimes as tragedy and sometimes as farce.
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But it's also plausible that Scaramucci's ouster is the end of the Trump administration acting like an office farce, and the beginning of something much darker.
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The captain of a private aid ship that engaged in migrant rescue missions is accusing Italy and Malta of hiding a deadly "farce" in the Mediterranean Sea.
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EDINBURGH (Reuters) - A retelling of Britain's vote to leave the European Union and its dramatic political consequences might perhaps be framed as high drama or extreme farce.
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They lurch forwards, and for a week like this one you can genuinely feel like it's 2002 again, and history repeats always more as tragedy than farce.
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"This program will turn the credible fear screening process into an absolute farce," said Human Rights First's Eleanor Acer in response to initial reports of this program.
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The Palestinian businessmen boycotting say the conference is a political farce based on an improbable equation: improving the Palestinian economy without addressing the Israeli occupation of it.
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After all, Ms. Hilty, who just opened in a Broadway revival of the farce "Noises Off," has had her worldly goods hauled across the country five times.
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Considering that in 2017 the government needed 27,124 doctors in primary health centres, certified 8,286 (31%), and had in place 3,027 (11%), this upgrade is a farce.
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Vice President Joe Biden warned against dismissing Trump's candidacy as a farce, telling a Pittsburgh television station that the presumptive GOP nominee could win over skeptical voters.
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It's frenzied and chaotic as plotlines are converging, and everything begins to feel a bit like a madcap farce that would be depressing if it weren't comical.
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The more than 21980 movies Mr. Scola directed over 40 years were emblematic of the mix of caustic satire and farce for which Italian films became known.
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Their whirling farce is packed with audacious twists and memorable supporting characters and has an authenticity that recalls films such as "Mean Streets" and "Dog Day Afternoon".
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And at a glance, sidestepping more Washington misadventures might seem like a smart call in light of our reality dovetailing with farce more and more every day.
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But while the foregrounded action is distorted to the point of farce, the satire never tips over the edge—largely because Riley's characters feel so lived-in.
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The whole farce shows how ridiculous it ever was to hope—as the RNC and some pundits did—that Trump could mature and pivot to the center.
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While cruelty is the topic at hand, the scene comes across as farce, providing the viewer some relief from the serious nature of the topic and work.
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" But Hagit Ofran, who tracks settlements for Peace Now, said Netanyahu's announcement of restraint is a farce, and that settlement construction is "destroying the two-state solution.
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The farce was much more lighthearted as a unicorn escaped from a child's birthday party, requiring the CHP to employ a helicopter to bring it to justice.
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Kavanaugh dismissed the allegation as a "joke" and a "farce" during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee and Democrats on the panel declined to pursue them.
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The Middle Kingdom's public image lacks the reek of desparate farce that clings to its neighbor North Korea, or the batshit insanity that's become Japan's calling card.
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There are many, many metalheads out there who are vehemently opposed to every facet of this disgusting authoritarian farce, and who do throw themselves into the resistance.
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The British exit from the European Union was the exception — simultaneous tragedy and farce, a disaster abetted by lies, energized by a buffoon and consummated in mayhem.
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In our idleness we intuit a cosmic meaninglessness, which comes along with the realization that, with every action, we get only more entangled in the universal farce.
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"It's a farce," said Pat Fitzsimmons, a barber, who had watched the dredging — done with claw-like heavy equipment and barges — and was skeptical about its success.
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The Shanghai writer Xu Zhuodai, who went by the pen name Master of the Broken Chamber Pot Studio, was a master of farce and a trickster extraordinaire.
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At this point, to call Donald Trump a farce is to besmirch the good names and talents of satirists, playwrights, directors, authors, and humorists of all stripes.
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"What critics said: "Even in the episodes which revel in delightful full-fledged farce, there is such depth of feeling to 'BoJack,' such investment in its message.
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In acting as though the bill still has a chance, McConnell may be undertaking another Trump-like maneuver: reducing matters of state to the level of farce.
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This unstable compound of shooting-fish-in-a-barrel satire and pedophiliac fantasy turns dark at the very end, but the farce still leaves a confusing aftertaste.
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The rest of Cohen's testimony and many of the questions from House Oversight Committee members were a farce: Trump didn't want to disclose his grades in college.
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I like to believe that this is a sign that things are changing, that this kind of farce is just the death rattle of a bygone era.
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It's most likely that "farce" is the definition, because there really are no synonyms for F.B.I. director, and the rest of the clue will help us out.
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But it was just Mousa Moustafa Mousa dutifully giving Mr. Sisi a "backup dancer" to window-dress a farce so that it could be called an election.
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A turbaned passenger calls it "kismet," but the Depression-era romantic farce "Easy Living" isn't so much about fate as the fantasy of getting something for nothing.
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Mr. Kemp called those charges a "farce": He noted that he had made it easier to vote by helping to bring about an online voter registration system.
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Most effectively, though — and largely thanks to Ms. Kidman's regal, witty performance — it's a comedy, a country-house farce about the problems caused by an inconvenient guest.
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We just want to get out, but our politicians are useless, and they have turned one of the most important decisions in our history into a farce.
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"The Play That Goes Wrong," a British farce about an inept theater troupe's ill-fated effort to stage a murder mystery, will close on Broadway this summer.
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" He added that the law is "a big move to expose the farce and to challenge a system that is outsized in its capacity to push back.
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"I think it's the biggest farce that's happened in our lifetime, wasting taxpayer dollars, not getting nothing done," said Mark Gleason, who attended Trump's Battle Creek rally.
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The misanthropic provocateur Bruno Dumont's "Slack Bay" is a slapstick detective farce set in 1910 in a picturesque seaside fishing village near Calais where everyone is demented.
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Accomplishing that in a way that isn't just depressing or infuriating involves turning the profession and the time period into a raucous combination of pageant and farce.
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That it turned -- and turned quickly -- into such a farce should give Democrats significant pause as they way whether or not to head down the impeachment road.
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And yet it all made sense only as farce — of race, of memory (just the day before he appeared in a rueful statement acknowledging it was him).
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In a video posted online, Navalny said his new strategy would be to organize a "voter strike" and demonstrate the election to be a Kremlin-orchestrated farce.
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"This farce about voter suppression and people being held up from being on the rolls … is absolutely not true," Kemp said in a Tuesday debate with Abrams.
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The president's Ubu Roi energy, on stage as in life, shades every event toward farce, even in a constitutional crisis or a showdown with a nuclear rival.
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He called the legal proceedings thus far "a sham" and said it's a "complete and utter farce" to think Chapo is capable of assisting in his defense.
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The rare movie that actually seems to grasp how the internet can skew our perceptions of reality, Ingrid Goes West is part farce, part very dark comedy.
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When Moscow say that it was a farce that the president of the United States, Ronald Reagan, would put up a strategic defense initiative, where were the progressives?
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Videos and photos of Cohen devouring fried chicken ran everywhere, a sign that perhaps the hearing was designed to be more of a farce than a serious inquiry.
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That pre-debate Facebook Live broadcast by Donald Trump, which combined farce, dystopia and reality-TV in three tawdry minutes, presaged the tone of the encounter that followed.
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The route into the Europa League has become a convoluted farce, eating into pre-season schedules, with as many as eight games needed to reach the competition proper.
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It's quite funny — Costi, Adrian and Cornel act out a low-key farce as they traipse through the yard looking for subterranean clues — and rich with unstated implications.
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In her statement, read by a translator in Russian, Savchenko also called President Vladimir Putin a "tyrant" and said her trial was a "farce" orchestrated by the Kremlin.
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We know that G7 held last year ended up with "farce", if this year's summit could be a "decent" one, we will keep an eye on this issue.
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In March, his term as leader of central Asia's most populous country was extended by another five years in an election deemed a farce by international democracy observers.
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Given 4Chan's well-known obsession with trolling and misleading the media, at first glance, this would appear to be a farce or joke post to mess with people.
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Vandal's first episode showed us exactly how committed this show was to its premise and its farce, and even then nothing could have prepared us for that finale.
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But this is how black performance began in America—as a farce fertile with possibilities, a sideshow of captives that "Jes Grew" into the Greatest Show on Earth.
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And that's the best spin on this farce that I can give: Kelly made a swift assessment of Scaramucci's character, took decisive action and has asserted his authority.
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What's left at this point is a striking legal farce, a Catch-22 so bafflingly weird that even a longtime politician can't help but giggle at the irony.
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Some have called the whole fight a farce ... dude was way bigger than the Rizin superstar -- and many have wondered if it was all fixed from the beginning.
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" "It takes partisan gamesmanship to an entirely new level, and it undermines the integrity of our Committee," he wrote, calling the hearing "a political circus" and a "farce.
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It's got the material for a bleak, black-comedy riff on Wag The Dog, but it settles for Delta Farce-level "hapless Americans in a foreign country" camp.
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After the recent farce of a congressional hearing about "anti-conservative bias" on social media, Facebook wants the world to know it's still taking this alleged issue seriously.
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That is what makes the case in Palermo so important: it is either a farce, or the most important breakthrough so far in the war on migrant-smuggling.
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It is well documented that voter fraud is not a major issue in elections, yet state legislatures have used this farce to justify heavy-handed and restrictive laws.
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This year's performance was entitled "My Kingdom for a Farce," written by Michael Trottier, with help from Jeff Nussbaum, Brian Agler, and Patrick Ross from West Wing Writers.
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There are all of the mythologies that intertwine in the process: the farce of a pure meritocracy, of color blindness; a misplaced faith in standard measures of achievement.
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Some interweave two narratives, as when a wistful slice of life about a young Muslim college student and a sex farce involving her older neighbors end up colliding.
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The protest failed to draw the numbers it hoped for, collapsing into a near farce with clowns and an Elvis impersonator getting as much attention as Burk herself.
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If the possibility remains that Gene could be anyone, surely a play with at least one foot in farce can sustain an anything-goes spirit of its own.
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It ended in absolute farce on Monday morning, with their much-publicised clash with Manchester City called off owing to torrential rain and poor conditions on the pitch.
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Watching the Turners, I thought about the scam the Kim family pulls in Bong Joon Ho's "Parasite" and how that film ingeniously reconsiders class warfare as nightmare farce.
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By several accounts, it quickly spun into farce: No one wanted to admit how much damage could be done or how helpless they would be to deter it.
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Dick becomes an invisible third player in their marriage and a source of creative arousal — until the letters become public, and the season spins into drama and farce.
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At the end, though, they will have noted the result — a tie of the highest quality decided by two moments of low farce — with a tinge of dread.
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Amnesty International, which called the trial a "cruel farce," said the 440 defendants convicted on Monday should be retried in a proceeding that meets international standards, or released.
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"The whole idea of e-cigarettes was to reduce smoking, but that's a farce," said Anil Purohit, chief executive of the Jodhpur School of Public Health in India.
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Three days later, the Chinese Embassy in Stockholm called the prize a "farce" and threatened consequences if members of the Swedish government were to attend the award ceremony.
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And while I won't verbally trample the 2nd Amendment, the notion that it ensured a right to bear assault weapons and lethal ammunition is, quite simply, a farce.
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Then came the horrific discoveries in the orchards and the ensuing trials, which had elements of farce as well as horror and cost the taxpayers millions of dollars.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the case had been a farce from beginning to end and put the dispute into dangerous territory of worsening tensions and confrontation.
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Written and directed by Whit Stillman and based on an unpublished Austen novel, Love & Friendship is a farce with a wicked sense of humor — it's a total delight.
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VENEZUELA Venezuela's socialist leader Nicolas Maduro faced fresh international censure after re-election in a vote foes denounced as a farce cementing autocracy in the crisis-stricken OPEC nation.
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"I have now asserted diplomatic immunity ... in order to bring this farce to an end, so that I can start to rebuild my life," he said in a statement.
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The Washington Post and other supporters described the prosecution as a farce, as international calls intensified for the release of Mr. Rezaian and the others known to be held.
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Their adventure is part fairy-tale, part farce, and an astute examination of the social and moral state of Europe in an age of economic crisis and political malaise.
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After more than a year's worth of unbelievable twists and turns, Election Day is finally upon us, and we'll have some resolution to this political farce/thriller soon enough.
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The campaign took a historic turn on June 14, when the Democratic National Committee announced that it had been hacked and blamed Russia -- which Trump dismissed as a farce.
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Everything from the brilliance of RuPaul's Drag Race and the watered-down and aggressively palatable Lip Sync Battle engage almost entirely with the farce of both artifice and performance.
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The releases followed Maduro's re-election at a poll last month that was condemned by Western nations as a farce cementing an autocracy in the South American OPEC member.
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A producer's indifference and desperate haste to remove the body, avoid liabilities and proceed with shooting give you an idea of where this frenzied, Almodóvaresque backstage farce is going.
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Sarah Palin on Friday night called the Black Lives Matter movement a "farce" in a Facebook post responding to the deadly shootings that killed five police officers in Dallas.
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Does he have the emotional fortitude and the intellectual wiles to salvage some material benefit for the United States from a summit that could easily descend into a farce?
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But an FBI director and deputy director chose to ignore the obvious and instead use this Russian farce to open an investigation into a presidential candidate and his campaign.
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His new work, "The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China," shows how the early 20th century inspired a flowering of comedy, farce, cursing and satire.
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Yankees 6, Rays 3 The pinstriped odyssey of Alex Rodriguez was an action-packed thriller, a cautionary tale, a pathetic farce and a story of redemption, all in one.
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NEWLY RELEASED CANDY Adapted from a notorious novel by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, Christian Marquand's 1968 would-be far-out sex farce elevates smarminess to a universal principle.
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But anyone who has followed the recent college admissions scandal might suspect that meritocracy is a farce, and that the wealthy have workarounds that we don't even know about.
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There are a few different comedic subgenres lurking in Blockers: a raunchfest, a teen caper, a slapsticky parenting farce, a sex comedy, and a full-on gross-out escapade.
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But it was always with a devilish twinkle and giant smile, because Krikorian always got the sometimes silly farce of the tech world, as well as its important impact.
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After the Bill Clinton impeachment farce 20 years ago, pursued as a strictly partisan Republican hatchet job, most Americans now regard impeachment as part of the usual political shenanigans.
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In his Helsinki meeting with Vladimir Putin, the farce of the wouldn't/would "clarification" — which no one seriously believes — showed Mr. Trump's confusion and gullible vanity at its worst.
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Here, you thought at first glance, was a take on "Figaro" that would emphasize the oppression of the feudal system that burdens its characters and motivates their anxious farce.
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It's a pretentious farce, set to "Bolero," in which people in trench coats and bowlers push around a wall on wheels, followed by an overwrought duet about intimacy issues.
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It's a bit like a sex farce with real sorrow instead of slammed doors, and something like a drawing room comedy with moral conundrums peeking out beneath the cushions.
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The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, which has created a broad sanctions program against Maduro, has already dismissed Parra's election as a farce and reiterated support for Guaido.
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As it turns out, modes of farce and fantasy enable Mr. Dumont to pull the rug out from under the viewer in a number of new and upsetting ways.
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Two years later, he made "Sexo Va, Sexo Viene"—"Sex Goes, Sex Comes"—a farce about a lesbian who abuses her boyfriend until he starts dressing like a woman.
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By then, his relationship with the state attorney's office had soured, his decision to bolt to Texas having made a farce of the trust it had put in him.
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Because if we have to accept the farce that Kim Jong Un knew nothing about what happened to Otto Warmbier, what other atrocities will we be made to overlook?
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But mostly, right-wing politicians and their media allies pretend, to the point of farce, that the primary racial injustice in America involves white people unfairly accused of racism.
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"The idea that these are some kind of independent stations is a farce," said Craig Aaron, president of Free Press, an advocacy group that opposes the Sinclair-Tribune merger.
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On a recent afternoon, the scenes being played out involved the actions of good-intentioned Western volunteers resulting in borderline farce after the Jungle's denizens refuse to play ball.
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" The movie ends with Paul's default riff, in which he adopts a heavy brogue to mimic a parent's advice to join the police "farce" and work for your "pinchon.
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It was a farce meant to draw mainstream attention, and it did for a bit, but his reign went down as one of the major factors in WCW's demise.
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Douglas Slocombe, the British cinematographer who filmed the Nazi invasion of Poland, the adventures of "Indiana Jones" and the madcap farce of Ealing Studios comedies, died on Monday in London.
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The Classic Stage season will also include a production of "The Liar," a farce adapted by David Ives ("Venus in Fur") from a 17th-century French comedy by Pierre Corneille.
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She twirls, grins and gyrates until the chairman breaks into applause, taken aback by the virtuosity of her theatrics: "This is the most amusing farce of the year!" he exclaims.
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Though the movie, Urban Myths, is plainly a farce designed for the maximum ridiculousness, the choice is offensive in a way that's only worse for being so blithe and intentional.
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Like many entrepreneurs, I don't flow easily with the unaccountability, the wasteful Common Agricultural Policy and the farce of upping sticks to Strasbourg once a month to appease the French.
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Convincing Reeves to take on the role he was born to play, a not at all flattering farce of himself, presented a considerable and daunting challenge for the film's creators.
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And so Curse of Chucky became what he called a "tonal reboot," another surprise for Child's Play fans after the twisted rom-com and wacky farce that had come before.
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"This Lula-centered farce was trumped up as an affront to the democratic state and intelligence of Brazilian citizens," one of Lula's lawyers, Cristiano Zanin, told reporters in Sao Paulo.
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The ensuing farce, in which congressional Republicans and members of the administration sought to reverse-engineer a scandal that would give Trump thin cover, was disgraceful for everyone who participated.
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The lesson, one that has been consistent across issues ranging from torture and Russian interference in the election, is that congressional oversight of the intelligence community has become a farce.
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Rajoy had branded the Socialist-Ciudadanos coalition a "farce" and a threat to the national interest which sought to undo reforms his government brought in over the past four years.
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While the economic fallout of the Trump administration's ill-advised move is maddening enough, it should also be remembered that this exercise is being done in service of a farce.
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To turn from Thatcher to Cameron is not quite to see history repeating itself as farce, but there's an essential triviality about Cameron and his career, and now his book.
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And as we watch this farce play out, a real — and deadly — threat to the lives of LGBT people across the globe, the threat of Islamic extremism, continues to grow.
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Synopsis: The romantic farce "They Came Together" takes aim at worn-out romantic-comedy tropes by pairing small-business owner (Amy Poehler) up a with corporate sell-out (Paul Rudd).
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" Weightier than a sex farce but slighter than a novel of ideas, "This Too Shall Pass" is more of a thinking person's summer book than a female "Death in Venice.
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Romance meets boisterous farce in "Tía Julia y el Escribidor" ("Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter"), Caridad Svich's lively adaptation of Mario Vargas Llosa's autobiographical novel, at the Gramercy Arts Theater.
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Spinach and Mushroom Farce 23 ½ ounces spinachSalted butter, as needed1 ¾ ounces chicken liver2 ½ ounces chicken mousse1 ¾ ounces mushroom duxelle *recipe below1 tablespoon chopped tarragon Salt and pepper, to taste 1.
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He has done so well at dragging his rivals so far down into the sewer with him that portions of what we watched on Thursday night were a fetid farce.
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Which makes this cop think the dream of moving to LA and becoming a movie star—or even an actor who earns a livable wage—is just that: a farce.
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The film opens on a note of impish farce, as Cassius (Lakeith Stanfield) shows up for an interview with a counterfeit trophy and a phony employee-of-the-month plaque.
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But amid all these disputations the central question facing anti-Trump conservatives — and not only us — can be simplified to this: Is what we're watching a tragedy or a farce?
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He won re-election for another six-year term in May in a deeply-flawed vote which the opposition, whose top candidates were barred from running, decried as a farce.
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And while history may be repeating itself, this time as farce, as Einstein defined insanity, there is little reason to repeat the same thing over again and expect different results.
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Democrats denounced limits on the scope of the investigation as a farce, as it became clear that the White House had imposed limitations on the F.B.I.'s line of inquiry.
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In a recent interview with WDRB, Schnatter, 58, claimed that his ouster was "a set-up" and a "farce," and slammed both the company and the taste of its pizza.
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But one thing is clear, wrote CNN political analyst Julian Zelizer: Amid this Trump farce, this Presidents Day weekend reminds us what the greatness of the office is all about.
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If his unadorned high-art allusions can make him an acquired taste, his latest farce, "The Son of Joseph," is his most accessible film since "The Living World," from 2003.
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To that end, "30 Rock" was the great Obama-era situation comedy — a workplace farce, on and loosely about NBC, that hit its stride in 2008 and ran until 2013.
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Once featured daily in global press coverage of the war, the election has since been dismissed as a farce or reduced to a footnote in English-language scholarship on Vietnam.
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We get dreadful mistimings, worthy of a farce, as when medics try and fail to fold the wheels of a gurney so that it can be loaded into an ambulance.
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In light of Hill's accusations that Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the all-male committee turned the Supreme Court hearings into a farce.
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"I'm not going to participate in this, because you're the ones who keep people from coming to the polls because it's a farce," he declared before walking off the set.
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Anyway, Link doesn't want to go along with the farce at first, but Amelia promises to make it worth his while in "creative ways," wink-wink nudge-nudge, so he agrees.
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News Analysis MEXICO CITY — Pinning down the meaning of Joaquín Guzmán Loera — the deadly and celebrated Mexican drug trafficker known as El Chapo — is a constant battle between tragedy and farce.
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That is just one of the threads that make up the antic "Hierba Mala Nunca Muere" ("Weeds Just Won't Die"), a topical deathbed farce receiving its world premiere at Repertorio Español.
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American Vandal's commitment to farce, talented cast, and skillful writing result in a richly imagined world full of people who feel more real than your own former classmates (sorry not sorry).
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It's a farce on the show, but it's almost impossible in San Francisco to walk down a street without seeing a car with the Uber or Lyft logo under the windshield.
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In 2003, Mr. Ahluwalia was cast with Owen Wilson and Bill Murray in Mr. Anderson's "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou," a farce about zany oceanographers looking to murder a shark.
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Hong Kong (CNN)The first day of the new Hong Kong parliament descended into farce as several young lawmakers staged curse-laden protests at the swearing in of city's Legislative Council.
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Ross McDonnell The Lobster would make a fine double feature with Love & Friendship, a witty and wonderful farce about morals, mores, and marriage based on Jane Austen's short novel Lady Susan.
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Acknowledging that some parents may find the lack of Santa in their household "very triggering," Shepard explains that it was Lincoln who first brought up that Father Christmas is a farce.
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He's a dog, but give our man credit for trying to muddy the waters to the point of insanity, the rhetorical farce equal of Diego Maradona in the 1986 World Cup.
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The idea of a billionaire who has no experience and who has these horrible sexual assault allegations and horrible for-profit scam universities can become president was a farce last summer.
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His 2016 Paperweight, which depicts an elderly writer at his desk engulfed in a torrent of shredded paper, takes the theme of accretion even further, in its sinister devolution into farce.
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's first-season blend of tragedy and farce turned out to be an uncannily apt representation of the experience of being an American in the age of the meme.
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"The so-called cyberattacks claimed by the United States may well be a farce directed by the superpower itself," said an op-ed published in China's state-run news outlet Xinhua.
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As a result, Bélier-Garcia's attempt to impose a tone similar to Vyrypaev's leads to performances that look mannered, and a little too cerebral for what is ultimately a harmless farce.
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When, by their actions, those institutions show they no longer hold those ideals sacred, they destroy the underpinnings of why the institutions exist — and, instead, make those a farce, a sham.
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The evidence, when revealed fully, will show that this present farce is as much a frame-up and hoax as Russian collusion, maybe worse, and will prove the President is innocent.
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Yet the way the shutdown farce has played out in Washington shows that Kelly's purported skills in bringing order to the White House have only created more disorder during critical negotiations.
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"Many little touches in the film reflect the offbeat hand of Ms. Delpy," Nicolas Rapold wrote in The Times of this farce, directed by Ms. Delpy and written with Eugénie Grandval.
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It denounced the emphatic July 12 ruling in favor of the Philippines as a farce that had no legal basis and part of an anti-China plot cooked up in Washington.
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In the aftermath of Starr's overreach, Congress changed the independent counsel law -- requiring future special counsels to report directly to the attorney general, and thus paving the way for today's farce.
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Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary is a farce about the business of making documentaries, especially ones that profile celebrities, and whether you find it fascinating or infuriating, it's hard to look away.
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The Financial Stability Board, which sets risk ratings on international banks, has rated the big Chinese banks safer than the big American banks (an unbelievable farce worthy of a separate comment).
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Too leaden for farce and too bland for satire, Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse's "Dear Dictator" wastes a potential gold mine of culture-clashing silliness on worn, high school movie clichés.
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But the farce ended in tragedy after Mr. Pul (then with the People's Party of Arunachal) was removed from office by the Supreme Court, which reinstated Mr. Tuki (of the Congress).
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Run "Glengarry Glen Ross" through a Monty Python spin cycle and you might get Brian Parks's kinetic farce "Enterprise," an absurdist express train of comic corporate-speak at the SoHo Playhouse.
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The SEC's proposal confirms the worst fears of leading anti-graft voices: that one of America's foremost anti-corruption tools has, under Trump, been transformed from a force into a farce.
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A marginalized State Department leads to the farce of the White House's Israel-Palestine peace initiative, uncoordinated with the diplomats who know the issues and are needed to marshal regional support.
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The evidence, when revealed fully, will show that this present farce is as much a frame-up and hoax as Russian collusion, maybe worse, and will prove the President is innocent.
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