It is farcically indifferent to reality, and then it intones others on the need to get serious.

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Today's time-travel movies generally follow the blueprint of entertainment-above-science, often farcically ignoring the contradictions caused by time-travel storytelling.

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Musicians play oboe-like ''suona, '' bell-shaped gongs and a variety of drums, while masked or unmasked dancers move farcically to the accompaniment.

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' were, farcically, struck through with black pen.

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Farms are getting smaller, sometimes farcically so.

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Rosneft's acquisition of Yuganskneftegaz, meanwhile, has derailed plans to merge the oil firm with Gazprom, the state-controlled gas giant (finally and farcically cancelled this week, though the government came up with another plan that would remove restrictions on foreign ownership of Gazprom shares, a move designed to alleviate some of the pain caused by the Yukos fiasco).

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