Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...further credit, he has given his sets a faintly futuresque motif. One can admire this without buying the companion notion, voiced in the program notes, that The Millionairess is Shaw's "final praise of the ridiculous," or the implication that Shaw was anticipating, even influencing, the Theatre of the Absurd...
...single out some nation, or group of individuals, as responsible for the situation would be absurd. It is true that the lack of confidence in the franc can be traced directly to the May upheaval. It brought about a major outflow of gold, and the large pay increases demanded--and received--were the immediate cause of a cost increase bound to weaken France's international trade position. That line of reasoning can easily conclude in an indictment of French students and workers...
...wide-eyed bogus innocence that is just right. (On hearing that the boy has a job carting meat, she stares right at him and says, "I adore meat. I think it's really wonderful that you handle meat. Meat is the essence of life." It's at once credible, absurd, and hilarious...
...Sides or Four. Once the South Vietnamese delegation arrives, it could be months before the procedural wrangles are settled. No sooner had Saigon said that it would attend the talks than Hanoi replied: "We will not talk to [South Viet Nam] on any matter." Absurd as it may sound, all parties are still embroiled in a dispute about whether the conference is two-sided or four-sided. Both Hanoi and the N.L.F. delegation in Paris insist that the talks amount to a four-way conference and that the presence of the Saigon delegation "does not signify any kind of recognition...
...scene in Ben-Hur (1926) exposed themselves for three days to freezing winds and icy water at four hour stretches, narrowly avoiding pneumonia. But, when Wyler remade Ben-Hur in 1959 when technical proficiency could have compensated for weather variables, the scene was poorly synthesized in the studio with absurd process photography...