Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast, the Army's orders-is-orders syndrome led to comedy of the absurd in the case of Pfc. Joe A. Smith...
WHAT DID WE DO WRONG? A ponderous put-down of the contemporary foibles of young and old falls on its face as it peers into the generation gap. Devotees of Paul Ford may be amused by their idol in a hippie getup, but others will consider Wrong? more absurd than theater...
Only a year younger than his predecessor, Allen plans to serve exactly three years as chairman. After all, says he, "anything less would be absurd, and any longer will see me an old-age pensioner." I.C.I.'s profit picture is expected to brighten during those three years. If it does not, Sir Paul's actions may be to blame, but Sir Peter will wind up paying for them...
...basic problem with the film is that the potentially high drama and black comedy are all too often reduced by Lester to a mere vaudeville of the absurd. At times, the kind of war it seems to be attacking is of the class variety. England's upper-crusty Sandhurst snobs are ceaselessly satirized by Crawford and by Michael Hordern as a blimpish colonel obsessed with "the wily Pathan," who claims to understand the working man. "I had a grandfather who was a miner," he muses, "until he sold it." The larger its targets, the more petty grows the film...
...Observer, but he also learned some facts of political life. "The heavy hand was not only ineffective," he reflects, "it was usually irrelevant. Humor was essentially a way of surviving, and it was no coincidence that every good man I knew had a deep and abiding sense of the absurd...