Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before man had scientific facts to back his convictions, he was confident about the existence of extraterrestrial life. "To consider the earth as the only populated world in infinite space," said the 4th century B.C. Epicurean Philosopher Metrodoros, "is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field sown with millet only one grain will grow...
...that he knows nothing about any contacts made with Senator Williams in the family's behalf. To the other point, Vice President Irving Shapiro, the company's first Jewish director, replies: "If the accusation is that Du Pont is chiseling on existing tax laws, that's absurd. If the criticism is that tax laws should be changed, that may be needed...
Mancel Keene, vice-chancellor of the state colleges for faculty and staff affairs, termed Bohmer's assertion "absurd...
...much of the movie is taken up with Cisco's rounds. There are a lot of grungy, evocative Los Angeles locations (diners, the back streets of housing developments), but the action is too episodic to sustain interest. Despite this, and an absurd denouement better suited to the pages of a Marvel comic book, there are indications throughout that Writer-Director Bill L. Norton was up to something more than just another movie about youth and hard knocks...
...integrity cannot carry the show alone, and Coming and Going often straddles the line separating theatre of the absurd from people acting absurdly. The absurdity of reality is convincingly exposed only in the scene from the trial of the Chicago 8. The trial is truly ridiculous, and the Workshop's re-creation of it is hilarious and moving at the same time. Judge Julius Hoffmann screams an explanation of why he called William Kunstler "Billy": "I was trying to show you how absurd it sounds in a courtroom!" The irony hangs in the air as the lights...