Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...123rd session of the Paris peace talks was perhaps even less productive than usual last week, with the U.S. again demanding elaboration on the Communists' seven-point program and an unconditional cease-fire while negotiations continue. Again the Communists called the U.S. position "absurd" and refused to explain their seven points further. When the short meeting was over, the chief U.S. negotiator in Paris for the past twelve months, David K.E. Bruce, rose and, without pretense of civilities, left the old Hotel Majestic for the last time...
...outer regions of the 16th Arrondissement near the Bois de Boulogne. From its opening in 1934, the place attracted about 30 visitors a month to admire a lugubrious clutter of porcelain, stained glass and Napoleonic furniture. Guidebooks ignored the Musée Marmottan. Even its hours were absurd: two afternoons a week, except during the tourist-laden summer, when the museum perversely stayed shut for two months...
...Vietnamese see the Americans as scapegoats for almost everything that is wrong with their country today. Many of the accusations are not only untrue but cruel. The idea that the U.S. would pour $125 billion and 45,000 lives into the country with the idea of "undermining" it is absurd; yet some Vietnamese insist that such is the case. Illogically, many are convinced that the U.S. is supporting Thieu and at the same time trying to weaken the Thieu government...
...more all than for others. Clayton Claw Cleaver Clementine, the hero of The Onion Eaters, has three testicles. He is descended-so to speak-from a line of similarly endowed gentry, most notably Clementine of the Three Glands. But what do three testicles mean? A mystical trinity illuminating some absurd need to procreate? A symbol suggesting a metaphysic of pawnbroking? Likely as not, it is simply an animation of the familiar euphemism, "the family jewels...
...almost as if Beckett and Pinter put on Hellzapoppin. Everything and nothing seem to happen, yet a considerable amount of atmosphere is conveyed. The dialogue is arch and flat, absurd and witty. Descriptions are precise and at times chastely beautiful. The scatology is consistently outrageous. Yet it is through Clementine's numerous fornications that The Onion Eaters generates its odd life. The book does not have much meaning, only an animal warmth, at once grotesque and touching. Donleavy seems to be saying that this warmth is the only thing about which we can be certain. "To make the stars...