Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lindsay eased the way toward his own possible switch to the Democratic Party. There his political future might be brighter than in the Republican Party. Lindsay's declaration that he acted on principle and his charge that Rockefeller has drifted to the right provoked a sneer from Rockefeller: "Absurd-a complete distortion and misrepresentation of the facts." The Governor's public display of pique gave currency to the view that for the first time, Rockefeller clearly hears Goldberg's footsteps. Last week Rockefeller produced his own poll, showing him with a slender 2% lead...
...Make a Woman is another story about the same kinds of choices. Choosing which way to play the game. Choosing in a hallucinatory dress shop between various specially-designed styles of absurd. Choosing whose standards to appeal to, and whose reasons why. Choosing which role labelled Woman...
...Furthermore, nobody in this country, in this government, can hold a murder trial as long as the war in Vietnam goes on. It is absurd and hypocritical," Zinn added...
...Zone" offers this forced convergence of "high" and "low" humor, which is too naturalistic to be absurd and too pregnant with symbolism to pose as farce. The "high" humor of the Devil as Angel finds expression in a scene in which an Old Man and an Old Woman solicit his aid in bringing their daughter back to life. The sarcastic expose of superstition is vitiated by a focus on the campy quaintness of the old couple and the vulgarity of their revivified daughter (Alaina Warren). The mixing of styles proves particularly annoying in Felder's early appearances as the Devil...
...Lindsay) of these productions decided to stage them as "dramatic readings," but if there is they are keeping it carefully hidden. The effect achieved by a group of fully costumed actors pacing around Jonathan Miller's simple and beautifully effective sets with loose-leaf notebooks in their hands is absurd. The actors who have taken the trouble to learn their lines are encumbered by the unwieldy scripts, and the others get tongue-tied and lose their place anyway...