Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Well, I've covered men's hockey all winter. I guess that would qualify as Theater of the Absurd...
...Scott's sexual drive so he hides it). Led by Nikky, Scott beats pimps and thugs to a pulp, who then graciously give him straight tips. Scott's quest becomes less urgent and more professional as it continues. The outraged moral stance of the Midwestern family man becomes more absurd and dismissable, but Schrader peps it up with an occassional religious talk or a shot of Scott's sleepless nights...
...Topless Oyster Bar"-but a mange of new signs has broken out, for gift shops, campgrounds, ice-cold Billy beer (all the remains of that sunken venture have drifted hither). Just beyond the agricultural experiment station, a new information center sits by a freshly dug pond with the regulation absurd Old Faithful-type fountain. Just inside the town limits, two new buildings vie in raw gracelessness, both souvenir shops. The rival tour wagons jostle Winnebagos, in flight from the snows of Nebraska, Montana, Minnesota, Illinois and hovering here at the dozen chances to buy a now amplified selection of interchangeable...
...Washington, B.C., Federal District Court, Sears blamed the Government for whatever employment unbalances exist in the retail industry. The suit, prepared by veteran Civil Rights Attorney Charles Morgan Jr., charges that the Justice Department, the Labor Department, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and seven agencies have built up an absurd number of conflicting goals for different minorities. Sears maintains that it is not company employment practices that have held back integration but the Government's failure to press vigorously for equality in housing, education and craft training...
...poll that the Freshman Council took of its constituents showed that the class favored sending students to the CRR like the last two classes had. The results were not overwhelming; many did not even vote. But to say that the freshman class is opposed to the CRR is absurd even given the results. The apathy results from misinformation and tradition. Students are made to believe that they have to continue the boycott...