Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...climax of the production comes when the chamelion-like Flynn shows the jury that "things are not always as they appear to be." He manipulates an entire jury which is impressively acted by a single man who jumps from chair to chair protraying every absurd stereotype, reminding the audience that they are equally foolish...
...wanted to. Between 1961 and 1964 he was arrested four times for obscenity. The court battles that resulted from the arrests bankrupted him in 1965, ten months before he died with a needle in his arm. To the '70s consciousness, the specific grounds for Bruce's arrests seem absurd. He said words like "shit," "penis," "asshole" and "cocksucker," but he did not do so on television. He didn't cut records, he didn't wander the streets mouthing dirty words at 12-year-old girls. He used the words in a nightclub act, talking candidly about sex and about...
...tell you, for $185,000 you get a piece of nothing." Tom Lorch, a high school principal who is looking for a house in San Francisco, adds, "When we talk about houses, it's money, money, money?not how we're going to live, which seems wrong. And these absurd numbers, $100,000. It's some kind of fantasy world...
...only one purpose. Mr. Carter calls it an option. The military calls it a deterrent. I see it as simply an instrument of destruction. The priorities governments hold are somehow distorted. We, as Americans, may finance an instrument designed to destroy men not buildings. It's totally absurd. Why value a brick over...
...social necessity, fairness and logic dictate that it must be available especially to those who, wanting it, cannot afford it. To say that abortion, while legal, is immoral but that only the poor shall be saved from this immorality by a fastidious government is not only unfair but absurd...