Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...IDEA of the U.N. marching out its legal guns to castigate a television network running a fictitious show is hard to take seriously. It is almost as incredible as ABC' s decision to schedule the absurd excercise in xenophobia to begin with...
...simulacrum." In days of yore, the aim of a museum retrospective used to be clear. It was to sum up a distinguished career, presenting the evidence of a long life's work. For a major museum to give a 34-year-old artist a retrospective would have seemed absurd, like tossing an egg into the air to admire its grace of flight. Not anymore. The pressures of market hype, acting on curators who do not wish to seem stuffy, have made pseudo events like this common -- even if the brevity of the artist's career fills his curriculum vitae with...
...still suffer the effects of that injustice. To compare the position of those who enter this country, often illegally, to find work, with the position of those who were forcibly brought here to be traded and sold like cattle, is not a comparison at all but an absurd rhetorical juxtaposition...
...with Gilbert). Also ahead of us though are Cibula, Smith, Davenport and Yang--four undergraduate playwrights getting their scripts produced. These particular plays are difficult to classify, ranging from Sweet Sins, a drama about domestic violence to A Nite-Lite, which the Common Casting pamphlet describes only as, "Urban. Absurd. Harsh. Ludicrous. Surprising. Possible...
...PRACTICAL purposes, students and alumni do not entertain ideas of dominating proceedings of the faculties of requiring approval for regular administrative decisions. To suggest such broad powers is absurd. But this country's foremost intellectual community deserves to be treated, as...well...an intellectual community. As the community considers the ideas and concepts of the modern world it ought to have the ability to consider such concepts as they relate to the University it sponsors. The ethics of investments, policies on unionization, treatment of junior faculty, the joint pressures of teaching and research and relations with the Cambridge community...