Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from Electronic Age pretentiousness is her cooly ambivalent humor. She's aware of the moral, political, and intellectual paradoxes of the "Big Science" that can provide all this amazing circuitry. She projects radar dishes, poses tough questions--"Should the unborn have civil rights?"--and takes a science lesson to absurd lengths by wondering what would happen if sperm were the size of sperm whales and decided to impregnate Japan...
While $15,000 a year may be an expensive way to enter the community of educated men and women, $15,000 a month to reach out and touch someone is absurd...
...next lover in the lineup is Jack, a married man who is torn between his responsibilities to Luba, to his family, and to his job. Brian Howe injects the role with much needed energy and sincerity. Despite the patently absurd situation in which his character finds himself, Howe presents Jack as a highly believable and sympathetic fellow. He also is also very, very funny. Jack's outrageous telephone calls home are undeniably the high point of the play. In fact, Brian Howe truly outclasses the rest of the cast, not only in energy but also in his breadth of emotion...
Presumably, the regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski had hoped that it could intimidate Walesa and his followers. But the Warsaw government backtracked when it became clear that the trial was turning out more absurd than intimidating. Invited by the judge to find an amicable solution, the state prosecutor offered to withdraw the charges if Walesa would make a statement that satisfied the commission members. Responded Walesa: "I had no intention of humiliating anyone." With that, the case was dismissed. Walesa noted that the compromise outcome was a "sign of hope...
That way, the Crimson could avoid the delayed planes and absurd lighting situations which the squad experienced Friday night in New Jersey, en route to being massacred by Princeton...