Word: absurd
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What is more, Shamie has exhibited little grasp of foreign policy affairs and clings to the patently absurd notion that somehow the deficit will disappear after a few years of moderate economic growth, a balanced budget amendment and a Presidential line item veto. It is a ridiculous theory, but it is one shamie must cling to in order to bang home his bit campaign pitch: no more taxes. In the course of the campaign, however, Kerry has forced Shamie to concede instances in which he would agree to a tax increase...
...world several decades ago with Waiting for Godot, he unleashed a whole new dimension in existential dramas dealing with death. Instead of being represented by the conventional dagger and funeral scenes to which audiences had become so comfortably accustomed, death became something less frightening, more abstract, and almost comically absurd. Perhaps, Beckett suggested, death was nothing more than a means of alleviating the boredom of an essentially mundane earthly existence. Or alternatively, perhaps it was simply a version of "not being...
Whatever the case, since the origins of the existentialists, theatre of the absurd has blossomed as a dramatic genre. And if plays about death continue to make audiences feel somewhat awkward, they still haven't lost their appeal. Rather, the characters speak with such striking candor about the limitations of their lives that such conversation has actually become fashionable among artistic circles...
Seemingly trying to retain the comedy of the Meaning of Life while substituting real meaning for satire, Razor's Edge instead becomes a kind of home movie version of Murray's journeys around the world with outtakes from failed soap opera pilots. to distinguish the comic absurd from the would-be serious drama, director John Byrum uses Jack Netzshe's heavy-handed music and a seemingly endless stock of orange sunsets to highlight the shifts to real drama that his direction and Murray's acting leave otherwise undistinguished...
...reluctant to address the self-sacrifice point made by Bok because it seems so absurd, but for the sake of tho roughness I want to state my conviction that the wizards who run the Harvard corporation could mastermind a divestment plan that would incur no financial loss to the University. Bok wonders why divestment is more forceful than the university's statements against apartheid. How much force is there in Harvard's expressed abhorrence of apartheid when in its financial dealings it is supporting the apartheid regime, which has promised never to eliminate the racial discrimination it stands for? Harvard...