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...advice? Establishing a relationship with the person through the fire door makes the inevitable eavesdropping a little less absurd, so feel free to sleep with him again. Since we started sleeping together, accidentally overhearing my fire door boyfriend’s bad grades on math quizzes has gotten a whole lot less awkward...
...father of the Theater of the Absurd, Ionesco is hardly writing of angst-ridden and fantastic Kafkaesque metamorphoses—in fact, quite the contrary is true. By the end of the play, it is the single remaining human form that seems grotesque in comparison with the peaceful and contented converts...
...brilliance and innovation of the interpretation by director and set designer Burkle triumphs over the occasionally weak acting. The haunting red umbrellas take Ioensco’s rhinoceroses beyond the absurd and into the surreal; the HRDC production transcends a mere illustration of the script and creates a work of art in its own right...
...It’s a timely thing, but it’s not calculated.”And of course, they too have to deal with those dreaded two words: gay cowboy. Lee professes that his greatest issue with the phrase is that such a seemingly absurd combination might bear the “connotation of being a comedy.” For Gyllenhaal, the stigma of that label scared him away from the script when it was initially shown to him at the age of 16. “When I first heard about it, I heard about...
...international human rights concerns into the single term “politics” reveals a disturbing underlying attitude of indifference and resignation. It suggests that University President Lawrence H. Summers is as autonomous of student opinion as is North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. This seems an absurd correlation—but if the students’ will is not meaningfully expressed through the organized leadership of the UC, it exerts influence over nothing. Condemning the UC’s vote has implications far beyond the single issue of janitor’s wages. It reinforces and amplifies what...