Word: absurder
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...presentations, for instance, seem intentionally baroque and self-indulgent. They cleverly re-imagine older staples of the western art canon as food, a mere commodity. “Portrait (W. Pooh),” for instance—a bust of a chocolate bear—is absurd and self-effacing. Art, then, for Ryoo is its own subject—her photographs are a kind of meta-art. They suggest that artistic creation is subject to the same commodification as the boxes of Tide and cereal in Wing’s photographs...
...every pre-trial appearance, Milosevic has responded with political diatribes. He has labeled the charges against him "absurd" and "monstrous," the prosecutor a NATO mouthpiece, the court a "retarded seven-year-old." He has called himself a peacemaker who's on trial to cover up NATO aggression against a sovereign country. The rants have led presiding Judge Richard May to cut off Milosevic's microphone. Milosevic has dropped hints that he might stage a grand scene by calling a parade of Western leaders to testify, starting with former U.S. President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. It will...
...scene featuring the two Winthrop House seniors indicted for larceny was truly theatre of the absurd, familiar to me only in that it was vaguely reminiscent of the O.J. Simpson trial. The same mud-brown paneling, uptight officers, grim-faced suits. It was a moment of such epic soap-opera proportions that one half expected close-ups or an outburst from an aggrieved Hasty Pudding-ite in four-inch heels. Where was the bad theme music? Judge Ito? The white Explorer? The New York Post headline? But there were no such unseemly antics in yesterday’s episode...
...other works express concerns about cycles of violence. With a simple, iconic style reminiscent of instruction manuals, Seth Tobacman's "Not Enough People Have Died," takes the logic of punishing everyone who's ever given money to terrorists ("Let's start with Ronald Reagan," he writes) to its absurd extreme - eliminate everyone who's ever bought a tank of gas or used a light switch. Other contributions by the likes of Tom Tomorrow, Sue Coe and Spain Rodriguez give form to topics ignored by the other 9/11 books such as the curtailing of freedoms and the geo-political history...
...reader's ire not because of its poor quality but because of the poor quality of the strips around it. As a victim of diminished expectations, collections of the strip such as "Zippy Annual 2001" eliminate that prejudice. But to me, Bill Griffith's art works best in the absurd and sad context of daily news. In fact, the San Francisco protesters had their fury appeased when the comics page editor announced to the crowed the re-instatement of "Zippy the Pinhead." Following a brief "huzzah" the protesters, in true Zippy spirit, reportedly began shouting "Cancel Zippy...