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Perhaps best known for Absurd Person Singular, Ayckbourn is one of the world's most widely produced playwrights (translated into 32 languages) and surely among the most inventive. Over the years he has found plausible plot uses for everything from a Dungeons & Dragons-style game to London's Waterloo Bridge and has evoked laughs from such unlikely topics as a violent bank robbery and a young beauty's attempts to kill herself with the everyday tools and appliances of her suburban kitchen. Ayckbourn's originality, wit, poignancy and unfailing empathy for middle-class values have made him the dominant commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Farce Person Singular | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

...mistake a quarter of the way through the race knocked out the front-running lightweights. Jeremy Barnum made a devastating faux pas at the 450-meter mark in the race. The senior "caught a crab," allowing his oar to bounce akwardly into the water. Harvard wound up finishing an absurd fifth...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: M. Crews: In Search of National Championships | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...Sassine stood above his factory floor as 430 employees sewed the last shipment of Disney children's wear for export to the U.S. "We're all closed," he declared as he popped tablets for an upset stomach. "They're destroying those of us who give jobs. It's so absurd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: To Have and To Have Not | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...there is no progress toward peace. France's 6,800-member contingent -- largest in the 28,000-strong U.N. force -- is costing the country billions, a commitment French Defense Minister Francois Leotard said he is unwilling to keep up without seeing results: "No one is obliged to do the absurd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week May 15-21 | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

...lightweights made a devastating faux pas a quarter of the Way through the race, and then wound up finishing an absurd fifth...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: Men's Crew Stumbles During Easterns | 5/18/1994 | See Source »

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