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...Ugly Ever After" is pretention-free. This is Theater of the Mostly Absurd, done well. Cheap, good-hearted and more or less polished (excepting the smoke-filled room), "Ugly Ever After" injects grown-up humor into the fairy tales of childhood...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: Ugly is Beautifully Silly | 3/4/1993 | See Source »

...Magazine, for example, sung in an arid yet passionate rasp, Edwards muses on how literary works have been replaced on people's bookshelves by visually slick magazines featuring everything "from the absurd to the obscene." The haunting, slow-tempo Yellow Brown recalls the cyberpunk film Blade Runner; synthesizer bass notes drip like fat raindrops, and the sounds of droning machinery resonate. Edwards laments ecological destruction caused by technology: "In the city air, in all our seas, you can see every other color bleed into/ Yellow brown. There's nothing to save us from ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perversely High Tech | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

...believe that the Vance-Owen plan is in any way a just or practical alternative to military action is absurd. The plan treats Serbia as a legitimate party in a territorial dispute--not as a ruthless aggressor. No person who has seen the devastation, death and rape commited in the name of "ethnic cleansing" will accept a peace plan that rewards that aggression...

Author: By Uzma Ahmad, | Title: Vietnam's Legacy | 2/27/1993 | See Source »

...knock mush. Mush in small doses can be very nice. But mush-for-the-sake-of-mush can get a little absurd. Mush isn't exciting; it's squishy and fake, and it makes me a little uncomfortable. Most importantly, you can't build anything with mush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thoughts from the Heart | 2/13/1993 | See Source »

Team Nickname: They're the Huskies. We're the Crimson. This one isn't even close. What kind of nickname is a color? Imagine: the Boston Green (Celtics), the Boston Black (Bruins), or the New England Red, White and Blue. Absurd. Some say it's simple and classy. I say it's plain and boring. Nickname, minus two Harvard...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, | Title: It's Decided: We Win, 5-2 | 1/29/1993 | See Source »

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