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...play opened in a wash of romantic purple light, with lycra-clad couples embracing ecstatically. This initial, sugary sweet facade soon shattered into a whirl of violent, absurd and erotic images...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Jet Bludgeons Senses, Convention With Meaningless Pretension: | 4/23/1992 | See Source »

Counter and Reid quote Libenson's assertion that "America is not a Christian country as if it is somehow absurd or offensive. Have they heard of the separation of church and state? Should Libenson be embarrassed about making a factual statement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letter Was `Filled With Lies' | 4/21/1992 | See Source »

...nomination now looks inevitable but that nonetheless they would stay uncommitted at least for the moment. One reason, says Edwards -- who stresses that he personally has no doubts about Clinton's honesty -- is that "you always wonder if another shoe will drop." The situation has reached the somewhat absurd stage of rumors about allegations. Talk circulated around Chicago last week that some really damaging charges -- nature unspecified -- were about to become public, and it may have scared off some superdelegates from signing up with Clinton just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Clinton: Questions Questions Questions | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...diversity problem exists and someone has to be blamed for it, should CCR sue those professors who rejected Harvard's offer? HLS did take the initiative, so it must be the fault of the people who turned them down--let's sue them! Clearly this is absurd...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Bell's Twisted Logic | 3/14/1992 | See Source »

...sculptor H.C. Westermann. It also has some of Westermann's laconic humor. Sanctuary, 1982, is one such piece: a cubical box of thick wood mounted on two raw branches with the bark still on them, which turn out to be "legs," pedaling a wooden wheel -- a sort of absurd unicycle, designed for flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Delight in A Shaping Hand | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

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