Word: absurder
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...ones, of mere promise into claims on art history. It is that the one has produced the other. In the process, too many painters have been left without a middle ground between the miseries of oblivion and the stresses of cultural stardom. Hence fame depends, to a grotesque and absurd extent, on painters' ability to excite envy among their rivals, and the sense of common reciprocity that pervaded the art world up to ten years ago is drying out. Where it still exists, it is more to be found west of the Hudson, in Houston or Chicago or San Francisco...
WHAT REALLY MAKES Doubting Thomas worthwhile, however, despite the wild and morbid humor and the absurd plot twists, is its skillful portrayal of the academic world. Reeves, himself a Harvard graduate student for many years, gets to the heart of the academic quandary and the dark depths of faculty polities with more than a little humor...
...Reeves catches nicely both the tenuous hand-t-mouth existence of the aspiring academic, and the absurd chance that governs life generally-both points worth pondering and laughing over as another exam period has ended its domination of Cambridge life...
Ziff Corp. calls CBS's charges "absurd." Says William Ziff Jr., chairman of the company's executive committee: "I am appalled. I am angry." The courts will decide whose ire is justified...
They have sugar coated it, spoken of a new era, apologized for it, offered incentives anything to make the student body believes in a body that is as absurd as it is odious...