Word: absurder
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...affair on a video monitor. As Max watches the professor propositioning Maggie to have sex with his new robot he is also watching a video-tape of the robot creation scene from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, while listening to an old blues tune called "Searchin' for My Love." This absurd overlapping of technology past and future with Max's discovery of the timeless facts of life lies at the core of the film's humor...
...life. And yet it draws the profile as it had not been drawn before. Not even the most hard-bitten viewer can contemplate this oeuvre without a degree of awe-a sensation not always identical with aesthetic pleasure. No doubt about it, Picasso painted many bad and some flatly absurd pictures at the end of his life. But the good ones are so good, and in such a weird way, that they utterly transfix the eye, while the drawings (and some of the vast outflow of etchings) possess an assurance, a sensuous ferocity that no other living artist could approach...
...Junior's Bar Mitzvah. To ask for an injunction banning Betamaxes because the have the potential for abuse seemingly deviates little from the mythical feudal prince who rips out his subjects' tongues. If we cannot ban handguns even with their great and proven potential for abuse, then how absurd to ban VCR's solely for their potential for abuse...
...addition, a compressed primary calendar will discourage multi-year Presidential campaigns. It is absurd that people like Walter F. Mondale started their race for the Oval Office in 1981. And long campaigns basically disqualify public servants currently in office from contention...
...earnest young woman recently proposed that all ethnic jokes be replaced by Martian jokes, in order to preserve goodwill. This is an absurd suggestion: in addition to making hypocrites of our spacemen, it would call for a return to the old-time two facedness described by White. If Americans refuse to accept the fact that all people (including victims of racial bias) are prejudiced to some degree, they risk losing the ability to distinguish racism from ethnic humor...