Word: absurder
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...Hood," distributing art treasures to the downtrodden. "Do you know the poor? I'm sure you'd like them!" he insists with comic-book eyebrows. Michael Palin and Shelley Duvall, in dual roles as lovers across two eras, provide additional satire on old movies, with a touch of the absurd: Palin, in desperate search for a cure to his vague sexual problem, blurts out, "I must have fruit!" This can mean anything; Python at its best delivers up nonsense and lets you make of it what you will. But mixing it with a "serious" plot is a tricky thing...
...Reagan plan is plagued by loopholes and inadequacies that made it "ludicrous and absurd," Soshnick said...
Jordan's urging of a return to the Johnsonian "Great Society" is starlingly lacking in specifics. In order to construct a more just society we must know precisely who needs help and who does not. To attempt to solve the problems of "Black people" is absurd. If any white politician spoke of solving the problems of "white people," he would rightly be ridiculed. Yet according to the Bureau of the Census, in the U.S. today there exists a more unequal distribution of income among Black families than there is among white families. In 1977 the two-fifthe of Black families...
...really has the psychology of the masses figured out is up there manufacturing incidents as they're needed. The thought that there's some group of people who meet and decide what to do--to maintain the economy, to keep people calm--is horrifying, and I think sounds absurd even as I talk about it. But a part of me says there really is somebody in that much control...
...write, to keep learning. I always try to perfect my composition. But I do like writing film and opera music. I believe that it fulfills the needs of particular situations. My opera, Escorial, to a text by Michel de Gilderone, is a return to the Theater of the Absurd, popular in the '20s, but in a very contemporary style. In a sense, Napoleon is a film-opera. The San Fransisco Opera has even included it in the subscription part of its season...