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...eros loudly dispute the merits of their beliefs: the Gulag vs. the Inquisition; Stalin vs. Judas; Brezhnev vs. Franco. The priest veers toward an ecumenical humanism; the Marxist sighs for a materialistic Utopia. They agree only about the culture that confronts them. Says Quixote: "It's an absurd world or we wouldn't be here together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Surprise of Spiritual Slapstick | 9/20/1982 | See Source »

...more importantly, the idea that the United States should try to coerce the allies into cooperation once persuasion failed is nothing less than absurd. How does one justify American intervention in a legitimate business deal between sovereign nations? Only by assuming an all-important role for the United States as the leader of the free world, a western hegemony...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: No Sanction for Reagan's Machismo | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...fatigues hung out to dry. They moved in the breeze as if this movement-like the movements of ants, bees and geese-had some polar ordination. For a moment he felt himself to be a man of the world, a world to which his responsiveness was marvelous and absurd. She opened her bag and looked for something. 'The army must have been a good preparation for this experience,' she said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Huntsville Unit | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...amendment, thanks to the mischievous support of many Democrats. They viewed the Armstrong addition as yet another clearly frivolous requirement that should not be embedded in the Constitution. But they found it useful as a way of rendering the whole amendment less politically attractive and more intellectually absurd. An angry and worried Hatch agreed, warning, "Conservatives who have fought for the balanced-budget amendment for 25 years may have now done themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twilight Zone: Balanced-budget politics | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

THAT'S THE FIRST HALF of the movie, and nothing more happens. The threesome vigorously enjoy each other's physical prowess in a variety of settings--disco, living room floor, fancy restaurant--and tumble merrily toward a completely, ambiguous and absurd climax at summer's end. But the movie still could have worked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Misbehaving | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

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