Word: absurdes
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...that is a long time off. What about now? Those who care are planning civil disobedience -- like Sunday's Smoke-In on the Boston Common. But protesting pot laws by smoking joints in the park is like protesting fornication laws by copulating in the streets. It is an absurd reaction to an absurd law. You know, you really can enjoy a smoke in the privacy of your own room (which is where hippies like to smoke it) without much chance of being hauled off to jail...
...sentient and seriousness of the World War II era. Today the Beatles' cunning collages piece together scraps of tension between the generations, the loneliness of the dislocated '60s, and the bitter sweets of young love in any age. At the same time, their sensitivity to the absurd is sharper than ever...
...with rejoicing, calling him "a man of major stature." They were somewhat at a loss to explain how such a great master could have been consigned to oblivion for so long. The best explanation seemed to be that Schönfeld's preoccupation with the macabre and the absurd, his penchant for scenes of gravediggers and treasure seekers, marked him as a German Romantic two centuries ahead of his time. Then, too, Schönfeld limned his scenes of violence in a cool, depersonalized vein. In the opinion of Ulm's deputy director, Dr. Wilhelm Lehmbruck...
Loved a girl in his shiny Corvette; We know it's absurd But the last that we heard...
...explosive and tragic finale. Director Jifi Menzel mixes the real and the surreal, ribaldry and pathos, comedy and tragedy-yet keeps the movie on the track all the way. Much credit goes to Actors Somr and Neckar, who straight-facedly exemplify Gogol's view that "what is utterly absurd happens in the world...