Word: absurdism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magazine publishers defended their product. Said Playboy Enterprises President Christie Hefner: "The idea that Playboy, which has stood for positive, healthy sex for three decades, should be linked to violent pornography is absurd." Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse and Forum, responded by taking out an ad that ran in newspapers across the country. Declared Guccione: "Just as I have every constitutional right to publish Penthouse, so you, too, have every right to read it or ignore it." So, presumably, does 7-Eleven have a right to refuse to stock such publications...
...council report may be released as early as mid-May, but intensive ACSR meetings during reading and exam periods are "absurd from the point of view of students," McLeod said...
Members of a class all come together in their freshman year when the majority lives in the Yard and during their senior year when they participate in commencement-centered activities. "It's sort of absurd to try to promote some sort of interest [senior year] when you have a bridge of two years," said Mendez...
MOTORIZED BROOMSTICKS, decapitated balloon-heads, hitchhiking warlords... Once again Shakespeare has been made an unwitting accomplice to the theater of the absurd, this time in Ionesco's Macbett...
...lonesco puts Shakespeare through a meatgrinder and winds up with something that falls between Monty Python and the Marx Brothers. If this production is more silly than profound, though, much of the dubious credit should go to director Andrei Molotiu, who has turned the play's darker moments into absurd self-parody...