Word: absurdism
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...horror devotees know, reciting “Candyman” five times to a mirror leads to the appearance of demonic killer The Candyman (Todd). In this absurd final installment of the series, The Candyman kills all the associates of distant relative Caroline McKeever (D’Errico), framing her in the hope that she will join him as a legendary killing machine. This is a perfect flick for watching with friends while imbibing massive amounts of alcohol. Think 93 minutes of mocking terrible dialogue, marveling at Baywatch Babe D’Errico’s beautiful body, or mastering...
...government risked a legal mess by aiming for a politically popular conviction? "Everybody played by the rules," says Andrew McBride, a former federal prosecutor in Virginia who believes Moussaoui belonged in a military tribunal from the start. "But the rules led to some dramatic and absurd results in this case." Veteran Virginia defense lawyer Nina Ginsberg, on the other hand, says the system is working exactly as it should. Brinkema was right, she says, to "not totally destroy" a defendant's right to use exculpatory witnesses to get a fair trial...
...Dewis’s Fistula, however, that most deserves positive acknowledgement. Charismatic and professional, Dewis projects more of a presence than anyone else in the cast: though Havel’s translated prose seems to want to use an absurd straightforwardness to jarring effect, this sensation only comes across when connected with Dewis’ forceful delivery. Indeed, it is only when Fistula is onstage that the production achieves the disturbing surreality it seems to try to achieve elsewhere: a second act monologue in which Fistula invokes the impossibility of Satanic forgiveness against a swelling background of chanting is honestly...
...themed network (I’m being conservative and not counting E!) and a pay-per-view channel available only to DirecTV’s 11.5 million American subscribers, and it’s clear that gays are not, in fact, taking television audiences hostage. Beyond being patently absurd, the “too gay” notion is also offensive: the equation of homosexuality with sex and violence, as a reality to be taken only in small doses, is ignorant and hurtful...
...absurd as it may seem to the uninitiated—and as impossible as it would have been for me to predict a few years ago—it has been Radcliffe, which used to be the women’s college here at Harvard, that has helped to define my undergraduate experience and my understanding of my university and its history. That history is still unfolding, and the shockingly imbalanced ratio of female to male tenured Harvard faculty alone makes clear that there are still miles to go before we sleep. (Only 18.3 percent of senior faculty members...