Word: absurdism
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...figure. Schwarzenegger took the genre, amped up its testosterone and then finished it off with a huge and merry dollop of irony. He was one of the first major movie stars who winked at the audience, understanding that they too were intelligent enough to see through the pyrotechnics and absurd dialogue to be amused by the pure entertainment of the spectacle. In his first two careers, Arnold deeply understood both the bohemian and conservative aspects of the popular culture of which he was a part. He immersed himself in them and helped bring them together...
...criticisms of Wainwright are drowned out by his grandiose orchestrations so beautiful and absurd. This album is a fairytale, lullaby, satire and love poem...
...jettisoned as soon as possible. The premise that requiring students to learn a language at Harvard is a waste of their time, as many of them have already mastered languages in high school and do not need to waste their precious college careers continuing with them is patently absurd. First of all, the standards currently acceptable are far too low. Right now one can “place out” of a Harvard language requirement with a 600 score on the SAT II. As every student knows, those standards are risibly low; not only does one not need...
...were influential. A year ago, Tom Warrick, a career State Department official, assembled a Future of Iraq project that brought together more than 200 Iraqis in working groups with U.S. officials observing. The I.N.C. joined only one of the working groups. Chalabi's people dismiss the whole exercise as absurd. "We just thought it was a joke," says an I.N.C. official. Says another: "The idea that there was a well-organized project at the State Department that was producing sophisticated postwar planning is ridiculous. The scholarship was at the high school--essay level." Others believe I.N.C. and its allies...
...consume more treasure than [those who backed the war] had ever reckoned" [AFTER 9/11: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?, Sept. 15]. That statement is undoubtedly true. But the idea that even those who opposed the war "now have to accept that there is no turning back" is absurd. There are plenty of patriotic Americans who don't accept President Bush's course of action. Freeing Iraq from Saddam Hussein is a noble cause. The problem is that we have failed. Saddam is still alive, and our swaggering has created worldwide resentment against the U.S. and increased terrorism. DOREEN PUGH...