Word: absurdism
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That alone makes their 2002 season one of the weirdest in baseball history. But it gets more absurd. Assuming the Expos wouldn't exist, baseball commissioner Bud Selig let owner Jeffrey Loria buy the Florida Marlins. When Loria went South, he took with him the Expos' manager, coaching staff, all the team's computers and a complete set of team uniforms--souvenirs of futility. Now the Expos are orphans, literally wards of the baseball state, property of the other 29 owners...
...only required to have nice smiles, hot bodies and fantastic hair. These things they have in spades?and not a tattoo or pierced body part among them. In Taiwan, these squeaky clean little love boys are being held up as model spouses. If that sounds absurd, remember that this is a place where 93% of couples say they are unhappy in matrimony and 34% of marriages end in divorce. "F4 are so popular because women cannot find romance in real life," says Angie Chai, general manager of Comic Productions and creator...
...make a mistake? By pulling money out of her 401(k) when the market was tanking? Some might call her prescient. "To Gen Xers, what looks like common knowledge--that you leave your 401(k) alone--is absurd," says author Tulgan. "They think: I don't know about the future. But I know about now. And the money's right there. I'm going to bet it on myself...
...just too easy: juxtaposition and titillation equal humor. Yet when the subject is tackled not as a plot twist, but as a main topic, for a new play with no less an author than Edward Albee, attention must be paid. Could Albee, the master of exploring the absurd to gain insight into the mundane, have found a path to stinging profundity through bestiality? Had he combined the best of both worlds—serious commentary with some animal sex jokes thrown in along the way? The disappointing answer is no. Though its aspirations may be high, The Goat...
...more to the point, because it’s meant to shock. But it’s tough to wring shock value from material that’s no longer shocking. Jerry Springer has covered this material with regularity. Albee’s own envelope-pushing theater of the absurd has helped bring us to the point of no trumping taboos...