Word: absurdism
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...smart these days. We've grown so inured to the often unbelievable nonsense on television, or the absurd chain emails we gather in our inboxes, that the idea of a hysteria-inciting radio (radio!) play is laughable. So try, for a spell, to put yourself in the shoes of listeners who tuned in 70 years ago to The Mercury Theater on the Air's performance of The War of the Worlds...
...Criticizing Obama by suggesting he isn't American enough is absurd. America is a nation of immigrants; they built it and thrived in it. I would say that because Barack Obama exemplifies this melting pot, he is more American than many of us. But this brand of attack is not new, as the article implies. I think of the 1920s and the red scare and the extreme nationalism that led to immigrant quotas and mob violence. Don't we all look back at that time and shudder at how we treated those who came from another place? Our incredible ingenuity...
...relate to the unusual circumstances in which the characters are embroiled, Perez-Torres believes that the fundamental emotional struggle is universal. “If you have any empathy at all, you understand what Martin is going through and realize that [his situation] isn’t as absurd as you would think,” he says...
...Gore’s speech, which roused the crowd to loud applause on several occasions, tied themes of political and economic uncertainty to the environmental crisis and to “our absurd overdependence on carbon based fuels...
...Live,” the protagonists are young, bored, and otherwise desensitized by a culture supersaturated with highly stylized images of luxury and glamour. Godard explores this self-referential obsession with American cinema and culture, while simultaneously parodying it—several of these protagonists meet with violent, seemingly absurd, ends.Today’s popular cinema seems to view Godard’s work with a mixture of voyeurism and cultural amnesia. His early films have the power to disorient, confuse, shock, and dazzle in a way that is totally isolated from the medium of popular cinema. Contemporary filmmakers...