Word: absurdistly
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...playful as well as pointedly satirical. He once suggested new rules for football (sample: leave the injured on the field), proposed that the Miss America Pageant "make the losers keep coming back until they win," and offered a new restaurant idea: all you can eat, to go. These are absurdist brainstorms that, in a few choice words, conjure up Marx Brothers movies...
Comics aren't just for the funny papers anymore. Although profound and absurdist cartoons are as old as Thomas Nast's Tamnammy Hall caricatures and the 1920's "Krazy Kat," the cartoonist's art exploded into a vast panopoly of styles in the 1980s. The New Comics Anthology, edited by Bob Callahan, provides the neophyte comics reader with a diverse representation of the most skilled cartoonists of the post-modern...
...question raised last week by the newest work of Poland's Krzysztof Penderecki, 57, a leading European composer who has increasingly been changing the gardes, from avant to rear. UBU REX, which opened the Munich Opera Festival, is based on the 1896 play Ubu roi, by French Absurdist Alfred Jarry, about a loathsome clod (read: typical bourgeois) who murders the King of Poland and, supplanting him, ruins the country. Yet even with the events of the past two years before him, Penderecki draws no particular political symbolism from the text, and his harmless, rather charmless tonal score simply galumphs forgettably...
Director David Gammons '92 disagrees: he says that A Theological Position was "definitely" a feminist play, "but from a skewed perspective. It talks about the issues in an extreme sort of way, in an absurdist way...It's smart enough not to have to resolve the issues." The issues in question are the underlying power relations that feminism has revealed but not yet changed. The violent sex scene that so many found disturbing in A Theological Position reflected a brutality present in many forms in our society; the play was more a condemnation of that brutality than an example...
quality of an allegory without its depth of meaning. Presumably, this is intentional--the promotions for the play reading "Dorf on Life" announce its vaguely allegorical purpose. The text offers an absurdist vision that is as empty as a Zen koan, as resonant as the sound of one hand clapping. Rob and Bobby's disclosures on Life read like something off a fortune cookie or bumper sticker: "A life full of love is like being a poor person with a refrigerator--you don't have one," and "Life's a marathon and then you run one." Best...