Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blum and her team insist that the time had come for women to organize and lead an ascent. This, also, is an absurd way to achieve equality. Skill, not sex should determine who leads a climb. If women have the requisite skill, fine. By all means they should be encouraged to gain leadership. But they also have to bear in mind that, as females, they are a climbing minority...
...gimmick it is. Why should the band be the only entertainment? Let's make the whole thing sophisticated humor in shoulder pads. Theater of the Absurd in an unquestionable ancient setting. It all starts with one phone call...
Special, miniseries, big event: these are the most overused terms in television's absurd lexicon of hype. But in the 1978-79 season, when almost every prime-time show is labeled spectacular by the networks, one mini-series surely justifies the advance billing. That show is Roots: The Next Generations, ABC's sequel to the most popular TV entertainment of all time. When this 14-hour production airs over seven nights in early February, upwards of 100 million viewers may tune in to see if it is a worthy successor to the original Roots. ABC expects a huge...
...pragmatic reasons for participating in the development of an economically rebuilt Vietnam. After all, the U.S. very nearly succeeded in simulating lunar conditions in Vietnam. Carter claimed last year that "the destruction was mutual (and that) we ought not to assume the status of culpability." This position is patently absurd in light of the destruction inflicted on both North and South...
Chutzpah, it must be added, also applies to the people who planned Leverett's outrageous ticket prices and show schedule. Inflation may be rampant, but charging $3 for a House show is absurd and almost menacing--sort of like Chase Manhattan raising the prime lending rate to 15 per cent overnight. And the schedule, which calls for two shows on one night for each of the three-week run, is almost as bad as asking a pitcher to start both ends of a doubleheader. The show runs a whopping two hours and forty-five minutes, and asking any cast...