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Word: absurdities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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After one particularly long Wallop monologue, this absurd exchange took place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Civiletti: A G.O.P. Hostage | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...times that amount got through. A pound of marijuana costs $40 in Colombia and brings $500 in New York. Says Don Turnbaugh, chief of Customs patrol in Miami: "The situation is out of control. We're fighting at best a holding action. To think of stopping them is absurd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Pot Smugglers' Paradise | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...short, a solitary man. But his solitude seems greater in this country than elsewhere simply because of the patronizing attitude towards him. Too many Americans view him merely as a veteran writer of a moss-grown movement called the "Theatre of the Absurd" (he prefers the name "Theatre of Derision"), whose one-act plays are occasionally performed in high-school French classes. Few people know anything of his latest plays, and fewer still of his politics. (His latest work, a collection of political essays entitled Antidotes (1977), has yet to arrive in Boston...

Author: By James Ulmer, | Title: An Interview With Eugene Ionesco | 3/9/1978 | See Source »

Ionesco is a leading figure of the "Theater of the Absurd" and the author of such internationally produced plays as "The Bald Soprano," "Rhonoceros," "Exit the King" and "The Killer...

Author: By James Ulmer, | Title: Ionesco Screens Movie Before Overflow Audience | 3/3/1978 | See Source »

...That's why punks get into anarchy and disorganization; it's really a reaction to the absurd organization which has taken all the creativity out of music that's been coming out over the past few years," Joe explains...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Even Punks Sing the Blues | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

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