Word: absurdities
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...Humor is central to many of the works, often as a neo-surrealist celebration of the absurd. Edward Ruscha's can of Spam rocketing across a white canvas and Colin Self's Leopard-skin Nuclear Bomber - No. 2 cannot fail to evoke a smile. Conversely, Roy Lichtenstein manages to take the humor out of the comic-book genre, reducing the style to its purely graphic elements...
...That logic, as I've tried hopelessly to explain, is patently absurd. While it might have been understandable back in the early '90s, when Duke won two consecutive national championships, it really doesn't hold water these days. Sure, the pairing of senior Shane Battier and sophomore Jason Williams has taken college basketball by storm. But these guys work unbelievably hard - and their intelligence on the court belies any charges of complacency. Listen to or read any interview, and you'll find this Duke squad is unfailingly humble, a quality that's getting rare among today's college players...
...entertainment value. Paul Pope has a unique imagination and the talent to realize it. The story feels familiar while the details - a killer with the mask of the horse in Picasso's "Guernica," the hunt for an artist rather than a killer, and absurd stick-figure robots -feel fresh. This combination of new and old basically defines a superior work of genre fiction...
...United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced that it would continue efforts to salvage other Afghan relics targeted for destruction, while museums offered the Taliban funds to transport the remaining objects of historical interest out of the country. But this policy demonstrates the absurd double standard of allocating resources to save art instead of lives. Our willingness to overlook the Taliban's illegitimate control of the statues in the first place is a glaring demonstration of our misplaced priorities in that we would negotiate for art but not for the betterment of living conditions...
...seem to shake their opposition to free trade between the rich and the poor. This bifurcated stance on trade has recently reared its ugly head in the form of the Democratic Party's opposition to the Bush tax cut. The Democrats' latest machinations are both saddening and logically absurd; the best way to help the poor, whether they live in poor nations or rich nations, is to allow them to trade with the rich of all nations...