Word: absurdities
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...close enough to Hitler to feel the Nazi leader's messianic personal force. Even in the early '30s, his memoir makes clear, he was not tempted to underrate the Führer. But the collection of crackbrains and third-raters with which Hitler surrounded himself was absurd enough, by Shirer's account, to suggest a reason for the long years before the Nazis were taken seriously in England...
...Ripped My Flesh and Valley Girl, has gone legit. This week California's Berkeley Symphony Orchestra performs the world premiere of A Zappa Affair, a program of four short ballets. Zappa may have jettisoned the synthesizers and electric guitars, but he has kept his famous sense of the absurd. The ballets-titled Moe 'n' Herb's Vacation, Sinister Footwear, Bob in Dacron and Sad Jane-are performed by giant puppets attached to live performers. "There are a lot of things you can do with puppets that you can't do with dancers," explains Zappa...
...Cabinet of President Hernan Siles Zuazo. Machicado charged that the President had caved in to pressure from the powerful Bolivian Cen tral Labor Union, which led an April gen eral strike to protest belt-tightening mea sures demanded by the International Monetary Fund. Said Machicado: "This renegotiation idea is absurd...
Jerry Garcia in Harvard Stadium? The thought itself seems prima facie absurd, but that's what the Undergraduate Council almost pulled off last fall...
...PATENTLY ABSURD to portray the disruption of Caspar W. Weinberger '38's speech as a violation of freedom. It was a defense of liberty and a statement of outrage at its usurpation. The behavior exhibited by the students who shouted him down would indeed be unacceptable if Weinberger were not who he is. But as spokesman for the Reagan Administration's war policies. Weinberger has no problem getting his views across, ludicrous as they are. He has all major media at his beck and call unlike the students who stood up to his propaganda. This fact alone would...