Word: absurdities
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...California and presidential aspirant: The peace movement in Europe has spread across the ocean, and back into Eastern Europe, I might add. Another factor is that Ronald Reagan frightens people. The rhetoric has alarmed people. The calls for huge increases in defense spending make us wonder. So have the absurd statements by Administration officials that a nuclear war can be survived, if one has a shovel and can dig a hole fast enough. It's a form of sickness not to face up to and deal with the situation. But people are beginning to emerge from that sickness...
...inevitably takes this image of childhood romantic vision too far. Luisa tells how she sits and dreams--and then tells how she hugs herself until her arms turn blue. Again and again, a potentially moving moment is totally transformed with a wink of the eye, as it suddenly becomes absurd. An initially pleasant duet between Luisa and Matt (Vaughn Winchell) becomes odd--to say the least--when it breaks into a cheerful counterpoint of Matt singing. "You are love!," and Luisa rejoining, "I am love...
...whole rape scene provides the scene for some light comic interplay. A rather sardonic but winning El Gallo (Rich Dikeman) steps forwards to stage the event, for a price. Enlisting a pair of dubious Shakespearian actors, who have their moments in a rather absurd subplot. El Gallo pulls off what he calls a "first-class rape...
...play's strength lies not in its great insights into the human condition. It is a funny, sprightly musical that seems to say that love is absurd, that it has a way of sinking to the banalities of a badly written romance, but that love is allowed to appear banal, because it never really...
...could produce a tolerant, pluralistic government. Democratic Congressman Michael Barnes of Maryland, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs, insists: "We can go to the table knowing what we will not concede-ultimate power. To say the only outcome is a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship is absurd." Adds Senator Gary Hart, Democrat from Colorado: "I'm not wildly optimistic about negotiations working, but at least we would be honest brokers rather than military promoters...