Word: absurdities
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...Presbyterians to say that homosexuality is no more a sin than pride, greed or adultery is absurd...
...last ten years, are on exhibit. These works, despite their optimistically bright colors, their fantasy and their wit, despite the simplicity of the cut-out shapes that compose many of the pictures, express many of the original ideas that animated the Surrealist movement. There is a delight in the absurd and the childish here but, at the same time, you feel almost as if the artist was playing a rather bizarre joke on his audience. He presents shapes and figures that are not the abstractions they appear to be, but symbols. And what you, as an individual viewer...
...shared his indignation. Under a new antipornography law that had been signed the very day the show opened, the cops raided the place and seized some 43 drawings and paintings. City Solicitor Ronald Glantz hoped, however, that he would not have to prosecute. Said he: "The whole thing is absurd. The law is unconstitutional. We'd have to put shorts on half of the city's statues...
...fictitious-but-powerful Hoffaesque labor boss. But one cannot help but wonder why such a story is necessary, except as a vehicle for the portrayal of random, gratuitous and organized violence--both management and union-instigated--with the imprimatur of Rocky legitimacy provided by Stallone, and sealed, in absurd enough fashion, with a fist...
...threat of the possible intervention of Cuban troops. It is a sign of the decline of our world position that we have inflicted on ourselves through Viet Nam, the collapse of Executive authority produced by Watergate, and our own internal disputes. Twenty years ago this would have been considered absurd, and it is a proposition that is bound to undermine our position around the world...