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...label as absurd Larry Flynt's charge that the shooting was an attempt to stop his assassination investigation [March 20]? Are you psychic...
Then there are the classics. Interested? What's the matter, are you trying to get educated or something? It's true, of course, that this weekend offers two landmark works of twentieth-century drama (Ionesco's brilliantly wacky, Theatre-of-the-Absurd The Bald Soprano and Beckett's masterpiece of nihilism and humanity, Waiting for Godot), but wouldn't you really rather indulge in a little anarchy? If you insist, the Ionesco is at the B.A.G. Lunchtime Theater (267-7196), today, Friday and next Wednesday at 12:10 and 1:10 p.m.; the Beckett is at the Boston Arts Group...
Thomas Szasz will speak April 11 at Ford Hall in Boston on "The Myth of Mental Illness." If you're feeling like you're the only sane person in an absurd world, this could be therapeutic...
Nonetheless, opponents promised to continue fighting. Last week they offered four crippling amendments to the second treaty. Each was knocked down by overwhelming majorities, including an absurd proposal put forth by Wyoming Republican Malcolm Wallop. It called for return of the canal to the U.S. if either country violated the new treaties. New York Democrat Patrick Moynihan angrily called the idea "inane" and "devoid of intellectual content." Said he: "We are reducing the Senate to a playground of juvenilia, a playpen of prepubescent youth." After colleagues objected to the unusual personal attack, Moynihan apologized...
...After last week's attempt on his life, Flynt's wife Althea, 24, publicly accused the CIA of shooting Flynt because he was about to publish the names of J.F.K.'s assassins in a Free Press special edition. From his hospital bed, Flynt himself made the absurd charge that the shooting was an attempt to stop his assassination inquiry...