Word: absurdities
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...notion of a teacher curbing his or her anger long enough to go through this whole rigmarole before letting fly is both absurd and touching in its respect for due process. At any rate, the decision (to the extent that anyone will pay attention to it) may have healthy results...
...play is full of gallows humor. In one scene, straight out of the theater of the absurd, Hingle, raging over his daughter's abortive life, tries to throttle a cadaver in front of the relatives of the dead...
...believe, empathise and imagine him. But on the screen it doesn't work. The camera strips away that imaginative process and instead offers a voice-over for Blood's thoughts, making him sound like a disembodied canine version of Mr. Ed, spouting bits of arcane knowledge. If it sounds absurd, it is, and with the premise of A Boy And His Dog destroyed, the film slowly collapses...
...solemn pronouncements of these cloistered radical groups seem pretty ridiculous. But it appears that Harrington, in his anxiety to avoid ever appearing absurd again, has fallen prey to another pitfall. For the socialist there is always the danger of allowing one's political identity to be blurred, forgetting exactly what it is that makes a socialist's world-view different from that of people with a stake in capitalist institutions...
Only Magritte and Leger - and in his different way, Nadelman. He could take a bowler hat and, perching it on the head of Mercury, give it a classical density as form. The headgear worn by his Man in a Top Hat (1927) has the formal and slightly absurd dignity of an old liner's funnel, played off against the scrolly beard and bronze blade of a nose...