Word: absurdities
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...field day in this time of Watergate and Cambodia et al., proclaiming Seagull a book of hope and comparing it to St. Exupery. But author Richard Bach is much too blatant in this expanded greeting card. He gives way to gimickry in place of the soft and the absurd. His seagull is too ambitious, and too successful...
...diehard James Bond freak-and even then you'll probably be disappointed. Roger Moore is too weak to pull off the 007 role, and the movie survives by showing off its stunts. Lots of busted up cars, villians with arms shaped like lobster claws, and absurd amphibious chase scenes. Music Hall...
...THERE are other noblemen desiring the kingdom of Corinth: Paidoboron, the weather-beaten visionary of the North, who reads in the stars impending doom; and Koprophoros, the mystic Asiatic, who suggests finally that reason alone is not good enough in Jason's absurd world, and that men cannot deny the passions of their bodies. The philosophical argument is set: reason vs. love, mind vs. body, nature vs. civilization, law vs. chaos. And through it all there is another voyage. John Gardner too, has set out on an impossible quest. Oddly enough he has Jason pronounce his presence...
...Mouse that Roared, classic Peter Sellers in three roles, classic British humor that ranges from the understated to the totally absurd. The scene of Sellers' army marching into an empty New York is not only very striking, but it makes one wonder if the right side won the American revolutionary war. Channel...
Excluding an approach merely because it has not yet answered the important questions it has asked is absurd at best. At worst, it smacks of ideological bias to ignore an approach which shakes deeply held beliefs...