Word: absurdities
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...California: trouble with floodlights that disturbed his delivery; his stationery was used again to tell potential large donors to keep their cash because he preferred to get a lot of collections from less affluent givers. Given the normal chance for foulups in any political campaign, it would be absurd to suggest that all of these incidents were the result of sabotage. But Segretti's activities provide ample reason for suspicion...
...settings--bedrooms, forests, deserts, in short anyplace a secluded camera can be set up--all lead to the inevitable loveless consummation. The camera is incessantly at low-angles to catch the flash of panties or the roundness of a buttock. One soon learns to expect gratuitous shower scenes and absurd double-entendre conversations. The best films are usually unpredictable, but when all roads lead to the bedroom one need not be oracular to foresee what's just beyond the next hump...
...moment, Hugonot and Philibert are concentrating on re-educating the elderly to think young, but they have ambitious-if still somewhat amorphous-plans for reforming society to make re-education unnecessary. "Today's distribution of periods for education, work and leisure is absurd," Philibert explains. "A child spends 20 years in school, and at the end he never wants to study again. As an adult, he spends 30 years at work, usually doing something that requires no creativity. When he finally retires after this life of stagnation, small wonder that cerebral and physical atrophy set in. Education should...
WHITE SISTER, never certain whether to be a farce or a tearjerker, finally settles for being just absurd. Sophia Loren appears as the most ravishing nun in Eu rope; she gave her life to mother church after her boyfriend got deep-fried in an oil fire. She ministers to the sick and the infirm as head of an Italian hospital, which is riddled with both political strife and human tragedy. The movie is unrelentingly simpleminded, and treats all subjects from cardiac ar rests to brimming bedpans with a jovial mixture of high spirits, low comedy and bad taste. Loren breezes...
Proud Flesh includes, however, one fine set piece of the absurd: the mock-epic failure of a farmer named Hugo to get his cotton to the town gin, in a truck with five bad tires (counting the spare), on a road monopolized by a brindled milch cow named Trixie. Here calculated excess works in the cause of comic relief, suggesting that the future of the Southern novel may belong to the tall tale rather than further variations on the gothic. Melvin Maddocks