Word: absurdities
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QUOTE: "Listen there's a lot of talk that I might try and play basketball along with hockey this winter. This is patently absurd. The soil conservation program in the winter. This is patently absurd. The soil conservation program in the winter gets difficult and I need all the time to get the fires going so we can keep the nitrogen fixers warm and cozy. Hey, it's not this tough in Hotel Administration...
Elements of drawing room comedy and theatre of the absurd clash to give Ionesco's play the kind of dramatic tension that makes it simple to perform. A staccato delivery of lines can gloss over non-sequiturs and permits the development of superficially logical chains of reasoning with incredible conclusions, all with the general end of lampooning the English middle class...
...PLOT EXISTS only as an excuse for a commentary on English life. The juxtaposition of ridiculous assertions, pursuit of any sane comment to an absurd extreme, and traditional shots at all symbols of Britannic complacency dominate the play without any competition from attempts at character development or plot conflict. It all manages to be very entertaining, and the actors, in this production deliver their lines quickly enough to build up a perverse momentum that carries the play through all but its most brutal moments...
...door is not really sustained by the cast. And the climactic scene--in which the two couples march ground in a circle screaming. "It's not that way it's over here," and jabbing their index fingers upward with increasing speed--is ridiculous rather than absurd...
...this last clause was soothing to Marlborough (whose client for the Rousseau, Italian Industrialist Gianni Agnelli, instantly cancelled the deal when the story broke), it was balm to Hoving, who derides the A.D.A. statement as "an absurd document-perfectly specious and contradictory." The Rousseau, he adds, "was of no importance to us" (although the Met owns only one other). This is not a view shared by most art experts or by Marlborough's senior partner, Frank Lloyd, who says, "In my opinion, it's a masterwork." Hoving defends the disputed sale in terms of the need to trim...