Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what wit the characters do have. With the exception of Bryan W. Leach '00 as the staunchly paranoid Yossariar everyone in the cast exhudes two distinct talents: the ability to play a number of extremely different characters, and the ability to make each of them as delightfully absurd as possible. The script itself a tight-laced tango of double entendred and hysterically ironic scenarios, could only be mastered by a group of actor with impeccable comic timing and greaversatility. Particularly notable are Jame A. Carmichael '01 as the dry Lt. Co-Korn; Michael P. Davidson '00 as the stereotypical Italian...
Finally, the story culminates in a crazy scene of destruction, mayhem and death, that introduces more new characters than it uses old ones. The instanity that ensues crosses the line from the meaningfully absurd to the violently and almost tiringly preposterous...
...Midden is a story about corruption and hypocrisy in various public and private institutions of British society. Throughout the book, Sharpe uses a collection of outrageous and at times excessively absurd characters to criticize various societal groups. From fanatical child abuse therapists to corrupt police, from old and decadent wealthy families to spoiled and exploitative former British colonials, the crackpots are out in force. The description of these characters, including their myriad eccentricities and largely disreputable motives, provides the book with its substance...
...marvel of makeshift precision and comic redundancy (just imagine a wheel riding a cart!), and these moments of transcendent anthropomorphism simultaneously account for the film's humor and its morbid undercurrent. Eventually the series will break down or burn out, and the redundancy of individual steps will seem an absurd observation in the context of an elaborate but useless machine...
Everybody knows that money is a crucial ingredient in a school's success. There is something absurd, and deeply unfair, about a nationwide system of funding that provides the least amount of money to the most impoverished students. But cries of poverty obscure the role of other, equally powerful forces that determine how well a school system manages the money it does get. Each year, schools receive a torrent of funds. Exactly where this money ends up, however, is often something of a mystery, embedded in budgets that might as well have been written in Sanskrit...