Word: absurdity
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Home Free! takes harrowing leaps from childish play to deadly seriousness, and the actors are up to the challenge. The audience finds itself appalled, amused and saddened all at once. Spinger’s Joanna is perfect; though she interacts with Lawrence in his restricted, absurd world, she makes it clear that she is in charge and has maintained at least a tentative grip on reality...
...column had specific reference to a small group of people directly involved in or celebrating the brutal attacks of Sept. 11. Hasan’s assertion that Coulter “openly advocated the wholesale destruction of the entire Muslim and Arab world” is inaccurate, offensive and absurd. At the event, at least, she did not “brazenly advocat[e] cleansing American soil of [all] Muslims,” but responded to questioners only by suggesting that for security reasons, illegal immigrants who could no longer be legally detained for suspected terrorism ought to be deported...
...Among the more feeble-minded responses to September 11 was an obsession with the numerology of the date and the fact that the twin towers in outline constituted the number 11. To adherents of this absurd science, however, the association between 11 points in Boggle and the word "quagmire" may be truly spooky...
...more relevant to "Comics Decode" are his slide shows. Never a straight reading, he frames his presentations in a loose lecture format with titles like, "Halftone Printing in the Yiddish Press and Other Objects of Idol Worship." But the lectures consist of the kind of vaguely-plausible-but-absurd nonsense that make up the majority of Katchor's work. He essentially becomes a character in a one-man-show that features the reading of comix...
...Boston’s Tremont Playhouse. And although its sister production, The Soprano’s Last Supper, mines much the same material for laughs, each show manages to stand on its own and win laughs as a thorough and tremendously funny send-up of, and tribute to, the absurd pop culture depiction of Italian-Americans...