Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Husk & Ash. With all the trials that camping brings-even with all its absurd concessions to civilized living-the one overwhelming fact about it is that the great mountains and forests of the U.S. are such indestructible marvels, and so mysteriously instructive to man's nature, that even the most unabashed dude and his togetherness-mad neighbor in the sprawl of Tent City return from a camping trip stronger for their experience...
...triumphing evil; both were "a pair of blackguards." But in Anouilh's world it is the blackguards, or at least the politically committed, who ultimately survive. And, as the play develops, the survival of Creon--who capitulates to corruption so that he can "introduce a little order into this absurd kingdom"--becomes increasingly more interesting than the deaths of Antigone and Haemon...
...lifetime, Honore Victorin Daumier was known chiefly as a relentless political cartoonist, but a few contemporaries appreciated him for the gifted painter that he was. "Daumier," wrote the poet Baudelaire, "knows all the absurd misery, all the folly, all the pride of the small bourgeois-this type that is at once commonplace and eccentric-for he has lived intimately with them and loves them." Last week the serious side of Honore Daumier was on view at Lon don's Tate Gallery in 231 paintings and drawings, the biggest Daumier show in 60 years. Daumier's reputation...
...hawk-nosed, bearded officer in an absurd helmet gives a wild salute in a marvelous parody of Prussian militarism. A bulbous official with his face painted red rides by on the most overburdened of horses. His face is turned upward, his eyes blind to the two natives trudging at the horse's side...
...absurd side of this nonsense is that Elvis is much too good for the show. He is, in fact, the best actor in the film. The deep-pile sideburns have been clipped slightly, and something-perhaps German umlauts learned in the Army-has strengthened the rosebud mouth. He behaves with considerable authority, and shows his dramatic ability by containing his laughter when Hope Lange says (to the lad who was buying Cadillacs before he was 21): "Don't try to tell me you're just a barefoot country...