Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the rough realities of American life in the 1820s, Con Melody lives completely within his genteel fantasy. He despises the local villagers. He believes himself a Byron, standing in the crowd but not of it, and he often strikes an absurd pose before the mirror to recite the poet's lines, reflecting vainly on his lost aristocratic past...
...Montreal, however, she runs out of patience at last. In six months she watches Ginger quit three jobs. When he takes a fourth that pays less than a living wage, she grimly walks out and leaves the big baby to look after himself. His efforts are desperate, pathetic, absurd. But he keeps on making them, and slowly, painfully, out of the mess there begins to emerge...
First and best is the CRIMSON'S megalomaniacal Confidential Guide, looking frighteningly like the real thing, and all smothered in absurd stylistic conceits and kittypaw ambiguities...
...Inheritance, the work of Argentina's Ricardo Alventosa, 33, is a wicked little misanthropic comedy that develops as a spectacular succession of sight gags. The plot is taken from Maupassant's tale of a legacy and the absurd or appalling things three people do to get it; the wit is dry, fast, subtle. When an impotent man looks at an obelisk, he winces. When a sour old spinster finally drops dead, her happy-go-lucky brother sidles up to the death bed, leans forward with a glitter of maniacal triumph in his eyes and deftly distorts her customary...
...Southern California, and with it a crooked Chinese manager who has a lifetime contract. The situation is un promising and the dialogue ("Only registered guests are permitted to drown in the pool") needs mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but inside Mickey Rooney there is a profound sense of the absurd; and last week in moments of wordless action - resisting seduction by Guest Star Dina Merrill or running through downtown streets wearing only a mink coat - he developed humor in the tradition of comic pathos...