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...only negotiations we’ve been granted are absurd questions about space,” PSLM member Amy C. Offner ’01 said. “They think this is an excellent way to distract us from the living wage issue...
...That can’t be true,’ but I thought it merited further examination so I wrote this poem: ‘I’m Perfect at Feelings.’” While she read, a dry sense of the absurd rose out of many of her poems, making me realize that I had probably read them unfairly. She showed us where the jokes were, and her relaxed and earnest reading style contrasted well with that of Trethewey. Shaughnessy did read some of her characteristic sticky-wicket phrases with the undue candor that...
...adaptation, it looks like this shabby attempt at thrills and chills will be quickly relegated to the "been there, done that" pile. What with rampant murders, prosthetic faces, and a thermos full of diamonds thrown out a train window (don't ask), Along Came A Spider verges on the absurd. One would at least think that Freeman is talented and dependable enough to be able to choose better movies. Or maybe screenwriter Marc Moss just has to learn that what may be good on the page is not necessarily good when transferred to the screen...
...Humor is central to many of the works, often as a neo-surrealist celebration of the absurd. Edward Ruscha's can of Spam rocketing across a white canvas and Colin Self's Leopard-skin Nuclear Bomber - No. 2 cannot fail to evoke a smile. Conversely, Roy Lichtenstein manages to take the humor out of the comic-book genre, reducing the style to its purely graphic elements...
...That logic, as I've tried hopelessly to explain, is patently absurd. While it might have been understandable back in the early '90s, when Duke won two consecutive national championships, it really doesn't hold water these days. Sure, the pairing of senior Shane Battier and sophomore Jason Williams has taken college basketball by storm. But these guys work unbelievably hard - and their intelligence on the court belies any charges of complacency. Listen to or read any interview, and you'll find this Duke squad is unfailingly humble, a quality that's getting rare among today's college players...