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Seemingly trying to retain the comedy of the Meaning of Life while substituting real meaning for satire, Razor's Edge instead becomes a kind of home movie version of Murray's journeys around the world with outtakes from failed soap opera pilots. to distinguish the comic absurd from the would-be serious drama, director John Byrum uses Jack Netzshe's heavy-handed music and a seemingly endless stock of orange sunsets to highlight the shifts to real drama that his direction and Murray's acting leave otherwise undistinguished...
...reluctant to address the self-sacrifice point made by Bok because it seems so absurd, but for the sake of tho roughness I want to state my conviction that the wizards who run the Harvard corporation could mastermind a divestment plan that would incur no financial loss to the University. Bok wonders why divestment is more forceful than the university's statements against apartheid. How much force is there in Harvard's expressed abhorrence of apartheid when in its financial dealings it is supporting the apartheid regime, which has promised never to eliminate the racial discrimination it stands for? Harvard...
Similar critiques can be made of post-debate commentary, and of the absurd practice of deciding who "won." Both practices tend to obscure what actually happened, and to leave a different image in the mind of each viewer. Why couldn't the League president have been the moderator? Why couldn't distinguished former elected officials, from all points of the political spectrum, have constituted the panel? At least then a tendency to digress from the true subject of the evening would have been understandable, even expected, and could have been expressly forbidden beforehand...
...Grenada invasion for 90 minutes as his sole foreign policy success. He could do little to defend his economic program-considered his strongest point. He will look even older and frailer when he has to answere for the first time in public, for three Lebanon bombings, his absurd nuclear posture toward the Soviet Union, his inability to assert American influence over anything larger than a golf course, and what amounts to terrorist activity in Nicaragua...
...case, notes Benjamin Kaplan, a retired Massachusetts judge and a professor of Law emeritus, "Any notion that a Law Review article could over-whehn a judge is absurd...