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...first thought, the idea of preserving New York City's 31-year-old Lever House as a historic landmark seems absurd. To some observers, the 24-story, blue-green glass slab seems shabby and unimpressive in the ice canyon of Park Avenue's taller and newer glass slabs. Yet last November the city's unsentimental landmarks preservation commission said that Lever House was worth saving. It pronounced the building in effect as important a memento of America's history as, say, the gilded facade of Grand Central Terminal, about ten blocks down the avenue. Now Fisher...
...vignettes later, however, they swing back from the sarcasm verging on the theater of the absurd in Acting to the tender sincerity of Watching the SLEEPING Lover. As MAN sleeps, WOMAN contemplates him, musing. "You look like my child." The familiar form of the words--a monologue addressed to a silent lover--assists the poetry in the lines: "I embrace you in sleep; my arm moves with your breathing...
...statement that resisters should see the new law as somehow "sharpening" the moral issues, and therefore not protest, is absurd. Civil rights activists in the South did not applaud when a government instituted some new racist measure on top of those already in force. Neither will non-registrants see this law as anything other than further evidence of the Reagan Administration's militarism, to be abhorred no less than the call to registration itself...
...appealing new response has appeared in the form of the album Red All Over by the group Busload of Nuns, featuring the performances of Marc Lowenstein '85 and Andrea Burke '85. The record's somber album jacket is, you guessed it, black and white, but the slyly absurd title is just a harbinger of the album's unexpected jabs at presence and pretension. Red All Over, like a musical rendition of a common old joke, ends up commenting on the failure of reason in a crazy world...
...slogans in a country where they do not apply. Rawlings has declared a "holy war" against Ghana's few professionals-- doctors, engineers, lawyers-- calling them an exploitative class, and going as far as setting up an intricate administrative system to weed out those seeking government jobs. The attack is absurd on a group which has never held power, and it has helped insure the government's own ineptitude...