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...absurd situation arose because Congress, under its own laws, must pass by Sept. 15 a resolution detailing how much the Government can count on taking in through taxes, how much it can spend, and how big a deficit it can figure on running in the new fiscal year. This election year, the Democrats, who control both houses of Congress, could not bring themselves to admit that recession and inflation would push the balanced budget, which they had agreed on proudly in the spring, into deficit by at least $40 billion. Republicans obviously would not help them out of their dilemma...
...FROM THE ABSURD MURAL-SIZED photos on his plush apartment's walls (a blow-up of the famous 1968 Saigon street execution turns the victim's head into a grimacing window) to the tiny pain-pricks of romance (buying lunch for screaming kids), Allen's split-version of suffering remains the same: On the one hand, he inarticulately asserts the need to end human suffering; on the other, he has a fierce desire to sprint blindly into the open arms of a beautiful woman. With no resolution of this dilemma at hand, and unable to make a choice and stick...
Because Woody Allen, like Fellini, has an acute sense of the absurd, he can see as much humor in his own splintered isolation as he can in the clumsy attempts of outsiders to break into the cage, to crash the cocktail party inside his head. Stardust Memories is a schizoid invitation to that party. The card says: COME ONE, COME ALL. BRING YOUR OWN BOOS. And in a fine hand at the bottom you can read: TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT...
...from it all grips everyone now and then, and the jet airliner has made most of the world accessible. Or has it? Author Paul Fussell, 56, thinks not: "I am assuming that travel is now impossible and that tourism is all we have left." The statement seems, at first, absurd: more people are going more places than ever before. But Fussell argues convincingly that there are too many of them, and that no one is doing it the right way: "Perhaps the closest one could approach an experience of travel in the old sense today would be to drive...
...Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, who, as Hedgehog, ran the menagerie of animal-named agents known to the Gestapo as Noah's Ark. Schoenbrun threads expertly through the bewildering tangle of alliances and hostilities that is the history of the Resistance. He is particularly skilled at portraiture, notably the grand, absurd, indomitable figure of De Gaulle, at one point trying to rewrite General Eisenhower's D-day speech; at another point refusing to fly in an American bomber until it was repainted with French colors; and finally insisting that a French car, not a U.S. Jeep, be found to carry...