Word: absurdly
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...Swan, juicily played by Paul Williams, who also composed the film's good score. Swan in turn owes his power to an earlier Faustian deal of his own, a pact that borrows a few wrinkles from Dorian Gray's compact. This repetition reduces contemporary middlebrow mythomania to absurd shambles...
...social wounds. His use of previously forbidden words to make jokes about subjects long forbidden in public was in some small way liberating. Bruce insisted in his routines that all of us-Presidents and Popes, straights and gays, celebrities and commoners-share equally in the obscene anguish of an absurd existence. And he really should not have been punished for making the point...
Mert and Phil is a jarring mismatch between the drama of oppressive realism and the theater of the absurd. It is scabrous in word and action. Some of it is quite funny; some of it is extremely sad. It possesses a barbed honesty that obviously unsettled some of the playgoers who hissed and booed it on opening night, as well as several of the critics. Declaring a personal auto-da-fe WNEW-TV's usually commonsensical critic Stewart Klein declared that he wished to burn Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater and Director-Producer Joseph Papp...
...This study has no potential good," said Beckwith. "To suggest that an extra Y chromosome causes criminal behavior is absurd...
...organized recruitment program by questioning the validity of such programs in general. In addition, several of the graduate school's department chairmen--who are ultimately responsible for admissions--justify the small number of blacks by saying there is a lack of qualified applicants. These cyclical arguments are absurd...