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...publication of J.K. Huysmans' manifesto of decadence, A Rebours, in 1884. Moreau was then 58, a Parisian born and bred, praised in the salon, an officer of the Legion of Honor, a mature and respected figure with a strong academic bias. The fictional hero of A Rebours, that absurd purple monster des Esseintes, was described as owning two of his paintings. One was the elaborate Salome Dancing Before Herod, 1876 (see color page...
...this enveloping character of metamorphic fantasy that Miró responded. A painting like Landscape (The Hare) is its reduction: the horizon line drawn clean as a wire, yet with an irrational undular flourish; the absurd and soulful hare, like a creature from a comic strip. Its gaze is fixed on what appears to be a rifle ball, ricocheting in a spiral from the gun of a disembodied hunter. The color, too, is unique - the broad planes of earth and sky like a flag, interspersed by echoing flecks of red, or ange and yellow on the body of the hare...
...absurd-low in Administration secrecy. The Congressional Joint Economic Committee planned to hold hearings last week on the state of the economy. Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns and Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Herbert Stein readily agreed to give their assessments. But Kenneth Rush, Nixon's new economic coordinator, refused on grounds of Executive privilege...
...Street, which had been entertaining itself with sky-high earnings forecasts. About two years ago, for example, Analyst Ralph Kaplan of Oppenheimer & Co. was predicting that Polaroid profits would rise to $8.35 a share by 1976, v. a record $2.19 in 1969-an expectation that even Polaroid executives thought absurd. Recently Kaplan revised his prediction of 1976 earnings to a far more conservative $4.35 a share-still more than 2½ times the $1.58 a share that the company actually earned in 1973. The stock has been hypersensitive to such concessions to reality because, as recently as last summer...
...judge turned back to St. Clair: "The White House conduct in this case is totally offensive," he declared. "It borders on obstruction." Referring to the barring of Ehrlichman's lawyer from the files, Gesell added: "It's absurd. I don't see how I can tolerate it. I'm astounded, totally astounded. It's totally offensive to our entire concept of justice...