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...pretended to be. Following the tradition of "animal fables," all the flatterers who cluster around Volpone ("the fox") bear animal names which indicate the faults they personify--for instance a lawyer is known as Voltore, "the vulture." Almost all of these characters are as avaricious and as absurd as Volpone is, and they too are defeated and mocked at the end of the play...
...Suburban Sartre and soap-opera sensibilities are the springs from which three moderns drink in Murray Schisgal's hilarious satire of the chatter of Freudian analysis and the jargon of the theater of the absurd...
...channeling-although an irony of her position is that many Berkeley "New Left" students think Communism anachronistic. She has to keep explaining that her party is "in the forefront of social advances," and that other left-wing movements tend to be "too left-so left they're absurd...
Fashion editors seem disinclined to take such sniping seriously. "The whole argument is absurd," shrugs Harper's Bazaar Fashion Director Gwen Randolph. "Sure, we get lots of complaints from designers, but we get lots of compliments too. Some complaints come from designers who are older and not with it. Actually, fashion photography today, insofar as photographers take clothes and try to exaggerate, enhance and dramatize, is no different than it was 25 years ago. The whole to-do is a lot of baloney...
...Yukio Mishima, a 40-year-old novelist and playwright (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion) who has been called "the Japanese Camus," The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is obviously intended as a major work of art -as an Oriental transfiguration of the novel of the absurd, and as a crypto-sociological study of the homicidal hysteria that, in Author Mishima's opinion, lies latent in the Japanese character. Unhappily, the book turns out to be simply a diabolically skillful thriller...