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...there are few "great deaths." Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, Conrad gave death a tragic dimension. Hemingway was among the last to try; his heroes died stoically, with style, like matadors. Nowadays, death tends to be presented as a banal accident in an indifferent universe. Much of the Theater of the Absurd ridicules both death and modern man's inability to cope with it. In lonesco's Amedee, or How to Get Rid of It, the plot concerns a corpse that grows and grows until it floats away in the shape of a balloon-a balloon, that...
...script was rewritten late Friday night as "A Tribute to the Theater of the Absurd." Samborski refused to comment on the censorship, but noted that "it was a wonderful show Saturday and everybody liked...
...there is anything more absurd than attacking God, I guess it would be defending...
...theory for the show's success. Some believe that Smart is like one of his enemies, a freak, a mutation that has no ancestors and will have no descendants. Others feel that he is the first eccentric ripple in a new wave of insane, absurd television comedy. If they are right, by next season the screen will be Smarting with maimed heavies and mentally defective detectives. And so it will go, until one day someone looking for Big Money in television comes up with a new idea: "People are tired of crazy, improbable situation comedies. How about a show...
Help! is not just an enormously funny movie. It's also a sharp piece of social criticism, for what could be more absurd than a society that bestows royal honors on a rock 'n' roll group for the group's contribution to the country's balance-of-payments deficit? The Beatles give the Establishment the axe, and the chief executioner is John Lennon...