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...Inheritance, the work of Argentina's Ricardo Alventosa, 33, is a wicked little misanthropic comedy that develops as a spectacular succession of sight gags. The plot is taken from Maupassant's tale of a legacy and the absurd or appalling things three people do to get it; the wit is dry, fast, subtle. When an impotent man looks at an obelisk, he winces. When a sour old spinster finally drops dead, her happy-go-lucky brother sidles up to the death bed, leans forward with a glitter of maniacal triumph in his eyes and deftly distorts her customary...
Rococo flourished mostly in France. The English, with fewer aristocrats, boast little more rococo art than Hogarth. In southern Germany and Austria, the style showed itself in churches whose walls dripped with absurd cockleshell trappings: in the 1770s, the Archbishop of Salzburg had to ban all "distracting pious trumpery and theatrical representations repugnant to the true worship...
...Absurd Lesson. Governments beg their citizens to vacation at other times. Jean Hallaire, secretary of France's Committee for the Establishment of Work and Leisure Time, warned: "The month of August will be a catastrophe for vacationers. It should be an excellent lesson in the absurdity of everyone taking his vacation at once...
...Absurd Idea. Barry had been saying tor days that he hoped the passions of the presidential campaign would not exacerbate the civil rights struggle, and few Americans could argue with that wish. Now Harlem was aflame with riot, and a degree of political statesmanship seemed mandatory...
This, of course, was absurd. Whether rightly or wrongly, civil rights is, and is likely to remain the most emotionally explosive domestic issue of election year 1964. Both Goldwater and Johnson know this, and each quite understandably suspects the other of intending to use the issue for his own ends...