Word: absurdum
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Visitor from Hollywood is a case of seductio ad absurdum. It rests on the somewhat shaky premise that a Hollywood producer would set up an afternoon rendezvous with a suburban ma tron he once dated-17 years before-in order to kill an hour in bed. There is more lacquer than lecher in Scott's peacock-of-the-walk performance, but Stapleton is properly kittenish as she downs vodka stingers until she can only feel the bites on her neck...
...Philadelphia 76ers are paying 7-ft. 1-in. Wilt Chamberlain $250,000 to play professional basketball this winter, and nobody can say that he hasn't gone all out to earn this record sum. Wilt, for instance, thought up a new basketball strategy called reductio ad absurdum. In seven seasons with the San Francisco Warriors and Philadelphia 76ers, Chamberlain averaged 39.6 points a game, and even got as high as 100 points in one game-yet his teams never won a championship. Last year, he was persuaded to shoot less and enjoy it more as a playmaker and rebound...
...were indistinct, the barbs not finely honed. Occasionally, as in its current issue, it found the mark. Piqued by what it considered excessive panoply surrounding the Adenauer funeral, the magazine noted that his body had been borne on an army truck and navy boat. In a neat reductio ad absurdum, it wondered in cartoons why the casket was not also carried under water by frogmen, helicoptered aloft, then parachuted back to earth, where it could have been loaded into a rocket launcher and aimed heavenward...
...Henry Beard and Mark Stiumpf, takes some excusable cracks at Pill-wheels and has the added virtue of being slightly dirty. The list of thumb-nail sketches for parlor games at the start of the issue makes good fun of Parker Bros. jargon and is an amusing reductio ad absurdum of games in general. After the third or fourth game-article, the technique of reducing a real-life problem to playing-board size starts to wear a little thin, but the pieces are worth skimming for the occasional laugh...
Sung to the tune of Chuck Berry's "School Days," "Dirty Old Man" is a riotous parody, a reductio ad absurdum of the other side's stereotype of the Fug-like hippie, the bearded beatnik with "thrill pills for all you chickies, funny cigarettes for you boys...