Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simple reason that he didn't seem to understand that television's sort of art can reflect life while at the same time being entirely removed from it. It just doesn't translate. Such "art" occupies a small and meaningless universe all its own, with an internal logic that, while it may look like ours, fundamentally has nothing to do with ours. Why, one wonders is Bladkov's Cement--the quintessential work of socialist realism (which contains such gastronomical metaphors as: "The sea was like boiling milk")--taken more seriously than a bunch of grabby kids having breakfast and scteasming...
...courage and sheer logic and the ultimate ring of truth, men and women without conspicuously agreeable personalities have often won a place in history as great figures of their time...
...Pittsburgh Pirates-their elation is tempered by understandable bitterness. Says Orioles Owner Williams: "The strike was unnecessary. It should never have happened. This must never, never, happen again." Expos Pitcher Steve Rogers sums it up: "Anytime you stand toe-to-toe with illogical viewpoints and you try to use logic, there will be frustration, and frustration breeds bitterness...
Gardner's prose was sharp, his logic devastating and his humor irrefutable. But for every slain theory, ten new ones seemed to grow, and today a burgeoning interest in the paranormal has provided new targets for the patented Gardner weapons of ridicule and reason. Science: Good, Bad and Bogus discusses the fresh fascination with Roman Lull, a 13th century Spanish theologian who devised a roulette-like numerical system for revealing the secrets of the universe. Seven centuries later, Gardner reports, victims are still playing numbers games-with results that only benefit the charlatans who run them. Other chapters examine...
...wheezy bureaucrat. Clemenson flounces through the role in grand style, with his nervous gestures and his half-exhausted grandiosity (he tires before he can really come through). His gestures become more frantic, his reasoning more strident as he is the antithesis of Louis, who prides himself on his logic and dispassionate aloofness, and his slightly cynical humor. The two wander around the outline on the apartment floor, the play delves into the absurd and it is full of discordant, funny bits. All of this changes, however, when Randolph gives his theory of the cases--an increasingly bizarre trip through...