Word: absurdities
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...CHATEAU. French Director Jean-Paul Rappeneau has an appetite for the absurd and an unerring eye for casting in this fresh and funny farce about how in Gaul all marriages seem to be divided into three partners...
...continuing chorus of dissent makes such fears sound absurd. The fact is that never before has the U.S. been so tolerant of dissent-especially in wartime. And that fact is all the more impressive when measured against the country's history. For dissent has flourished in all U.S. wars except World War II, when Pearl Harbor unified the nation. One-third of colonial Americans openly supported Britain in the Revolution; New England almost seceded in the War of 1812; the Mexican-American War was loudly scorned by such Congressmen as Abe Lincoln. During the Civil War, Lincoln himself...
...Sailor from Gibraltar is Writer-Director Tony Richardson's contribution to the Cinema of the Absurd. Cinema because the actors in it move, however torpidly; absurd because it is film-flam posing as philosophy...
They can vote in today's referendum to put a quota on the number of boys allowed in an evening. The vision of turning away the end of the line is truly absurd. Or they can vote to keep out grad students, who don't use reserve books anyway. Or they can vote to get rid of the boys altogether. Cliffies should know better...
Manchester indulges himself in a welter of detail so massive, confusing, and personal that one is forced to gape instead of emphathize--or remember. The poignant moments--like John Kennedy Jr.'s salute to his dead father outside of St. Matthew's Cathedral--are preserved. Utterly absurd events are related as well, but Manchester won't allow them to stand for themselves. He adds his own brand of brutal interpretation. He spends, for example, eight pages relating the difficulty Kennedy's staff had when they attempted to leave Parkland Hospital with the President's body and return quickly to Washington...