Word: absurdities
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...were questions. Why the red, white and blue? "Perhaps he's the All-American boy." The tucked-under hand-on the right when the work is viewed from the front-pokes out on the wrong side in back. Was it a mistake? "No, I like to make things absurd." And the two pipes? "He has too much of everything...
Collegiate Hero Paul Goodman (Growing Up Absurd) conducts a graduate course in higher education at the New School, while waiting in the wings to join the staff is National Review Editor William Buckley. Next fall he will teach a noncredit course on "Issues and Problems of the City: a Conservative View...
...Bernard (Peter Kastner) is a little boy who grows up absurd, wavering between his girl friends (Elizabeth Hartman, Karen Black) and his parents (Geraldine Page, Rip Torn). Though the farce is sometimes forced, this first major-league effort by Writer-Director Francis Ford Coppola suggests bigger things to come...
...World War II, a scandalous, enigmatic fictional scamp named Pito Perez suddenly loomed on the Mexican literary landscape. He was modeled after a real-life picaresque oddball named Jesús Pérez Gaona, and was immediately hailed as a personification of the national character. Bloody, absurd, splendid, his story seemed to mirror Mexico. The Futile Life of Pito Perez -his equivalent U.S. name would be something like Penny Whistle Jones-was not so much an instant bestseller as an immediate national classic. Its author, José Rubén Romero, became a figure of renown* But strangely, until...
...actor, while touring the provinces with a Shakespearean troupe. Their marriage in 1956 gave Pinter a sure breadwinner in the house and enabled him to try playwriting. Today they own a splendid five-story Georgian town house overlooking Regent's Park in London-the House the Absurd built...