Word: absurdity
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...bounce out of the pot into which he drops them. In The Bargain (TIME, Sept. 14). Butterworth wore a colonial costume which made him look like George Arliss slightly out of focus. In this picture, he wears a derby hat which is less becoming. Good shots: Butterworth voicing his absurd hunger for "a nice bowl of tapioca"; then falling into a small, shallow tank from a 110 ft. tower ; the proprietor going to bed drunk...
...particularly practical for Waterloo Bridge since he had an expert cast whose major deficiency is no more im portant than a heterogeny of accents and, in one scene, the gingerly demeanor toward tennis rackets that is universal on stage and screen. The soldier (Kent Douglass) seems naif but not absurd; his stepfather (Frederick Kerr) is a magnificently deaf old gentleman whose grunts and questions are not only real but funny. Mae Clarke as the girl gives the best performance of her short but competent career. Forlorn but hardboiled, she remains plausible even when she has hysterics; in the scene with...
...Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Hopelessly in effectual in all their doings, they are particularly and painfully inefficient in this picture. First shown planning to manufacture homebrew, they are next seen being sentenced to prison because of their clumsiness. Added to the basic handicap of the Laurel face - blank, ugly, absurd -is the handicap in Pardon Us of a loose tooth which causes him to punctuate all his sentences with a vulgar and sarcastic noise...
...Absurd . . . just damn nonsense . . . preposterous ... a bluff . . . midsummer madness . . . damn foolishness . . . just so much bunk," were typical of the epithets which Southern newspapers, cotton planters and agricultural officials heaped on the Board's proposal. Most economists figured that crop destruction might help the cotton merchant but not the planter himself. One Georgia legislator proposed that "we plow under every third member of the Farm Board." Counter proposals deluged the Board. Congressman Patman of Texas suggested that it destroy its own 1,300,000-bale holdings first as an example to the South. Senator Caraway of Arkansas advised the Board...
...absurd," spluttered Sir John Simon, "to think that they were guinea pigs who left Lord Kylsant to do what he liked and merely drew their directors' fees...