| 单词 | the absurd |
| 例句 | ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘I am here. And you are lucky to be here, too, after all the absurd things you have done since you left home.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Now the absurd situation was open, Jack blushed too. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z One route open to the advance guard was to play with the musical possibilities of the surreal and the absurd. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “I can’t. I’m not playing, I never do,” said Frank, dismayed at the sentimental predicament out of which he was to rescue the absurd couple. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The medik moved aside, and Kaz blinked twice, trying to clear his vision and make sense of the absurd luxury of his surroundings. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Genie had the absurd thought that the branch with the can sort of looked like it had just finished taking a sip and was asking another branch if it wanted to have a taste. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “I know most gunters cling to the absurd notion that IOI is evil. And that the Sixers are ruthless corporate drones with no honor and no respect for the ‘true spirit’ of the contest. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In recent times his annoyance with the absurd obesity that prevented him from tying his shoes and his abusive satisfaction with all manner of appetites had begun to sour his character. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Mark couldn’t believe the absurd words coming out of this lady’s mouth. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z "The farce of the cold war and the absurd war machine it spawned," he said, "was an ever-growing pathetic joke to me." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, curious townspeople gathered along the edges of the field, fascinated by the absurd scene, eagerly awaiting Pendejo’s arrival. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I grinned at the absurd Arthurian image of the guitar in the stone. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He was liable to drag in bits of what he called poetry; and sometimes, after a glass or two, would allude to the absurd adventures of his mysterious journey. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The effect was one of enormous strength and energy and craft; he was quite big enough to carry the absurd overdecoration; on him it didn’t look preposterous, it looked barbaric and magnificent. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She walked swiftly, keeping time to the absurd jingle running through her head. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In the Bible, unnamability is evidence of holiness; for Beckett, it is the cornerstone of the absurd. The Rise of the Nameless Narrator 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z He delivers it with an incredulous chuckle, to serve up facts from the absurd to the horrifying. Funny Because It’s True: John Oliver’s New Brand of Sincere Satire 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z "For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week," Limbaugh said in his statement. Limbaugh apologizes to law student for insult 2012-03-04T03:38:14Z As authors, my girls find the absurd in both sorrow and joy. Samantha Hunt: By the Book 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z And you depart it all mystified by the absurd contradictions that Ms. Winfrey’s achievements reveal about this country. Oprah Earned This Museum Show. And It’s a Potent Spectacle. 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z In this painfully resonant story we see the absurd fragility of our own humanity. An errant gun threatens many lives in ‘The Death of Rex Nhongo’ 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Their adventures and misadventures bordered on the absurd but firmly established Ms. Duke — as well as the show’s perhaps too-catchy theme song — in the collective memory of the 1960s. Patty Duke, child star, Oscar winner and advocate for mental health, dies at 69 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z The old and the new, the real and the surreal, the melancholic and the absurd, the factual and the fictitious are all blended here — blended and dissolved as if in flowing water. Read Your Way Through Istanbul 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z “Kármán” is loving, tragic, and empathetic, with a wryness so delicate it’s almost holding its breath; “Clouds” is gently deadpan, interweaving the quotidian and the absurd. The Screening Room: “People Are Becoming Clouds” 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z The viewer feels no sympathy for Chip, while Galifianakis’s flair for the absurd and postmodern slapstick actually works against the verisimilitude and utterly banal Bakersfield feeling that the show works hard to create. How much Zach Galifianakis is too much? ‘Baskets’ pushes the limits. 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z That subtle intersection of the ordinary and the absurd is her trademark maneuver. Review | In Nell Zink’s ‘Doxology,’ D.C. punk and modern politics collide 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z To many critics, the song’s broad strokes made the absurd suggestion that centuries of racial strife could be solved over a caramel macchiato. Brad Paisley’s country continues to expand its borders After you've gone through the angry bit, take the argument into the realms of the absurd. 76 minutes with … John Lydon 2012-05-31T20:30:00Z Mr. Letterman filtered his forays through an acerbic sense of humor and a grand sense of the absurd. David Letterman Leaves His Successors a Rich Comedic Bequest 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Set in “Darkplace Hospital,” this is a masterpiece of the absurd and pokes loving fun at horror writers and bad TV both. Perspective | Beyond ‘The Shining’: Let’s talk about our favorite scary stories that take us inside unusual hauntings 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z The other film that kept returning to me was Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, centred as it is on the absurd rituals of a group of middle-class people. The Man Booker 2012 shortlist: the authors on their novels 2012-10-12T21:54:02Z And Williams is hardly a celebrity arriviste, but rather a leading American actor with a well-documented range and a profound sense of the existential and the absurd. 'Bengal Tiger': How does Robin Williams do on Broadway? 2011-03-31T22:09:41Z Thanking the Tate, she also commended the other shortlisted artists for their "respect, camaraderie and a sense of the absurd". Elizabeth Price wins Turner Prize 2012-12-04T13:02:04Z The art historian Kristine Stiles has proposed that Mr. Pope.L’s performances “belong to the mental, social and political theater of the absurd.” William Pope.L Makes Statements From the Fringes 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z It's often so baroque that it borders on the absurd. Luther is back with more comic-book gore and fantastical crimes 2013-06-29T05:00:00Z Could it be that by making the absurd Carroll we all know from our childhoods newly absurd, Barry has flipped what was upside down now right side up? The craziest opera yet: Gerald Barry's 'Alice's Adventures' 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The intellectual context of theatre of the absurd may now be long over, but surely one can still make subversive French art? Has French theatre lost its va-va-voom? 2011-03-23T15:02:34Z Hazanavicius says he made the film “to oppose the absurd theory according to which all Chechens are terrorists.” The Cannes Countdown: Six Contenders for Major Awards 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z So impressive is the technical accomplishment that one forgets that the action, while ostensibly unfolding in the context of a real and recognisable war, is operating safely within the absurd liberties of Hollywood convention. The human heart of the matter 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z Set in a contemporary East London churning with dark shadows and inexplicable savagery, this digitally shot, visually murky movie is a muddle of tones ranging from the grotesque to the queasily comic to the absurd. | 'Heartless': Out of the Dark Shadows, Arty Toil and Trouble 2010-11-19T06:13:00Z But at least the absurd debate gives writers like myself plenty to say about what would otherwise be a fairly unassuming prize winner. Booker club: Last Orders by Graham Swift 2012-07-24T11:28:36Z Falcone, 40, and McCarthy, 43, both grew up in Illinois but first met as members of Los Angeles' improv comedy group the Groundlings in the late 1990s, quickly discovering a shared appreciation of the absurd. Melissa McCarthy's star power helps her go out on a limb with 'Tammy' 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z It's a wildly uneven film, ranging from the monotonously ceremonial to the absurd, with the acrobatic star proving giddy to the point of clownish. How Robin Hood became a socialist 2010-05-11T21:01:00Z That opening scene, from “Carnival Round the Central Figure,” is steeped in the absurd — the man’s face is caked with white makeup, and a menacing nurse sits nearby, holding a needle about three feet long. | 'Carnival Round the Central Figure': Death Be Not Predictable 2011-01-20T21:28:30Z Existentialism in its Kunderian manifestation, like its cousins the absurd and the surreal, claims laughter to be an essential element of man’s defiance. ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Our class discussed Meursault, his mother, his fight with the priest, existentialism and the absurd. ‘The Meursault Investigation,’ by Kamel Daoud 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z In turn, Schumer and co. brilliantly tackle the absurd and unfair Hollywood beauty standards that older actresses are subjected to. 15 feminist Amy Schumer sketches that will make you stand up and cheer 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z The premiere opens with a sequence set to “Galaxy Song,” Monty Python’s cheerfully existentialist ode to the absurd miracle of life. On ‘Better Things,’ a Small Story Goes Out With a Big Bang 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z We are simultaneously in Shadow’s mind and the collective unconscious, wandering the vast unknown like lost lambs in a dystopian theater of the absurd. “American Gods” are the ones we deserve: Neil Gaiman and the Starz show cast on the “long con” of religion and the struggle for lost soul of America 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z The bad news is Columbia Pictures shelled out $42 million to make the absurd take on Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Box Office: 'Aquaman' stays strong with $51.5 million in second... 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z They snicker at Mitch’s “Lassie”-like instincts for danger and the absurd, outsize perfection of his body, which resembles a Humvee emerging from a carwash. The ‘Baywatch’ movie spoofs the TV show’s cliches – but has that become its own cliche? 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z She’s nowhere to be seen in The Devil Wears Prada, because that wouldn’t fit the absurd spectacle people generally hope to see in a movie about the fashion world. 'I Hate The Devil Wears Prada More Now Than I Did 10 Years Ago' 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z The premise is yet another example of Holofcener’s ability to mine the mundanity of life for the absurd. Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Nicole Holofcener on the Absurdity of Everyday Life 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z “Of course Oscar was a precursor of the theater of the absurd in that play,” he says of “Earnest,” Wilde’s last and greatest comedy. The Importance of Being Astonished 2011-01-09T02:00:58Z Like "Idol," "X Factor" is based on a British series and showcases singers ranging from the talented - a 13-year-old with a big voice among them, according to the "X Factor" preview - to the absurd. 'X Factor' goes X-rated as singer's pants drop 2011-09-15T18:26:28Z Or at least step back, take a break and — as Goya prompted us to do — laugh at the absurd state of the world and the functionaries who rule and govern us. Review: In Goya’s Shadow, Andrea Fraser’s Videos Skewer Social Institutions 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z A faint aroma of the absurd clung to their names. Our Favorite Dylan Lyrics 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z In need of money, she took a job as a darkroom assistant to Man Ray, the Brooklyn-raised Dadaist and devotee of the absurd. Berenice Abbott: She Was a Camera 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Employing a pinched, nasal French accent of stage stereotype, Mr. Kayden is very funny in her sniffing acceptance of the absurd behavior of her employers. Theater Review: ?Don?t Dress for Dinner? at American Airlines Theater 2012-04-27T02:00:01Z There’s more than a touch of the absurd in Lao Shi’s situation, most obvious when he’s with his victim, whose silence is a relief. Review: Compassion Is Expensive for a Cabby in ‘Old Stone’ 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z The six comedians relived the some of the absurd things they had to do for the show, including doing interviews on gay penguins and participating in war-reenactment ceremonies. WATCH: Stephen Colbert invites his former “Daily Show” colleagues on “The Late Show” for a reunion 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z But Stafford Smith turns out to be positively bouncy with good humour and silly jokes and an eye for the absurd – so much so, in fact, that at 53 he retains an almost teenage quality. Clive Stafford Smith: 'The jury system in this country is utter insanity' 2012-07-08T19:00:02Z On Thursday, Melania Trump did her part to freshen up this self-evident tragedy by making a costume choice out of the theatre of the absurd. Interrogating Melania Trump’s Statement Jacket and its Fast-Fashion Fascism 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Where Landscape with Chainsaw had a fine sense of the absurd in its poems of self-doubt, the overall tone here is less jocular, with sharper accents of guilt and shame. Water Sessions by James Lasdun – review 2012-10-05T21:55:01Z Mr. Buress approaches race the same way he does most subjects: from the side, with a hint of the absurd. Critic?s Notebook: Hannibal Buress Approaches Comedy From the Side 2011-11-03T12:00:04Z Rich is at the height of his craft when his work “treats the absurd completely seriously as it darts seamlessly between humor and gravity,” Nate Dern says in his review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Amazingly, you don’t have to know for certain whether Bloomberg lied about this particular incident to recognize the absurd aspects of this exchange. Perspective | ‘Believe Women’ doesn’t mean women never lie. It means accepting that men sometimes do, too. 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z The aspiring writer soon discovered that the absurd destructiveness of his mental compulsion was matched only by the absurd elaborateness of his retrospective justification for it. A Writer’s Justification 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z “It’s a form of argument that I thought you would have known, which is called the ‘reduction to the absurd,’” Scalia sniffed. Scalia’s still obsessed with sodomy 2012-12-11T16:19:00Z Like much of Rich’s work, this story treats the absurd completely seriously as it darts seamlessly between humor and gravity, before arriving at an unexpected happy ending. The Angst of the Creative Millennial, as Fodder for Satire 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z This an arena of the deadpan and the absurd — presented in 30-second vignettes. The 12 Best “This Is SportsCenter” Spots as Chosen by TIME and ESPN 2013-11-21T17:49:54Z Her taste for cataloguing can knowingly flirt with the absurd, as when she surrounds a dead cricket with 12 recordings of noises it made. In the galleries: Strangely familiar objects for the eyes and ears 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z During the pregame or breaks, you can ramble on about that Pepsi ad or the absurd spectacle that is the halftime show. Super Bowl Sunday: What You Should Know About Steelers, Packers 2011-02-25T10:45:00Z Professor Luhr said that Mr. Blatty gravitated toward the absurd in his comedy career, usually in the form of slapstick, which is why he was drawn to Mr. Edwards, a slapstick specialist. The Comedic Side of William Peter Blatty, the Author of ‘The Exorcist’ 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z Even though “Kapoor & Sons” goes from lightly comic to more darkly dramatic to pretty overtly melodramatic, it never loses its lived-in quality or plunges into the absurd. Review: ‘Kapoor & Sons’ Centers on an Indian Family’s Flaws 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z I think that kids can handle a lot more than we give them credit for, especially when it comes to the absurd. Q&A with Rango Director Gore Verbinski 2011-03-04T16:50:00Z Director and writer Ben Lewin said after a screening on Saturday that he tried to capture O'Brien's "self-deprecating humor and view of life as the absurd." "Beasts," "The Surrogate" aim for post-Sundance success 2012-01-29T22:32:03Z A dark humor threads through these pages, and the novel as a whole often combines the tragic and the absurd. This Week in Fiction: Annie Proulx Discusses Her Upcoming Novel, “Barkskins” 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z But I sneaked unnoticed into the Everyman Library edition recently and, burrowing deep, loved the rich complexity, the wise and barbed exploration of corruption and the absurd irrationality of the human condition. How Jeff VanderMeer Prevents Writer’s Block 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z And, traditionally, the crowds mock us: the effete brainiacs, the absurd eggheads, the mad scientists. Perspective | Goodreads Choice Awards: An annual reminder that critics and readers don’t often agree 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z On that night, center field — where thousands of pieces of vinyl were exploded into shards — was a theater of the absurd, and also the rude, racist and homophobic. Chance the Rapper Honors Chicago, His Hometown, With Magnificent Coloring Day 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Vargas Llosa's novels understand and reproduce the absurd and melancholy tragicomedy of our lives and their occasionally inspiring moments of pure happiness. Mario Vargas Llosa: an unclassifiable Nobel winner 2010-10-08T10:50:00Z Connell knows how to make a sentence swerve unexpectedly toward the absurd, the non sequitur, and the comic, but always accurately. Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell – rereading 2012-06-08T21:55:17Z But in its best numbers, Ms. Katona Bennett, who played Christine in “The Phantom of the Opera,” dropped the official facade of graciousness and sentimentality to voice a cheerful sense of the absurd. Music Review: Raissa Katona Bennett at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency 2012-08-23T22:26:11Z If her onstage persona is opaque but impulsive, her conversation seems tinged with a very Russian fatalism, disillusionment and sense of the absurd, sometimes bone dry, sometimes contemptuous, sometimes wildly amused. Want to Be a Star? Take Your Lumps 2010-12-26T02:24:10Z While the adult table might get bogged down in politics, kids will go down a rabbit hole of YouTubers and knock-knock jokes bordering on the absurd. "Mrs. Maisel" and lessons from the kids' table 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z There are glimpses of Bridget in the writer’s quick wit and sense of the absurd — though Fielding exudes a considerably greater sense of control than her hapless heroine. Bridget Jones is Back in ‘Mad About the Boy’ 2013-10-14T14:44:34Z That final word conveys the absurd tragedy of it all—of the poor hurrying to dismantle their lives, preferring that to having their lives dismantled for them. The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Young is a sharp observer who revels in her sense of the absurd and uses precise language and striking images. Review | A New Zealand poet turns a lyrical eye on her homeland through essays in ‘Can You Tolerate This?’ 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z In this movie, though, when he goes airborne like a barnstormer, the scene’s self-conscious sense of the absurd suggests he’s trying to let his inner Harold Lloyd out to play. Review: ‘Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation’ With Tom Cruise and Plenty of Stunts 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The rest of the album charts his more usual course between the absurd and the personal. Neil Hannon 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z It could still be a slasher film, with the requisite stabbings and dismemberment, but underscored by a sense of the absurd. Analysis | From slasher villain to LGBT icon, ‘Child Play’s’ Chucky changes with the times 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z “The emotional range of the movie is huge: It goes from the funny to the absurd to the tragic to the I-can’t-hardly-even-look-at-that,” he said. Turning ‘a Nightmare of Ghoulish Obscenities’ Into a Ballet 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch,” like its predecessors, consists of short episodes that illustrate, mostly, the absurd futility of life. Review: ‘A Pigeon Sat on a Branch,’ Roy Andersson’s Rumination on Life 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z The phrase “Your body is a battleground” is replaced by the absurd “My coffee is a motorboat” and the violent “Your skin is sliced.” Barbara Kruger: A Way With Words 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z If your tolerance for the absurd is low to begin with, the swat-swat-swat of verbal volleys here probably won’t convert you. ‘Rosencrantz’ review: Clever hybrid stager, thy name is Posner 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z He makes the smart choice to play the absurd premise straight up. Obama, the funniest president: Laughter isn’t just the best defense—it’s a powerful image strategy, too 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z He has a surrealist's eye for the grotesque and the absurd. Deutsche Börse photography prize 2012 – review 2012-07-14T23:06:08Z Haida is a self-proclaimed philosopher in the making, and he sits on the cusp of the earnest and the absurd. Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z A haunting first half can’t offset the absurd ending of “I Think We’re Alone Now,” a post-apocalyptic tale with a late plot twist that feels as if it comes out of left field. Review: ‘I Think We’re Alone Now’ Finds Peter Dinklage at the End of His World 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z That’s one of the tricky parts of Ibsen’s text — the long list of characters, the insistent verse, the constant setting shifts, the frequent and abrupt dips into the absurd and surreal. Review: ‘Gnit’ Seeks Itself in a Mist of Magic and Mischief 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z In addition to the absurd, there were items that could have hanger appeal, like intarsia knits with blurry Grateful Dead teddy bears. On the Runway Blog: In London, the Ones That Stand Out 2012-06-18T14:13:43Z He made the universal absurd, the absurd universal. Charles Barsotti, Cartoonist With Humor Both Simple and Absurd, Dies at 80 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z Luckily, she has a keen eye for the absurd. The Macabre, the Sinister, the Absurd: Story Time Just Got Weirder 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Jan. 19, but given the absurd number of presales, fans hoping to score general admission tickets may not want to wait that long. Ticket alert: Zac Brown Band announces Safeco Field concert 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z It is the pun simultaneously multiplied and reduced to the absurd. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z Her dances unfolded on urban landscapes as seen through Ms. Miller’s eye for the absurd. Joan Miller, Modern-Dance Champion, Dies at 77 2014-04-04T00:18:48Z He takes real events and nudges them into the absurd. | Hugh Bonneville: Hugh Bonneville, Star of the Olympics Comedy ‘Twenty Twelve’ 2012-06-24T03:30:52Z But that cannot possibly blind me to the absurd notion that woman will accomplish that wherein man has failed... Emma Goldman: a thoroughly modern anarchist 2010-10-06T12:00:00Z Richard Burton, who co-starred, described it as "a comedy of the absurd gone mad". Peter O'Donnell obituary 2010-05-05T18:09:00Z They had a head for the absurd and a heart for romance. In honoring Ephron, here are 10 of her best lines 2012-06-27T20:10:03Z Scott wrote in his review for The Times, “a costume drama with sharp political instincts and an aggressive sense of the absurd.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘Mrs. Maisel’ and ‘Wuthering Heights’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z It was late January, and the Manhattan courtroom drama had taken a turn to the absurd. Whatever became of the anti-Trump prophets? 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z This, indeed, is the key to Camus's philosophy of the absurd. Algiers: a city where France is the promised land – and still the enemy 2013-01-27T00:06:03Z Living in a society that tends toward the chaotic, Brazilians have always had an appreciation for the absurd. Comedy: A Brazilian?s Comic Mania: Social Media 2011-08-04T12:00:00Z What we also have to remember is that Trump may have been the cherry on top of the absurd sundae, but he was never alone. Is political comedy dead now? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z There’s no emotional core here, nothing that resembles the commitment of Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen to the drama of “Airplane!” and “The Naked Gun,” which anchors the absurd humor of those movies. Video Game Review: Jazzpunk Video Game Commits to Comedy 2014-02-10T22:47:55Z A hallmark of Bob and Ray comedy was bone-dry delivery of the absurd. Bob Elliott, one half of a crack team of pop-culture satirists, dies at 92 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Murray’s deadpan dialogue thrives in finance’s theater of the absurd, but his humanist touch lifts The Mark and the Void into something unexpectedly moving, a paean to personal relations amid spreadsheets and speculation. Top 10 Fiction Books 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the void of explanation is filled with speculation ranging from the cynical to the absurd, the likely to the very unlikely. There’s a ton of crap in the sky we haven’t shot down (yet) 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z This, for her, is better than sex: the music swells, the lights flash, the absurd sense of invincibility grows and, whatever the grimy surroundings, "a smooth jazz band follows everywhere I go". Gambling | Theatre review 2010-03-23T22:40:00Z It describes the involved workaday process of manufacturing the weapons and — with Guiteau, Booth and Moore forming a deranged chorus — the absurd ease with which they wreak havoc. Review | Insanity thrives, giddily, in Signature’s ‘Assassins’ 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z You know, for me personally and creatively, I’ve always had a very broad sense of the absurd. Dead Tree Alert: TV’s Bumper Crop of Blood; Plus: Kurt Sutter on the Uses of Mayhem 2013-02-28T13:14:43Z “Ever cry so hard and so thoroughly,” she asks, with deliberate pace, before shifting into the absurd, “that when you finish you like jazz?” A Year When Death Loomed in the Laughter 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Matters of marriage, sex, science and womanhood are raised by Ruhl, a continually inventive playwright whose lyrical sense of the absurd is as acute as her insightful probings into the psyches of her quirky characters. ACT to stage the electrifying 'In the Next Room' by Sarah Ruhl 2011-07-28T19:32:04Z Two of the best films to come out of the festival in recent years were from Ireland: the absurd comedy "Zonad" and Conor McPherson's cathartic ghost story "The Eclipse." `Bombay Beach,' `The Guard' highlight Tribeca 2011-05-02T11:46:04Z Cumberbatch is widely recognised as a stage actor, covering a repertoire from Ibsen and Shakespeare to the theatre of the absurd. Elementary, my dear Cumberbatch 2010-07-16T23:02:00Z But wit is also serenity in the face of the absurd. How Wit Reveals the Trickster Beauty of Our Garbage World 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Eric was mostly just annoyed at the absurd questions he’d wake up to every morning, one of which was about the anonymous woman who claimed her husband bit her as a result of her diabetes. When Your Love Life Is a Punch Line 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z The dinner that follows is practically theater of the absurd. Charlie Kaufman's exasperating "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" could've been a masterpiece 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z “Kein Licht” treats its bleak topics — stupidity and blindness leading to man-made apocalypse — with neurotic humor and a taste for the absurd. At 75, the Holland Festival Is Back and More Global Than Ever 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z It’s the black and the absurd which started with World War I. From the stand point of the 20th century, to be melancholic is good mental health. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z “I push myself into the realm of the absurd so that whatever my audience considers impossible suddenly by comparison seems plausible and achievable,” Mr. Ferriss said. The World According to Tim Ferriss 2011-03-25T21:44:29Z Things quickly take a turn for the worse — and for the absurd — as the protagonist is faced with issues and events that can’t be calculated, unlike everything else in his life. Read Your Way Through Helsinki 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z When you look at it this way, all of the absurd verbal bowing and scraping is precisely the point. Why the baroque politeness of diplomatic notes is what the world needs now 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z A friend of Mr. Bowie’s, talking about the absurd amount of sex that went on in the singer’s home, reports, “I used to wake under a pile of bodies.” Books of The Times: David Bowie, the Cool Chameleon From Mars 2011-07-21T22:10:17Z Ms. DeGeneres, born in Metairie, La., started out in a New Orleans comedy club, making a name for herself with observational material that sometimes veered into the absurd. Ellen DeGeneres, a Signature Star of the Obama Era, Says Goodbye 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z At the moment of the ultimate humiliation, there’s Lillian, trying desperately to maintain her composure and live up to the absurd power of The Gown. TIME?s Favorite Cultural Moments of 2011 2011-12-27T15:00:22Z As the band’s main lyricist, Wood juggles the cryptic and the apparently confessional, the self-lacerating and the absurd. Black Country, New Road’s Perilous Triumph 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z But what was, perhaps, the most telling was not the absurd suggestion that her voluntary resignation signaled the collapse of academic freedom successfully wrought by the p.c. police. Donald Trump, FDR and Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson problem: Here’s how we stop defending historical racism and move forward 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Somehow, it would fit into Linehan's gentle sense of the absurd. Graham Linehan: Twitter has made me 2012-05-27T18:00:01Z “Rat Film” isn’t a pure polemic and at times has an almost whimsical eye for the absurd. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z The immense, repetitive manual labor that’s involved reeks of the absurd, and yet the process also suggests meditative homage. Why everything in this 'Living Room' is covered in gray felt 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z One of the most important is the idea of the absurd. A guide to György Ligeti's music 2012-08-27T12:11:24Z In his novel “The Zero,” Jess Walter used a Kafkaesque sense of the absurd to conjure the post-traumatic stress disorder the nation suffered. The 9/11 Decade: Outdone by Reality 2011-09-01T16:55:45Z The result is a mix of the realistic and the absurd, with a hint of pop culture. Artist captures war as seen by children - toys included 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z “Fistful of Vengeance” offers the kind of large-scale entertainment you hope for from an action film where the absurd logic is secondary to the rowdy fights. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z You’ll find the barbarity of “Assassins,” distilled by Sondheim’s refined sense of the absurd, a weirdly enjoyable dive into crazy. Review | Insanity thrives, giddily, in Signature’s ‘Assassins’ 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z But for all the absurd digressions and circuitous detours, “Antkind” remains propelled by Kaufman’s deep imagination, considerable writing ability and bull’s-eye wit. Review | Charlie Kaufman’s debut novel, ‘Antkind,’ is just as loopy and clever as his movies 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Although Gough's mannered elegance was hardly suited to the social misfits erupting in the new wave of British drama or the theatre of the absurd, he did not ignore either movement. Michael Gough obituary 2011-03-17T19:38:43Z The fact that she is currently complaining about his depiction of her can’t quite dispel — indeed, might confirm — the absurd, gnawing suspicion that her life has been one long audition for an Errol Morris film. | 'Tabloid': Was It Love? The ?Manacled Mormon? and His Kinky Weekend 2011-07-14T22:11:29Z He has a great snout for the absurd. Meet an Intergalactic Spider in ‘Spaceman of Bohemia’ 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z I think it fine exercise to let the mind amble into the absurd, and ramble around. The Costume Institute Takes On Catholicism 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z “Meteor Shower” plunges into the absurd without establishing a philosophical grounding for the mania. Steve Martin's 'Meteor Shower' plunges into the absurd at the Old Globe 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z These get dirty, since Grandpa’s involved, and the absurd whiplash between sentiment and filth suggests a parody of the genre. Review: ‘Dirty Grandpa’ Features Robert De Niro on the Prowl 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z It confirms Ms. Christov-Bakargiev’s taste for esoterica, her sense of the absurd and her mostly respectable mysticism. Review: Making Connections at Istanbul’s Biennial 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Always trust an actor when in middle age he starts to see the absurd aspect of his own image. David Thomson on Jack Nicholson 2010-08-05T21:22:00Z “He’s brought the theater of the absurd to the masses,” said actor Jack Black. On The Scene With Mark Twain Prize Honoree Will Ferrell 2011-10-24T15:04:24Z Kahn navigates this slapstick theatre of the absurd with consummate self-deprecating humour. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-22T23:06:30Z Clinically gifted, she was passionately committed to her patients and the profession: she chaired committees with acuity and kindness, and an irrepressible sense of the absurd. Letter: Bernardine Bishop's passionate commitment to psychotherapy 2013-07-24T15:43:46Z Eilish’s sound understands how adolescence can feel like a horror movie: the constantly looming suspense, the way the ordinary is suddenly pierced by the ghastly or the absurd. Best Albums of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z There seems to be some sense of the absurd. Why Judd Apatow Loves Montreal (You’ll Laugh) 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z “My problem was that I found that the music component in the writing process made the words stray from their path and even jump into the absurd,” she wrote. Jenny Hval Makes Ideas Sing 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z In 2021, the Simpson family's socioeconomic situation is absurd, and so the style of humor must trend towards the absurd, too. “The Simpsons” hasn’t declined due to bad writing; its outdated politics no longer make sense 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z Bainbridge was born in the port city of Liverpool in northwest England in 1934, and the city's grit informed her books, which blended humor, tragedy and the absurd. British novelist Beryl Bainbridge dies at 75 2010-07-02T12:35:00Z Shards of humor, along with the absurd and the grotesque, jostled with no effort at cohesion in this strange container of a dance, which featured recordings of Bach and the delicious 15th-century “Agincourt Carol.” Dance Review: 'Retrospective Project I': 4 Decades of Eiko & Koma 2010-05-28T22:51:00Z That balance between the truly mournful and the absurd. ArtsBeat: Todd Haynes to Make Film of My Morning Jacket Show 2011-05-03T14:40:57Z The field of obstetrics requires women to enter into an absurd realm, or perhaps to simply remain within the absurd realm in which we already exist. 'I felt I was being punished for pushing back': pregnancy and #MeToo 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z What our critic said: This is “a farce with teeth, a costume drama with sharp political instincts and an aggressive sense of the absurd.” How to Watch ‘Black Panther’ Free and Other Oscar Movie Tips 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z The brouhaha over “Suicide Squad” offers a great starting point for tracing this evolution from the absurd to the sinister. Toxic white male nerd avengers: What’s really behind the “Suicide Squad” super-fan freak-out 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z It’s a fine line and I think I always sort of run up to the absurd line all the time. Dead Tree Alert: TV’s Bumper Crop of Blood; Plus: Kurt Sutter on the Uses of Mayhem 2013-02-28T13:14:43Z Getting a new permit from the security services, the F.S.B., can take two weeks, and the rules border on the absurd. Forged by Volcanoes, Kamchatka Offers Majestic, Magnetic Wilds 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z By contrast, creating an aesthetic that’s vaguely familiar yet thoroughly out of time, “Kat Hats,” by Daniel Pinkwater, with illustrations by Aaron Renier, plunges us into a geography of the absurd. A Hat Tip to 4 New Picture Books 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z For Camus, Sisyphus is “the absurd hero,” condemned to search for meaning — to keep pushing uphill — in the total absence of meaning. Review: Compassion Is Expensive for a Cabby in ‘Old Stone’ 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Occasionally we have seen the absurd side and collapsed into giggles about what a Martian would think if it caught us in this ridiculous pose. My life in sex: ‘Sexual activity at our age can seem like a pilates class’ 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Please stop spreading the absurd idea that your beliefs have rights. Flying While Muslim: A Civil Rights Advocate on Travel Right Now 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z If you see a little bit of the yin and yang of Lisa in that—the absurd creature in the sensible red dress and pearls—well, that’s no accident. ?The Simpsons? Marks 25 Years and Endless Inspiration 2012-04-22T23:48:06Z But when the choice is up to two 60-somethings who spend their lives hunting the absurd? Review | You’re invited to dinner with Roz Chast and Patricia Marx, but you’ll have to go to Staten Island 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Her innate playfulness transmuted paranoia and sarcasm into a shared sense of the absurd. Music Review: Christine Ebersole Performs at Caf? Carlyle 2012-02-01T22:16:27Z The museum's offerings range from the absurd to the historical. Moscow sex museum sparks controversy 2011-07-12T14:29:02Z But the show’s brand of humor delights in the absurd, the makeshift, and the overblown. With “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp,” Netflix cracks the reboot code 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Inwardly, he dissects the absurd banality of his life while he observes, with an acute sense of cynicism and occasional brutality, the slow decline of his doting middle-age parents. ‘The Evenings,’ a Dutch Classic, Arrives in English. It Only Took 70 Years. 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z In the segment below, Oliver presented the growing issue of overheating prisons across the country this summer – creating potentially fatal conditions – and the absurd lack of compassion officials have demonstrated. John Oliver says this summer, we're cooking prisoners to death in temps as high as 150 degrees 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z And so he steps forward to confront it, and discovers — like so many figures in Pinter’s plays and in modern drama — that the absurd is existence itself. At the London Theater, a Fear of the Foreign and Familiar 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z This sounds like a bit of a markup, but it is probably small potatoes when you consider some of the absurd prices paid for new works by contemporary artists. Critic?s Notebook: Forrest Bess Paintings at Christie?s and Whitney Biennial 2012-03-22T21:35:57Z Parr has a way of revealing the absurd in the mundane. Real Food, No Filter 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Being an existentialist requires being satisfied with the absurd and random nature of events, freeing you to create your own life in circumstances that aren't of your own making. Just too soft to be Sartre | Lynsey Hanley 2010-03-31T22:30:00Z Chapter by chapter, we shift back and forth, from the ever-swelling calamities at the academy to the absurd machinations of Hollywood. Review | Emily M. Danforth’s ‘Plain Bad Heroines’ mixes up a delectable brew of gothic horror and Hollywood satire 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z And that’s why what’s unfolding in New Jersey right now represents a similar blow against the absurd – and ridiculously lucrative — industry of “healing” gay men and women. Gay healers: You’re quacks! 2012-11-28T21:24:00Z This time, Mr. Goggins said he was still eager to work with Mr. McBride, who he called “a Woody Allen for flyover America,” and to tell a story about “the absurd need for power.” Danny McBride’s New Mission: Setting Off Sparks in the Faculty Lounge 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z I am a fan of Monty Python, and not just because I am English, but because we need to laugh at the absurd aspects of human nature, which is often far removed from authentic nature. Animal Doctor: Are my cats trying to play mind games with me? 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z There are plenty of reasons Abraham and I have become good friends, but one of them is definitely this shared comedic sense of the absurd. My friend the Iraqi 2013-03-21T00:00:00Z Motoya wins over her audience by pushing the absurd to extremes. Husbands and Wives Magically Morph in a Japanese Story Collection 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z One of the fake things that had been overturned was the absurd macho posturing of hair-metal bands. That Time My Band Opened for Blur 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z It was a typically playful offering, entirely in keeping with Sievey's wilful sense of the absurd. Chris Sievey obituary 2010-06-22T14:16:00Z They’ve grown up steeped in the absurd darkness that this tension produces. “Drop Dead Gorgeous,” Which Is Finally Streaming, Is Possibly My Favorite Movie of All Time 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z I’ll leave it there for now, though the litany of the dreadful, the unlikely, the inexplicable and the absurd could be extended in every direction. Poking at Politics, Without a Stick, on Big and Small Screens 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z If a tense, noir surf riff out of a spy film didn’t emphasise the absurd stealth manoeuvres that underpin female beauty standards, the Spanx wedgie drove home the indignity. My favourite film aged 12: Bridget Jones's Diary 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z This is a small selection of the thousands who have had to endure the absurd stringencies of the UK Border Agency since the points-based visa system was introduced. Artists and academics regularly refused UK entry, say campaigners 2010-03-16T19:51:00Z He continues his set, mixing the abstract and the absurd with attacks on Cameron's welfare reform. Lee Ridley: making comedy out of silence 2012-06-06T17:26:50Z Undergoing Jabadi’s ham-fisted interrogation, Maziar manages to retain his sense of the absurd, as if realizing that Kafka wrote bleak black comedy about humankind’s awful unfairness. Review: Jon Stewart's Rosewater: Laughing Through the Torture 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z “I don’t care what you think of the man’s politics,” Letterman said, after playing the absurd JibJab-esque stunt “…but that was impressive.” Rand Paul gets the David Letterman treatment in glorious, absurd 2016 gag 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The beauty of James Bond movies is that they are, in one sense, theater of the absurd. Game On: 'Call of Duty: Black Ops' one of the year's best 2010-11-18T05:16:00Z At a moment when all of life seems like a high camp performance, from Boris Johnson’s hair to Billy Porter’s various entrances, how would Mr. Scott assume the mantle as the bard of the absurd? ‘Is It Theater or Is It Real?’ 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z The writer-director Bernard Rose takes a highly indulgent view of its hero, seeing him as a modernday Robin Hood running rings around the absurd sheriffs who pursue him as he provides a public service. Mr Nice ? review 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z Like many of our late-night dinner schemes it never quite got off the ground, but our shared sense of the absurd is also sometimes not so funny. My friend the Iraqi 2013-03-21T00:00:00Z I tried to smile and act oblivious to the absurd circumstances, but he only eyed me with greater suspicion. I’m an American Jew. Palestinians tried to kidnap me. Then we became friends 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z It robs the aspirational Bottom of the absurd dignity that in the best productions not only makes him a figure of fun, but a painful and touching character, too. A Midsummer Night's Dream - review 2013-03-08T16:04:46Z It exists in the growing trend of indie-tinged cable comedies who find humor not in traditional punch lines but in the absurd, mordant flow of everyday life. ‘Insecure’ Series Premiere: Single Black Woman 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z While “Soprano” is considered a pioneering work in the theater of the absurd, Ionesco preferred the term “theater of derision.” The Week Ahead: Sept. 25 ? Oct. 1 2011-09-23T18:25:15Z Perhaps better than any animal, they represent the absurd dignity of life, of abiding persistently in a world that is trying to kill you and will eventually succeed. TV Weekend: Last March of the Penguins? 2012-03-16T18:45:08Z His ability to pivot from the absurd to realpolitik is just as compelling to behold in its nascent state in “Better Call Saul.” ‘Better Call Saul’ Stars Bob Odenkirk of ‘Breaking Bad’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The first season of "Bridgerton" had an elaborate series of ruses contrived to keep the lovers apart for as long as possible, ranging from the accurate to the absurd. Dearest "Bridgerton" viewer, loosen your corset because this season smolders to the very end 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z He gives us a great many examples of product reviews, from the useful to the absurd. It’s Comments All the Way Down 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z And that's Lord Sugar debasing himself with the absurd idea that anyone has ever bought a nail clipper for Father's Day. The Apprentice 2013 episode six: live blog 2013-06-05T19:45:30Z “The Favourite,” with a profane, erudite script by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, is a farce with teeth, a costume drama with sharp political instincts and an aggressive sense of the absurd. ‘The Favourite’ Review: Scheming for Power in a Kinky Palace Triangle 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z A.I would say that for this season, it would be more to spark that curiosity of the absurd and that feeling of when you were a kid and going to that carnival. Lou Eyrich goes for ‘wonderment’ with her costumes for ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’ The cartoonist has an uncanny gift for dramatizing mundane realities and the absurd anxieties that accompany them. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z The slight erosion has been accompanied by a sharper attention to lyrics, which Ms. Maye delivered with a wry, good-humored warmth tinged with a sense of the absurd. Review: Marilyn Maye, at 88, Celebrating the Moment 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z All you could do was stare at the TV as the absurd gulf between rationality and Heston's "mission" deepened. TV review: Silk, Heston's Mission Impossible 2011-02-23T08:00:05Z Villoro recounts his adventures with a mix of irony and empathy, with a sense of humor and a feeling for the absurd. A Chronicle of Mexico City and Its Multitudes 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z With his contrarian bent, rejection of traditional virtuosity and a taste for the absurd, Satie seems to have prefigured Dada. Dada Was Born 100 Years Ago. So What? 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Obviously the play goes into the realm of the absurd. | Playwright Thomas Bradshaw on Race, Porn and Suburbia 2014-01-29T23:00:38Z I thought about the fact that “Lolita” had escaped the absurd gaze of the obscenity law. How ‘Lolita’ Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z She experiments with form, with language, with conjecture, with the absurd. Review | Zadie Smith’s debut short-story collection is a dazzling experiment in form and genre 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z “The Dadaist loves the extraordinary and the absurd. He knows that life asserts itself in contradictions,” wrote another. ‘Destruction Was My Beatrice,’ by Jed Rasula 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The hat provides the element of the absurd that Mr. Currin is known for. Jennifer Lawrence’s New Vogue Cover: a John Currin Painting 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z “The fact that it became such a big story shows how the media rewards the theater of the absurd,” said Pehme. The Swamp: inside a revealing look into Washington corruption 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z He's a fantastic dramatic actor with a great sense of irony and the absurd. The Hobbit premiere: New Zealand girds itself for An Unexpected Journey 2012-11-28T10:33:44Z He finds magic in the absurd and the minute. Indie Rap Veterans Return to a Genre Still in Need of Opposition 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Directed by Shelley Butler, this funny, deftly unsettling piece displays the absurd and destructive sides of romantic relationships. Review | Anxious men and other world-builders at CATF 2019 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z The book calls to mind the absurd, grim comedy of Thomas Bernhard, Samuel Beckett, or Withnail and I. But it's also a joyous book. Not the Booker prize 2011: the shortlist 2011-08-18T09:45:51Z Cheever's crowning achievement is the ability to be simultaneously generous and cynical, to see that the absurd and the profound can reside in the same moment, and to acknowledge both at the detriment of neither. A brief survey of the short story part 45: John Cheever 2012-11-16T11:05:54Z Visually, then, is captivating, and despite a lack of narrative, it evokes a universe that combines Lewis Caroll's knack for the absurd with the underlying violence of Grimm's Fairy Tales. Limbo 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z But Prose immediately starts spinning her own clever espionage thriller around the absurd one that Simon is editing. Review | Francine Prose’s ‘The Vixen’ turns Cold War paranoia into smart comedy 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Joke-driven comedies, by contrast, start with the absurd and unbelievable and go from there. Riff: ?The Hangover? and the Age of the Jokeless Comedy 2011-05-28T03:33:02Z Young adult television typically cleaves into two camps — it’s either about the absurd comedy of teenage life, or its unending tragedy. ‘Finding Carter,’ Starring Kathryn Prescott, Debuts on MTV 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z So instead they turned more and more to theory, to the absurd. Abroad: In Age of Globalism, Pardon My French 2010-04-21T22:03:00Z Particularly as he got older, he was more and more interested in the absurd and farce, and not having to be prove how serious he was. Director Morgan Neville on “They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead” and the last years of Orson We... 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The Cold War-era satire of the U.S. and Soviet Union's bumble to nuclear war managed notes both serious and the absurd, they realized. HBO's 'The Brink,' with Jack Black, is satiric about the geopolitical 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z It’s all a tribute to the absurd nature of the monuments men make to themselves. Datebook: The art of an influential school, video dystopia, the drawings of a Chicano activist 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Collectively titled We English, the large-scale prints form a series of petrified tableaux in which grouped figures, set against local landscapes, appear as stills from a theatre of the absurd. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z That Amazon boasts of being able to download a book called “Data Smog” in less than a minute does not escape his keen sense of the absurd. Books of The Times: Drumbeat to E-Mail: The Medium and the Message 2011-03-06T22:55:16Z His characteristic deflationary swerve from the lofty to the absurd, from high seriousness to utter banality, struck me as the very definition of funny. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z A lot happens in the just under 500 pages of this novel, and Homes keeps the pages turning swiftly with a blunt writing style and a relentless flair for the absurd. Unsettling 'May We Be Forgiven' not for everyone 2012-09-26T11:41:08Z It’s just that the words have been scrambled up by a computer algorithm and pieced back together, one by one, by writers with an ear for the absurd. Can algorithms be funny? Veterans of Clickhole and the New Yorker team up to find out. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z This is a play for the electronic post-9/11 age by a prizewinning, surreal writer who captures well the absurd elements of contemporary life. Review: 'Eskimos' at Open Circle is a tale for our modern, tech-driven age 2010-03-23T22:55:00Z The day before I went to Company, it was confirmed that the actor formerly known as Meghan Markle, 37, is pregnant, and amid all the absurd hyperbole there were some wearily predictable digs. Marriage by this age! Babies by that age! When will we stop giving women deadlines? 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z The spectacle of “Mr. Klein” is that of the absurd rendered ordinary, of the senseless depicted as normal. “Mr. Klein,” a Political Mystery of Mistaken Identity in Occupied Paris 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Dauntless, Mr. Pittman set off later that week in pursuit of Vaquera, a design team of four who are confectioners of the absurd. Chasing Fashion’s Cutting Edge 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Bernstine is always a revelation and always a gift, a sandpaper-voiced actress of good sense and great humanity with an ability to make the absurd seem perfectly plausible. Review: In ‘Evanston Salt Costs Climbing,’ Co-Workers Weather the Storm 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z I am very interested in the plays of Will Eno, master of the profound and the absurd. A Man in a Cafe Asked Julie Otsuka What She Was Reading. They Dated for Two Years. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Rude Britannia takes a broadly narrative and historical approach to graphic satire, while allowing for sub-sections to treat of the political, the bawdy and the absurd. Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Their depiction of menstruation intentionally verges on the absurd — I can only hope no one is getting pantsed while on their first period – to play on our greatest teenage fears of humiliation, especially regarding menstruation. The best and absolute worst onscreen first periods, from "Carrie" to "Turning Red" 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z In a Magritte-inspired bowler hat, umbrella in hand, Brent Carver is a wonderfully novel Jaques, dispensing with the usual sighing gloom in favor of an almost perky fascination with the absurd ways of the world. Christopher Plummer in Stratford, Ontario 2010-07-09T04:28:00Z Ms. Argento calls “Misunderstood” a personal rather than an autobiographical film, one that she’s drawn from her life with a strong sense of the absurd and a palette inspired by old Polaroids. Cannes Film Festival: Director Asia Argento on Giving Up Acting 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z It gave it a theater of the absurd feeling. Q&A with Rango Director Gore Verbinski 2011-03-04T16:50:00Z Since 2019, Andrew Callaghan, 23, has been crisscrossing the country in a beat-up R.V. with his two best friends, documenting the absurd, outrageous and infuriating aspects of American life. He Had an R.V., a Camera and a Plan to Document America. Was That Enough? 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Locke clearly knows the spy "genre" well and is a close and attentive reader - even if he blows it at the end by making the absurd suggestion that "in Le Carré's books everything works out". Reading group: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - does genre matter? 2012-10-04T09:01:34Z The charm of this Vine was its blend of the comic, the dubiously sexual and the absurd. The Year in Music Videos 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Now people came straight out and asked the absurd: Was it true? T Magazine: Suddenly Susan 2011-02-25T17:39:23Z “Niki and Flo” is a fascinating stylistic hybrid, its observant naturalism infused with a delicate, almost coy sense of the absurd. Movie Review: ?Niki and Flo,? a Film by Lucian Pintilie 2012-03-01T00:25:38Z The awful and the absurd are constants in Albee's career, from the excruciating battles of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to the talking lizards in Seascape. The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? 2010-04-26T21:00:00Z The first step, to judge by the absurd crew onstage, will be to change the storytellers. Review: In ‘The Thanksgiving Play,’ Who Gets to Tell the Story? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z “It’s too hard. It requires a very fine balance, a very fine calibration of the absurd and the believable.” Rep. Steve Israel, finding the funny in Washington’s corridors of power 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z “So now we’re really in the realm of the absurd,” Mr. Morgan said. Film: Eastwood Breaks Another Mold 2010-10-14T15:50:00Z It’s not the annoying personalities or the absurd playground-style fights or the drama that belies a fundamental lack of substance. ‘This American Wife’ Review: Wives Out, Knives Out 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z How much easier than to starve all day is it to amend the absurd, unachievable aesthetic to which all those serial-dieting suckers are struggling to conform. Lionel Shriver: 'If you're thin, you are a kook; if you're fat, you're a failure' 2013-05-11T07:00:27Z She entertains the absurd belief that the spaces between words are as important as the words themselves. The Language of Love 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z After all, a mild sense of the absurd, intellectual vanity and insatiable curiosity are not notably gendered characteristics. The bolshie, brilliant history of the women of Doctor Who 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Whether on a sketch program or an ostensible game show like the absurd, clue-driven “Take a Good Look,” Kovacs was always the real main event, aiming to surprise, entertain and, perhaps above all, play. That Kovacs Touch: Comedy?s Lunatic Fringe 2011-05-06T23:24:49Z The use, or overuse, of Baldwin has been much lamented by “S.N.L.” stalwarts, who claim that his Trump seems merely to parrot, with no discernible point, the absurd falsehoods and braggadocio of the commander-in-chief. “Saturday Night Live” Takes on the Midterm Elections 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z We have come to expect the absurd, the oddball, the incomprehensible and the impenetrable in contemporary art. British Art Show 7: have I got spews for you 2010-10-25T20:30:00Z Over all, they form a complex portrait of a re-forming city, one that’s best navigated with an appreciation for the absurd. Art in Review: Basim Magdy: ‘A Steady Progress of Nothingness’ 2013-05-02T19:31:24Z I have yet to hear a song that better captures the absurd dread of this dark American moment. Review | Bill Callahan found domestic bliss. Then he wrote the great apocalypse ballad of 2019. 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z What if we are detained on arrival due to the absurd difficulty of entering the region? Searching for Saboun Nabulsi, the olive oil soap that connects Palestinian-Americans like me to home 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z A morning that arrives with the huckster strolling into the Oval Office should always strike us—and the kids who already expect so little of us—as an instance of the absurd. Obama’s Lessons, Unlearned 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Claveloux’s comics encapsulate the desire to change or reinvent oneself — but also to undermine society and the absurd sense of order it imposes. Psychedelic Comics Like Beautiful Tattoos 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z There’s no one who has a better eye for the absurd and dehumanizing parameters of our current culture of capital. George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z “We studied a lot of theater of the absurd at Fordham and ‘building your inner ocean of weird’ was the thesis statement,” she said. How ‘GLOW’ Helped Betty Gilpin Embrace Her Inner Weirdo 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z As the absurd becomes commonplace, Berger’s work suggests, comedy has to be found in the mundane. A Political Satirist for the Internet Election 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z “We went into a labyrinth of the absurd,” he told me. Critic's Notebook: In L’Aquila, Italy, Lessons for Rebuilding From Storm 2012-11-30T17:51:12Z Here white racial paranoia — as a function of the absurd race concept — is based on contradictions and hypocrisy that nonetheless somehow cohere together. What fuels “white anxiety”? The baffling hypocrisies behind white paranoia politics 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z As it is, this band's nuanced grasp of the absurd slips a little at the end when the message becomes more partisan, with Occupy-style placards that say: "We are the 99%". Neon Neon – review 2013-06-08T23:06:01Z And Toyota busts the absurd myth that plant-based means somehow dining exclusively on kale leaves. Cookie butter should be slathered on pretty much everything, including cookies 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Who or what, in the final reckoning, is the true grotesque — the absurd, unhappy princess, those desperate to get close to her, or the system propping them all up? Beauty, Bad Temper and Scandal in a Riveting Look at Princess Margaret 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Like that film, “Wolf Like Me” mixes genres — this time romantic comedy and horror — to push into the absurd and come back with something sweet and dramatic. Love bites in ‘Wolf Like Me’ with Isla Fisher and Josh Gad 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z It wasn’t the Algonquin Round Table, but the chatter leaned toward the witty and the absurd. How I Became a New Yorker Cartoonist 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z The play is a tragedy with comic interludes, an exercise in the absurd. Review: 'Eskimos' at Open Circle is a tale for our modern, tech-driven age 2010-03-23T22:55:00Z Mr. Dean, a stand-up comic with a taste for the absurd, presents this comedic art project about his own work. Comedy in NYC This Week 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z I love being silly and my show is all about the absurd. Conan O'Brien brings Team Coco to the UK 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z A certain comfort with the strange and the absurd. Festival of Books: Bring on the anxiety for Khakpour, Doten and Nicholson 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Where the show used to beauty in a filthy subway and philosophy in the absurd, season 4 sometimes served up wisdom-on-a-platter in the form of characters like Charles Grodin’s doctor. REVIEW: Louie Watch: Going All In 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z He knew a little about the absurd forces of the strange mystery of existence. Twin Peaks recap: episodes three and four – nobody said it would be easy viewing 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z At the edge of Glacier Point’s 3,200-foot cliff, one of the most iconic places in Yosemite, the absurd daylight grandeur of Half Dome and the forested slopes exert their solemn gravity. ‘Entering Burn Area’: Yosemite After the Fire 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z The blend of realism and abstraction creates an aura of fantasy, hinting at the absurd expectations of propriety surrounding race and gender. At Tacoma Art Museum, portraits that reach out and touch you 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Definitely the books' oddly charming, often funny mix of the mundane and the absurd. A 'Sookie Stackhouse' junkie comes clean 2010-05-05T22:34:00Z This is, of course, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s satirical takedown of gun violence in the US, highlighting the absurd truth that school shootings have now become commonplace. Post-outrage TV: how South Park is surviving the era of controversy 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Then, 10 years ago, Sandford started his second, avowedly humorous series about Davenport’s sidekick, Virgil Flowers, who came to embody the author’s sense of the absurd. John Sandford: A thriller writer having a little fun with the genre 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Zweig at the time was regarded as one of Europe’s most prominent humanist-pacifists, and the absurd crudity of the police action so outraged him that he began packing his things that night. When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z “She’s like a female version of him, the way she approaches life with a sense of humor and an appreciation for the absurd.” Drawn to a Jazzwoman and Her Trumpet’s Clarion Call 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z He pointed out the flaws in their thinking, and would satirize the absurd logical conclusions of their otherwise illogical governing process. Jon Stewart's Daily Show skewered the powerful and pushed US satire forward 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z They find it hilarious that a birdwatcher would visit Colombia's most dangerous region looking for parrots; "thirty years of low-intensity warfare", writes Fountain, "had given the rebels a heightened sense of the absurd". Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain – review 2013-06-29T08:00:19Z The result, provoking more titters than thrills, comes perilously close to the absurd. The Turn of the Screw – review 2013-01-25T17:40:44Z Giuliani dismissed the action as “a theater of the absurd,” but The New York Times reported that “city officials were stunned” by the success of the strike. Will “alt-labor” replace unions? 2013-01-29T20:45:00Z However, the author displays a knack for uncovering the absurd and delightful. 3 Books That Take Us Inside the Lives of Britain’s Royals 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The moviemakers had an enormous heads-up — one bigger than the absurd skyscraper the fictional Mr. Grey resides in — about these issues. “50 Shades” of coercive sex: The movie is even worse than the book 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z The time when “works” of the talentless followers of Marcel Duchamp’s art of the absurd sell in the millions of dollars is not over yet. Auctions: A Serious Moment for Contemporary Art 2011-07-01T13:30:36Z Eça is a master of the absurd and his novels are full of such nincompoops, our cowardly alter egos. ‘Her Prose Is Sometimes Poetry’: Why Margaret Jull Costa Loves Virginia Woolf 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z By embracing the absurd and truly embodying it, Colbert has made politics and public policy uproariously funny, while providing much-needed bouts of sanity for devoted news junkies. Conservatives just aren’t funny: Why the right will never have its own Stephen Colbert 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Tort reform is clearly needed to hold down commercial liability insurance costs, but the absurd charges for care are due to providers, not payers. How Employer-Sponsored Insurance Drives Up Health Costs 2012-05-12T16:05:34Z Instead, the weariness coming from the show seems to be more emotional and civic-minded—an expression of shared uncertainty, a common lament about the absurd pace of the new Administration’s outrages and follies. “Saturday Night Live” and the Limits of Trump Mockery 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z His humor was mordant, with a refined sense of the absurd, but never cruel. Denis Johnson’s Generosity 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Saga is a delight - Benacquista has a fantastic sense of the absurd, and can be very, very droll. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z Another that I usually abhor are on relationships or self-help, but I’ve really enjoyed Laura Kipnis’s “Against Love” which explores the absurd rules of love and marriage in the West since the 19th century. Simon Sebag Montefiore: By the Book 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The New Yorker’s Talk of the Town section, meanwhile, found him seeming “unduly cheerful” for a philosopher of the absurd, a notion Camus gently rejected. Albert Camus, Stranger in a Strange Land: New York 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z I'm trying to create a show that catches you up on the news, but is specifically designed to find the funny and the absurd. Trevor Noah talks to Salon about worrying less about Trump’s spelling and more about democracy 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z It may fairly be said of Hillenburg that creating "SpongeBob Squarepants," and causing millions of people to laugh through the absurd antics of that show's carefree characters, was likewise his first, best destiny. Stephen Hillenburg, who brought joy to millions with “SpongeBob Squarepants,” dies from ALS 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Emma Watson: Makes a very valid point about the absurd pressures placed on women with regards to expectations over family/partners and that being single is fine. ‘Self-partnered’ Emma Watson is right: we need more ways to be single | Brigid Delaney 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z As much as the absurd voiceover narration would have you believe otherwise, driving heavy articulated lorries through a north Canadian winter is no laughing matter. TV highlights 15/02/2013 2013-02-15T07:00:35Z “The bill will stop the absurd holiday-season omnibus tradition of massive, loaded up spending bills introduced right before the Christmas recess.” House Republicans look to pass two-step package to avoid partial government shutdown 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z “At this point, President Biden’s refusal to demand a cease-fire is bordering on the absurd. For the sake of God, President Biden, stop this madness and demand a cease-fire.” Pro-Israel Biden under pressure from far-left pivots to anti-Islamophobia message 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Then there is the split-screen showing the competent and experienced current president on one side and the absurd circus of the House Republican caucus on the other. America's "split screen": Trump's lurid fantasy world vs. Joe Biden's reality 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z Raised by a devout family, she sought to build some distance from their faith to exorcise “the absurd fear of hell” she grew up with. Nearly 80% of Italians say they are Catholic. But few regularly go to church 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Raised in a very observant family, she felt she needed to exorcise “the absurd fear of hell” she grew up with. Nearly 80% of Italians say they are Catholic. But few regularly go to church 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z At this point in history, to interview Trump is nothing more than to engage in the political theatre of the absurd. Trump perfects the "Seinfeld" strategy: Experts on "the media's George Costanza problem" 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z "I denied the absurd actions of the opposition that are harming Poland," Mr Kaminski said, referring to the call with his German counterpart. EU demands answers about Poland visa scandal 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z As the evidence of impeachment-worthy Biden family corruption piles up, so do the absurd defenses mounted by Democrats and their media allies. Dems and news media allies test the limits of denial on Biden family corruption 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z A body, still belted to an airplane seat, lands in their yard, illustrating the absurd futility of surviving an anti-aircraft missile. Review: Horror of a passenger jet's downing is revisited, obliquely, in the arresting 'Klondike' 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z “This is not a trial, but a theater of the absurd – a journalist and a lawyer are being tried for disseminating information,” Mazheika said during the trial. Belarusian journalist sentenced to 6 years in prison for reporting on the opposition 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s feud with congressional Republicans reached the absurd Wednesday as he battled lawmakers over whether or not he was “smiling” while evading their questions. ‘I’m not smiling’: Mayorkas ducks answers as GOP fumes 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z The US had deemed him to be wrongfully detained in Russia, calling his trial "theatre of the absurd". Trevor Reed: Ex-US marine freed by Russia is injured fighting in Ukraine 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z There was so much focus on the absurd difficulty of Crawford’s play that many people didn’t notice that McCormick reached out and grabbed at France’s forearm, pulling it back as he caught the ball. Eugenio Suarez is showing he could be ‘pick to click’ for Mariners in second half 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z The court takes the absurd position that racism must be ignored for racism to be overcome. The Supreme Court enshrines racial imbalance | Charles M. Blow 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z In her dissent Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is the first Black Supreme Court Justice in the history of that institution, focused on the absurd reasoning and claim that American society is fundamentally "colorblind": Who will entitled white people blame now? 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z The avalanche of AI content is not limited to the absurd and satirical. AI campaigning promises to be a deciding factor in 2024 presidential race 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z That’s nowhere near all, but to say more would be to spoil this circus of the absurd — that actually ponders the nature of religion and the responsibilities of free will, among other light notions. The nun-vs.-AI joyride 'Mrs. Davis' never met a genre it couldn't mutate, and Betty Gilpin is there for it 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z When I think about Juneteenth, I think about the trajectory of my family and how it changed in such a powerful way — the absurd resilience of my grandfather. Seattle author Gin Hammond based her play turned novel on the life of her aunt Bebe 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Throughout the absurd “Jury Duty,” Gladden displayed several traits that parents would likely want in a son-in-law: empathy, compassion, thoughtfulness and he’s easy to be around. 'I think ur my soulmate': How Ronald Gladden became the nice-guy thirst trap 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Many White House officials dislike this idea because it is untested and can veer into the absurd. Debt Showdown 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Over a lifetime, the expectations around masculinity are random and often border on the absurd. Opinion | The Bud Light controversy reminds us how toxic masculinity can be 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The debate ranged from the absurd to the deeply philosophical. GOP’s bill to stiffen border security clears Judiciary Committee 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The latest work juxtaposes the horror of killing with the absurd, said Kitano, appearing on stage with his cast at a Tokyo hotel. Japan auteur Kitano’s latest samurai film headed to Cannes 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z I love talking politics, but sometimes this ventures into the absurd — such as the time eight people tried to debate me at once. Advice | Miss Manners: People are always trying to debate me on politics 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z You can make of its work what you will, but what initially felt awe-inspiring, often descended into the absurd. A Documentary: By ChatGPT 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z “This is a theater of the absurd,” he said. Putin’s Move on Nuclear Treaty May Signal End to Formal Arms Control 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z It meant the French electricity market was able to open up to competition, but EDF says it has forced the company into the absurd situation of subsidising its competitors. EDF: French energy giant posts worst-ever results 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z “I categorically deny the absurd statements reported by the press made today by the witness Veytia,” Mr. Calderón tweeted on Tuesday. Former Mexican President Accused of Supporting Sinaloa Cartel 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z So far in the 118th Congress, the displays have often taken the form of trolling, some bordering on the absurd. House G.O.P. Leads Constitution Read-Aloud, Seeking an Edge on Patriotism 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Three conservative judges, two of whom had been appointed by Donald Trump, did this for the absurd reason that such regulations did not exist in 1791 when the Second Amendment was adopted. Phony constitutional "originalism" is likely to kill women after Second Amendment decision 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z “We face the absurd situation where impunity is enjoyed by those who violate the law and collective punishment is endured by those entitled to its protection,” Mansour told the council. Israel and Palestinians clash at UN meeting as tensions rise 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z The latest example of this preference for secrecy is the absurd interpretation of the state constitution currently being invoked by legislators to keep public records to themselves. Legislators assert the privilege to hide information from voters 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z One thing is all but certain after the absurd uncertainty of the week: Dysfunction will be a hallmark of the Republican-controlled House going forward. Column: McCarthy and the GOP have only themselves to blame for their humiliation 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Then he went further, moving the day from protest toward the absurd in formally nominating the former president to be House speaker on the 11th ballot. McCarthy offers deal to end standoff in House speaker fight 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z “I’d like to think it captures that sense of the absurd that I loved about the novel.” How ‘White Noise’ pulled off the year’s strangest, most surprising dance number 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z A sense of the absurd also helped Karunatilaka cope with his strange year. How 2022's Booker Prize winner managed a whirlwind novel and a roller-coaster year 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Yet the sharpness of Gregory’s wit still finds the funny in the absurd: “I’m one Black cat who’s going to have all the kids he wants.” Review | Dick Gregory was many things. Filtered was not one of them. 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z She may have had a “fine appreciation of the absurd,” as Morton observes in his preface, but she rarely breached convention or emoted in public. Review | Princess Diana confided in Andrew Morton. What more is there to divulge? 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z The result is a precise satire of rock biopics as a genre and the absurd liberties these films take with truth and time, particularly when it comes to the creative process. The Great American Novelty 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z “Brazil is terrified watching events that, this Sunday, reach the peak of the absurd,” Arthur Lira, the president of Congress’ Lower House and a Bolsonaro ally, wrote on Twitter. Brazil pol and Bolsonaro ally refuses arrest, injures police 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z “It’s taking the logic of Brexit to the absurd,” said Professor Garton Ash, who has long lamented the vote to leave. How Tumultuous Forces of Brexit Divided U.K.’s Conservative Party 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Sometimes, the crackdown has veered into the absurd. Art Withers in a Country Where Anything Can Be Deemed a Threat 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z But it’s hard not to notice the absurd incongruity between their celebration and the years of freedom these miscarriages of justice have cost them. Opinion | For those freed after wrongful convictions, gratitude is a lot to ask 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z “I'm doing the absurd. He’s got the eight letters.” Perspective | Chewing over chutzpah with two ace practitioners of the craft 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z It also borders on the absurd to write that “Poroshenko’s love for the Ukrainian language was as hypocritical as his patriotism” because his family’s native language was Russian. Review | From a former aide, insights on Zelensky — and pride in Ukraine 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z At other times allegations have bordered on the absurd. Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann: The cheating row that's blowing up the chess world 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z “National responses were often improvisational, occasionally bordering on the absurd,” the commission states. Opinion | After ‘a massive global failure’ on covid, what happens the next time? 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z A “big lie” needs a small air force working behind the scenes to divert, obfuscate and defend the absurd claim that Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Opinion | Look! It’s the winged monkeys of the Wizard of Trump She opined that modern journalists, like herself, had helped to "normalise the absurd" and that going forward "whilst we do not have to be campaigners, nor should we be complaisant, complicit, onlookers." Emily Maitlis says BBC rebuke over Dominic Cummings remarks made no sense 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z I was referring at the time to her grotesque insistence that Democrats supported "infanticide" and the absurd threat to shut down the government unless Congress paid for Trump's stupid wall. Can complicit Republicans' change of heart on Donald Trump be trusted? 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z “When you eliminate the absurd, it’s Wuhan,” says virologist Gregory Towers of University College London, who leans toward a natural origin. Where did pandemic start? Anywhere but here, argue papers by Chinese scientists echoing party line 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z The outrageous story of the internet’s first celebrity sex tape so frequently borders on the absurd that any retelling could quickly become a farce. 'Pam & Tommy': A tale of up-dos, fake breasts, tattoos ... and a talking penis 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Often, they lean into the absurd: Protagonists have included a shrimp eating a shrimp cocktail; smiling pigs roasting over a fire; traitorous roosters slaughtering their own. Your Monday Briefing 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z But until then, it’s fun to marvel at the absurd lengths to which Nathan constructs a “rehearsal” of parenthood for Angela. Review | Nathan Fielder continues to elevate the prank show in ‘The Rehearsal’ 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z But today we live in a world where the absurd regularly becomes real and the horrible commonplace…. Is American democracy already lost? Half of us think so — but the future remains unwritten 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The Brit best known for “Downton Abbey” and “Cinderella” clearly enjoys the absurd. Lily James and Sebastian Stan find a real relationship at the heart of 'Pam & Tommy' 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z "We cannot have any discussion over the absurd." Greek PM Mitsotakis says Turkey's position over Greek islands' sovereignty 'absurd' 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Who won’t cheer if the absurd and exhilarating “Maverick” gives the movie industry the big win it so desperately needs? Column: 'Top Gun' casts Tom Cruise as the hero in the film and at the box office 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Coded protest can be subtle, ironic or bordering on the absurd. War critics in Russia, facing continuing crackdown, turn to craftier, coded protests 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z “Part of her seemed to stand apart and look back over the amazing things she’d done and take it in with wonderment and a strong sense of the absurd.” Judy Henske, folk singer known as ‘Queen of the Beatniks,’ dies at 85 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z The long wait before finishing things off came after the game took a turn toward the absurd. Angels Rookie Throws No-Hitter in Wild Blowout of Rays 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Washington branded Reed’s trial a “theater of the absurd”. Russian returned home in prisoner swap with U.S. says he was tortured in Liberia 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The United States called his trial a “theater of the absurd.” Ex-Marine Reed back in U.S. after prisoner swap with Russia 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The United States called his trial a "theatre of the absurd." Biden welcomes release of American Trevor Reed from Russia 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z "She likes the absurd - and when things go wrong, she's more likely to be amused than annoyed," Sir Anthony says. 'A great sense of humour': But what makes the Queen laugh? 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Here — spoilers ahead — Daniels zero in on how they cooked up some of their wildest ideas and found beauty and meaning in the absurd. 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' explained: Hot dog hands, empathy challenges and meaning in the absurd 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Although he spoke in a resonant baritone offstage, much of his humor derived from an exaggerated, high-pitched, nasal inflection and a sense of the absurd. Gilbert Gottfried, comedian with voice for controversy, dies at 67 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z The United States has called his trial a "theatre of the absurd". Russian court dismisses appeal of jailed former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z The United States has called his trial a “theater of the absurd.” Parents of U.S. ex-Marine jailed in Russia worried 'something terrible' happened to him 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z And the Queen's well developed "sense of the absurd" has been a vital private outlet from such a highly choreographed public life, where she often has to remain straight-faced. 'A great sense of humour': But what makes the Queen laugh? 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Florida — seemingly in pursuit of a designation as our national theater of the absurd — has just enacted legislation that critics called the “Don’t say gay” bill, for goodness sakes. Review | ‘Take Me Out’ loads the Broadway bases with wit and incisive drama 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z He denies the charges and the United States called his trial a “theatre of the absurd”. Ex-U.S. Marine Reed sent to medical facility after hunger strike in Russian jail - Ifax 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Until then, grownups should cultivate their dreams — and their divine sense of the absurd. Opinion | ‘I Need A New Butt!’ belongs in schools. No buts about it. 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z “We need to dispel the absurd but prevalent misconception that the FBI is an independent agency accountable to no one or even capable of self-policing,” said Rep. Thomas Massie, Kentucky Republican, in a statement. Republicans demand answers on FBI operations after audit reveals rules broken in investigations 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z He was convicted in a proceeding that the U.S. ambassador referred to as “theater of the absurd.” Opinion | Why I’m so concerned for WNBA star Brittney Griner 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z “This evangelical insistence of involving the sovereignty of God in the evil of Putin borders on the absurd,” Kennedy wrote recently in Baptist News. Russia-Ukraine war: Some pastors wonder about “end of days” 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z “Pivoting from nonfiction to create ‘Glory’ became an extension of my fellow citizens’ impulse to articulate the absurd and the surreal,” she writes. Review | In ‘Glory,’ talking animals bear a striking resemblance to real-life tyrants 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z Some bets, of course, have bordered on the absurd, including a Super Bowl offer on what color the Gatorade would be when the eventual winning coach was doused. Online Sports Betting’s N.Y. Debut: $2.4 Billion in Wagers in 5 Weeks 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z “People were conflating the definition of equity with critical race theory, and the absurd accusations that we were teaching critical race theory in classrooms to kindergartners began.” Some school systems pause diversity programs amid pushback 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z The disputes with Republicans are largely political theater, often centered around the absurd or the trivial. Democrats won't oppose the war state: Are they the lesser evil — or the more effective one? 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z It’s not so much that he said something completely unbelievable, because, well, it wasn’t the first time the absurd has come from his mouth. Mariners mailbag: Spring training? Only Rob Manfred thinks it’s starting this week 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z As the absurd bits pile up, the movie catches something of a rhythm. Review: Familiar rom-com 'I Want You Back' has its pleasures 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Foremost, the great humanity expressed was balm at a time when cops are under fire and the absurd “defund the police” movement continues to have supporters. Opinion | One city, two police officers and an entire nation in pain 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Up for the task was his chosen composer, Nicholas Britell, who regularly finds poetry in the absurd on “Succession” and brought sublime sadness to the Oscar-nominated scores for “Moonlight” and “If Beale Street Could Talk.” How Nicholas Britell mixes reverence with absurdity in the 'Don't Look Up' score 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z I still believe that for many of them, at least in the beginning, that's precisely what it was: theater of the absurd. I was there for the day that poisoned America — and I think we can still recover 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z There, he will likely continue his pathological attachment to the absurd fiction that he won the 2020 election. Opinion | We were lucky more people weren’t killed on Jan. 6 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z A Twitter thread brought attention to some of the absurd tags that ended up getting filtered out on iOS, including the tag “submission.” Tumblr goes overboard censoring tags on iOS to comply with Apple’s guidelines 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z These vary from the significant, like Apple storing user data on servers run by Chinese state-owned firms, to the absurd, like Amazon deleting all reviews under five stars for Chinese president Xi Jinping’s book. Intel apologizes to China for following US sanctions targeting Xinjiang ‘genocide’ 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z What can help empower progressives the save themselves is a shared capacity to laugh at the absurd rather than be imprisoned by it — a capacity to mock those who would make a mockery of democracy. Theocrats are coming for the school board — but parents are starting to fight back 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z He denied the charges and the United States called his trial a "theatre of the absurd". Ex-U.S. Marine's parents urge Biden to push for jailed son's freedom at Putin talks 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z While Miami’s art week is a draw for serious collectors, it is also full of the absurd, including diamond and gold chicken wings. Celebs, fashion, 24k chicken wings kick of Miami’s Art Basel 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Without ranked-choice voting, D.C. could repeat the absurd result of the 1995 Ward 8 special election to choose a member of the D.C. Opinion | A pending election debacle in D.C. 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z "She is present throughout the film – commenting and sometimes narrating the absurd life and party lifestyle of Hunter Biden and the dodgy dealings of his father," the producer added. Gina Carano joins cast of Hunter Biden biopic ‘My Son Hunter’ 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z For some, the antidote to these strange times of masks and mandates, partisanship and pandemic, might be to embrace the absurd and the dark and have a holiday laugh. Check out these 2021 Seattle holiday shows for a dose of good cheer 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z He denies the charges and the United States called his trial a "theatre of the absurd". Ex-U.S. Marine Trevor Reed says he ends hunger strike in Russian jail 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z He said the ruling was clearly political, and Washington called his trial a "theatre of the absurd". Ex-U.S. Marine held in Russia starts hunger strike over treatment, family says 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z We need to break away from the absurd cycle of mis-spending funding, slashing lifesaving programs, undermining public health experts and resources, and then blaming people for dying. As overdose rates reach record highs, it’s time to reimagine American drug policy 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z When Mr. Komuro returned to Japan late last month to quarantine before the marriage, the scrutiny grew even more frenzied, bordering on the absurd. At Last, a Royal Wedding. But No Trumpets, Just a News Conference. 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z Other amendments to, and exclusions from, Mr. Adams’s autobiography have ranged from the procedural to the absurd. What Kind of Mayor Might Eric Adams Be? No One Seems to Know. 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z An eye to the absurd makes for a museum that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Perspective | A lot of museums reopened this year. But I was waiting for the Hirshhorn. Here’s why. 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z This act would put an end to the absurd notion that any appropriation for military spending amounts to presidential authority for use of force. After the Milley incident, it's time to limit presidential powers — or regret it forever 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z In Murmansk, the absurd lengths apparently meant to keep Ms. Grudina off the ballot included forced hospitalization in a coronavirus ward. As Russians Vote, Resignation, Anger and Fear of a Post-Putin Unknown 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The media coverage does not acknowledge the defeat, replacing it with the absurd idea that, by withdrawing, we defeated ourselves. Remembering 9/11: The evil we do is the evil we get 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z “I have not announced this because it borders on the absurd,” Mr. Aydelotte said. Road ‘Warriors’: The Marathon That Looks a Lot Like a Gang War 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z A compliant media whistling past the theater of the absurd assisted in the fraud. Biden buyer’s remorse 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Instead, we now live in a world built on the absurd idea of infinite growth within a finite territory — the very definition of unsustainability. Behavioral science won't fix the climate crisis 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z Trump ramped up his vague threats of political violence, mixing the unsettling and the absurd in vintage style: Donald Trump rallies the troops in Phoenix: Unfortunately, that's not a metaphor 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Axelrod is correct in castigating the absurd dogma: “All larger communities are bad. All small, neighborhood-based group homes are good.” Opinion | Where People With Disabilities Do Best 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z According to series creator Simon Welton, the absurd conceit combined the plight to “help get rid of all the nerves of a first date” and the fascination with a “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” trope. How they made the 'ridiculously silly' masks in Netflix's 'Sexy Beasts' 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z He said the ruling was "clearly political", and Washington called the trial "theatre of the absurd". Russia transfers ex-U.S. Marine to region with tough Soviet-era prisons 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z The playwrights categorized in Esslin’s “theater of the absurd” are a disparate crew, diverging as much in style as in substance. The early Harold Pinter play that speaks volumes about our current moment 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z And the state of capitalism, and the absurd price of a Birkin bag. Opinion | The Ascension of Bernie Sanders 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z I felt as if nothing was said between us, but there was an appreciation for just the absurd dance that we were both doing, as these guys talking about something that wasn’t particularly interesting. End of a late-night era: 28 years of memorable Conan moments "When I was painting this, my mood was far more akin to the dog bin than the sky. I've always liked the absurd in the profound," he says. Timothy Spall: 'I was crying, swearing and chucking paint' 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Marine jailed for nine years last July, as the "theater of the absurd" and lacking serious evidence. Biden-Putin summit: Who might walk free if they agree a prisoner swap? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z His unrelenting repression of domestic dissent has included the prosecution of a U.S. academic under the absurd pretext that he directed an attempted coup against Mr. Erdogan. Opinion | Biden’s test in Europe: Drawing red lines with Putin and Erdogan 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z African Americans are right now being told the absurd lie that the problem in America is that it is too easy for them to vote. Laughing at Trump's "backward" pants won't save us from the 21st-century gulag 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z With the announcement of the third Paris lockdown last month to try to control the spread of the coronavirus, an apotheosis of the absurd was reached. The Entangling, Ever-Extending Labyrinth of French Lockdowns 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z Given the absurd number of transfers this year, a few teams stand out as worth backing a year in advance. NCAA TOURNAMENT 2022 TITLE ODDS: UCLA, DUKE AND 8 MORE TEAMS THAT CAN WIN IT ALL 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Fans of the podcast “Welcome to Night Vale,” the show “Twin Peaks,” music fans or anyone with a taste for the absurd would do themselves a favor by listening, he said. Man behind ‘Fake radio station’ show plans more projects 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Joe’s illusions, Salt concluded, “are in fact the absurd reality of our time.” Review | ‘Midnight Cowboy’ was a masterpiece made of desperation 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z And the absurd and unhelpful contemporary notion that jobs that require years of training and education somehow define their practitioners as surrogate mother figures holds everybody back. Men aren't being encouraged to take caring jobs — and that's hurting everyone 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z Their only ammo is weak: tabloid trash about his son and the absurd idea that Joe is out of it, a smear that only became more risible after watching Thursday’s news conference. Opinion | Just Give It a Go, Joe 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z Let’s just say what they found doesn’t match the absurd sky-is-falling warnings from Republicans about mass laziness and fictional welfare queens. Column: What will Biden's $1.9-trillion COVID-19 relief plan do for Americans? Ask Stockton 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z Sydney Tellez, associate state director for the progressive good-government group Common Cause New Mexico, said Friday that current safeguards against conflicts of interest border on the absurd in lower state courts. State may pioneer public financing of lower-court campaigns 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Both bring light touches rather than reaching for the absurd or overdoing with cinematic flourishes. Review: In 'Days of the Bagnold Summer,' life is ordinary — and beautiful 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z The fact that only seven Senate Republicans bolted should end the absurd talk that there is a burden on President Biden to achieve a bipartisan nirvana in Washington. Opinion | The beginning of the end of Trumpism 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z "The significance of the entire head bandages is reflecting on the absurd culture of Hollywood celebrity and people manipulating themselves for superficial reasons to please and be validated," he said. Super Bowl Halftime show: How did The Weeknd do? 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z People were expecting a shootout, but not the theater of the absurd. 1,708 yards! Patrick Mahomes vs. Baker Mayfield won't eclipse their epic 2016 showdown 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z I don't know if he came to believe the absurd conspiracy theories he spun about the election or if they were just a frantic web of lies he wove to keep himself from coming apart. Donald Trump won't survive this American carnage of his own making 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Think of it as a corny year-end review crossed with “Spinal Tap,” dipped in “Veep” and sprinkled with the absurd reality of our times. Spend your New Year's Eve wishing 'Death to 2020.' You won't regret it 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z We thanked her and chuckled at the absurd response, but we decided to heed the advice anyway. ‘As the Train Pulled Out of the Station, the Older Man Stood Up’ 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z Beyond the absurd demand that his voters and other decent Americans should embrace Trump's deplorables, Biden may even include some Republicans in his administration to show "middle America" that their concerns are being "heard." Donald Trump's herd immunity: Who's the real "enemy of the people"? 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z As with all humans of this type, those whose fame and deeds live inside your head so vividly, it was hard to avoid the absurd impulse that he should also recognise you. Brave, intelligent Diego Maradona was a man who moved through different air 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z He sent out a fund-raising message praising the news conference with his lawyers, a dripping Rudy Giuliani and a rabid Sidney Powell, laying out the absurd phantom global conspiracy that is thwarting Trump’s re-election. Opinion | The Lady and the Trump 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z Some moments veered into the absurd, as the president’s lawyers tried — and failed — to use Trump’s reality-bending logic on baffled, unbending judges. Trump lost at the ballot box. His legal challenges aren’t going any better. 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z In a recent conversation with The Times, Vaughn admitted the absurd concept of the Blumhouse vehicle “scared me a little at first,” adding, “But I felt like, ‘Well, that’s probably good.’ Critics are shocked too: Vince Vaughn is scary good in 'Freaky' slasher comedy 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z But first let’s examine the absurd basis of the Texas lawsuit and the hints about the outcome of the case that one can divine from the justices’ questions. Column: The Supreme Court Obamacare case centers on technicalities, but much more is at stake 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Bach’s “The Abduction of Figaro” — rises to a more substantial theater of the absurd. Review: In a fantastic 'Covid fan Tutte,' Salonen ushers Mozart into the age of coronavirus 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z But the council did so on Wednesday for the wrong reasons, and a majority is still gung-ho to pass the absurd policy in late November. Reject Seattle’s absurd misdemeanor proposal 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z It is not at all surprising that Mark Hamill heartily blurbs two new books by left-leaning political cartoonists who traffic in the absurd. Review | From two cartoonists, twisted takes on life with Trump 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Worthy of mention is the absurd care taken in the reintroduction of this classic to home theater viewers. Best Blu-ray & 4K UHD horror movies: ‘Psycho,’ ‘The War of the Worlds,’ ‘Beetlejuice,’ and more 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z The Hollywood Chris debate is a running joke among Twitter users — mostly highlighting the absurd existence of four famous Chrises that bear a striking resemblance to one another. After Twitter came for Chris Pratt, his Marvel costars came to his rescue 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Though his company may be facing a daunting, even existential threat, he is approaching it, as he always seems to do, with humour and a Python-esque sense of the absurd. Paul Smith: ‘I’m still blessed with enjoying every day’ 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z Indeed, where many people get hosed on spark plugs isn’t the cost of the product but the absurd prices that mechanics charge to install them. Column: GoodRx IPO shows there's a lot of money to be made from bewildering drug prices 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z The cartoonist says “Woke” takes a similar approach, combining the serious and the absurd. Keith Knight’s show ‘Woke’ feels right on time. But he’s been drawing about police brutality for decades. 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z He noted that a presidential nominee speaking at the convention broke “the absurd tradition that the candidate should remain in professed ignorance” until he is officially notified weeks later. No president or nominee ever spoke at a convention. Then FDR broke the rules. 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Political operatives even tried to sell the absurd and instantly disproved lie that Harris was ineligible for the role because she was the daughter of immigrants. Kamala Harris' identity shows us the limits of our labels 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Throwing books at enemies in a library or a palette and paint brushes in an artist’s studio certainly tickled my fancy for the absurd. Review | ‘Superhot Mind Control Delete’: A familiar (yet intriguingly unfamiliar) sequel This theater of the absurd required hiring workmen from Pennsylvania to remove the statues in the dark of night. Opinion | Removing statues in the dark of night only fosters divisiveness 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z It's time to do away with the absurd myths of transcendence and speculative longshots when it comes to the technologies that so deeply impact our lives. Tech barons dream of a better world — without the rest of us 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Back then it was simply a brushback pitch, legal theatre of the absurd. Trump is trying to block publication of John Bolton's book. What's he scared of? | Lloyd Green 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Bruce Jay Friedman, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter who was best known for his comic novels and plays that veered from broad humor to uncomfortable encounters with the absurd, died June 3 at his home in Brooklyn. Bruce Jay Friedman, novelist, playwright with an edge of ‘black humor,’ dies at 90 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Rimes's tweet seemed to encapsulate the absurd reality of life at home with kids in the time of the coronavirus. Teaching across an abyss of silence 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z “Our challenge is to expand health coverage while competing with the absurd spending power of the United States and Europe,” he said. Brazil, Once a Leader, Struggles to Contain Virus Amid Political Turmoil 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z That’s right, but it took the absurd arrest and jailing of a salon owner for him to realize this? Government overreach and the jailing of Shelley Luther 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z However, an unnecessary burden has been distracting our focus and undercutting international efforts to curb the virus: the absurd mind-set of “always blame China.” Opinion | Chinese ambassador: Ignoring the facts to blame China will only make things worse 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z The drive to get in the water has manifested in offenses from the comical to the absurd and in enforcement that has varied from shots fired to nothing at all. The Coronavirus Swell: Surf’s Up. Stay at Home. 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Then I realize I am the absurd one. I’m an E.R. Doctor in New York. None of Us Will Ever Be the Same. 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Camus was preoccupied with the absurd — with Sisyphus condemned, like mankind, to pushing a stone up a hillside. Perspective | In Camus’ ‘The Plague,’ lessons about fear, quarantine and the human spirit 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z So we may well find ourselves in the absurd position of taking governmental assistance to pay the government its tariffs. Opinion | The costs of the coronavirus pandemic: economic, scholastic and cultural 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Watching him repeatedly attempt to save the universe made me reflect on the absurd expectations I place on myself. Opinion | The Healing Power of ‘Steven Universe’ 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Since then, it’s been the daily grouching at the stay-at-home directives, the hint that they’ll be relaxed soon, the absurd promises that a vaccine is ”very close”. Trump's narcissism has taken a new twist. And now he has American blood on his hands | Jonathan Freedland 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z The bungling of this endeavor is spectacular, the lived experience of it, a theatre of the absurd. Dear President Trump: I need a coronavirus test right now. Where is it? | Graeme Simpson 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z The argument that the typical household’s and individual’s quality of life has not improved for decades, says Strain, “borders on the absurd.” Opinion | The false bipartisan narrative on the economy 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z After all, the Premier League is a multiplex, and there are few more box-office managers in the world than Bielsa: a method actor in football’s theatre of the absurd. Marcelo Bielsa: a method actor in football's theatre of the absurd 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Yet that essentially is what four council members declared with the absurd censure votes that followed. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z There is, in all these characters, a free-floating element of the absurd, an utter fearlessness about looking ridiculous. Yes, Joaquin Phoenix deserves his best actor Oscar — but not for 'Joker' alone 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z He added, “When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.” Opinion | The Age of Decadence 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Terry Jones had a love of the absurd that contributed much to the anarchic humour of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Monty Python's Terry Jones: Master of the absurd 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z The Bucks are on pace for 71 wins, a remarkable feat that borders on the absurd given that none of their players, not even Antetokounmpo, ranks in the NBA’s top 50 in minutes per game. Analysis | Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Bucks are the NBA’s best team — and its most misunderstood 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z The US – China trade deal is like watching a live show in the theatre of the absurd. US stands firm on tariffs ahead of China trade deal signing - business live 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z That doesn’t really compute, given the absurd excellence of his Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City teams, and it will be interesting to see how he responds. Aston Villa v Manchester City: Premier League – live! 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Women know there is no point in being a billionaire – no one needs that much money – so we are not willing to do the absurd things men do to get into that position. Race, literature, lovers ... and fake breasts: my chats with Elizabeth Wurtzel 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z In that short time, the absurd became the norm, ignorance became a virtue and lying has sadly become the order of the day. How to spell out Donald J. Trump? 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Several others then picked up the wine cave narrative from the stage, with things taking a turn to the absurd when Andrew Yang coined the phrase “shake the money tree in the wine cave.” Newsletter: Greetings from the wine cave 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Viewers in the late Soviet era had become accustomed to a heavy lexicon of bureaucratese and boosterism that verged on the absurd. The Kremlin’s Creative Director 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The video is elegiac, the absurd suit’s heaviness equaling that of a romantic partner at the time. Review: Nayland Blake turns bunnies and shoes into meditations on sex, power and prejudice 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z An artist of goat poems and wicked knives and forks fearlessly embracing the absurd, singing with abandon. The Mister Rogers No One Saw 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Less the cream of the cream, Nunes is more like the curd of the absurd. Devin Nunes is bravely defending Trump. That's bad news for the president 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z “With his optimism he tries to justify himself, to invent, to introduce himself and to enter into fantasy and the absurd,” she said recently on the Italian television program “Le Ragazze.” Maria Perego, Italian puppeteer who created the mouse Topo Gigio, dies at 95 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z The futility of the entire endeavor borders on the absurd. Watching my students turn into soldiers of empire 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z He’s one of three changes to the XI named for the absurd eight-goal thriller with Ajax. Chelsea v Crystal Palace: Premier League – live! 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z It is not known if all the operations that followed were related to the infections, though the absurd number of operations would indicate that the infections were severe. LOVERRO: Smith reveals he had more leg surgeries than reported — a lot more 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z |
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