| 单词 | absurdity |
| 例句 | And so in my cave, coughing from the smoke and clenching feet on fire with chilblains, I ground my teeth on my own absurdity. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I want to laugh at the absurdity of it—Veturius giving me the key to my brother's freedom, just as I realize that such information might not mean anything. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Did not the statement, “You do not exist,” contain a logical absurdity? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The absurdity is plain: he remains smaller than most of the fourteen-year-olds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The sheer absurdity of it all was helping her to regain her composure. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The cruelty of racial prejudice was so often accompanied by absurdity, a tangle of arbitrary rules and distinctions that subverted the shared interests of people who had been taught to see themselves as irreconcilably different. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Then—as a crowning absurdity, my salvation that moment—came the man the thanes called Unferth. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Elizabeth loved absurdities, but she had known Sir William’s too long. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z For. several moments we all stared at our cold eggs and pancakes and thought about the absurdity of the situation. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Everyone knows that drill ceases only in the front-line and begins again a few miles behind, with all the absurdities of saluting and parade. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Hickock laughed, presumably at the absurdity of his friend’s ambitions, sighed, and shook his head. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Otherwise there was nothing but betrayal, and that meant going back to serve Bledsoe, and Emerson, jumping from the pot of absurdity to the fire of the ridiculous. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Many drank to mask the absurdity of their lives. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The architecture had a spareness and an economy of line that were pragmatic to the point of absurdity. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m just demonstrating the absurdity of English spelling.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “First, that grading is not an exact science. Second, this case has demonstrated amply the absurdity of setting grades by public hearing.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z To appreciate its absurdity, one can imagine future historians lumping American history with Canadian, Australian, South African, and later South Asian histories, into a conceptual monstrosity called the “Britishistic” period. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “And even after that, when the robots recall the human absurdities of sacrifice and compassion, they will remember us.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a suggestion. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z The chief expected us to disavow any such absurdities before he could endorse our church. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We would often talk about situations and people connected to the case that, for all the damage they had caused, had still made us laugh at their absurdity. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z As soon as she crossed through the front door, she shed herself of the accoutrements of her absurdity, and had to fight the urge to dump them behind a wastebasket. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Happiness, of course, is a complete absurdity at this point, since at the rate things are going, I’ll be dead in a day. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z If the style of dress is an absurdity, it is pain and sorrow to a child not to wear that absurdity. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Think about the absurdity of brushing your teeth, of arguing with your mother over the appropriateness of what you’re wearing to school, of homework, of grade-point averages and boyfriends and hot school lunches. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Not specifically at what he said, but at the absurdity of the whole night. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z The absurdity of this logic is evidenced by the fact that police almost never claim to stop anyone solely because of race. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In its smutty absurdity the situation was irresistibly comical. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z We both start laughing—at the absurdity of our shared experience, the relief of recognition. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z And I knew that it was better to live out one's own absurdity than to die for that of others, whether for Ras's or Jack's. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He flushed faintly at what seemed to him the absurdity of his own question. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Douglas and Nora raised their eyebrows simultaneously, nodding slowly, as if to let the absurdity of the names settle in. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “I cannot tell till I have thought it all over. If, on reflection, I find I have fallen into no great absurdity, I shall try to forgive you; but it was not right.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The world just loves to laugh at the absurdity of insanity. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The absurdity of this reversal of fortune may not have struck millions in the industrialised world after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 as all that implausible. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Sorry, guys, Mom’s dead,” he finally blurted out, blunt to the point of absurdity. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z A person shouldn’t look too far down her nose at absurdities. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It took a few seconds for the absurdity of this statement to sink in. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I had switched from the arrogant absurdity of Norton and Emerson to that of Jack and the Brotherhood, and it all came out the same—except I now recognized my invisibility. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In what seems the height of absurdity, the “threat of infestation of the New York City metropolitan area” has been cited as an important justification of the program. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Maybe thinking about the procedural absurdities of the Court’s order was less overwhelming than thinking about its meaning. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I allow myself a chuckle at this absurdity. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I said, trying not to laugh at the absurdity of my situation. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z When Hattie told me that this earl or that duke loved her, I laughed over the absurdity of it to him. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z When Mary stood to cut the cake, Tony was struck by the absurdity of the scene. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Despite the absurdity of feeling such a thing at that moment, in those circumstances, he flushes from top to bottom, tingles and goose bumps all over. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z This sport in all its absurdity did a special thing for Ben Meecham: it made him happy. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She chuckled, presumably at the absurdity of such an ambition. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as significant as each other but completely bypass a peanut. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z But at least the absurdity of the premise has a historical precedent: Terra Firma is based on a real place called Sealand, established in the late 1960s off the east coast of England. Review: In ‘Terra Firma,’ a Wee Wet Country on the Brink 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Like “Romantic Comedies,” the central piece, “21 Extremely Bad Breakups,” pushes its conceit to the point of absurdity, and then far beyond. These Short Story Debuts Are ‘Squirmy,’ ‘Virtuosic,’ ‘Claustrophobic’ 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z It was one of the first books to confront the Vietnam War in all its hallucinogenic awfulness and jarring absurdities. Vietnam War reporter Michael Herr, who helped write ‘Apocalypse Now’ and ‘Full Metal Jacket,’ dies at 76 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z In Sunday afternoon’s performance the music did its part to imitate unconsciousness and the absurdity of dreams; it was finely executed, sometimes quite moving, but secondary to and sometimes dragged down by the spoken narrative. Music Review: Unconscious Lessons of a Jazzman 2011-05-09T22:19:36Z Many of the absurdities presented by works in the show seem to lead back to the market. Did Someone With a Trust Fund Paint This? 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Lelio is acutely sensitive to the absurdities of everyday life, including the comedy of humiliation, both petty and wounding. ‘Gloria Bell’ Review: Love Is in the Air for a Transcendent Julianne Moore 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z That same day, he tweeted: “Twitter will soon add ability to attach long-form text to tweets, ending absurdity of notepad screenshots.” She Worked for Twitter. Then She Tweeted at Elon Musk. 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z All together, though, the casts constitute a symphony of magical absurdity, demonstrating both the elasticity and the uselessness of our human faculty for picking out objects and naming them — in this case in block capitals. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z The point, though, is that the band leant the incident a sort of absurdity that lead her to recount it humorously. Jane Goldman: 'The only way Hit-Girl could be not sexualised was by being 11' 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z "He's good at puncturing absurdities and challenging stereotypes," said Rebecca Davis, a TV columnist for South Africa's Sunday Times. New 'Daily Show' host Trevor Noah heralds a new frontier in TV: diversity 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Perhaps Salt of Life is an indulgent commentary on the Italian male in general and the toxic absurdity of Silvio Berlusconi in particular. Salt of Life ? review 2011-08-11T20:30:03Z Over the course of the novel, in a series of three- and four-page chapters, Hunt draws Constance through the weird mixture of horror and absurdity of a nation tearing itself apart. In Hunt’s ‘Neverhome,’ natural poetry from a young wife who fights for the Union Fourth Grader Disappears; Exotic Quest Ensues “Bureau of Missing Persons,” a new play by Lila Rose Kaplan, is sprinkled with bits of absurdity and magical realism and other charms. Theater Review: ‘Bureau of Missing Persons,’ a Play by Lila Rose Kaplan 2013-06-20T22:04:17Z Thus did Mr. West return to Paris Fashion Week: with family in tow, outreach on the mind, a dose of bombast, a dollop of absurdity and a piece of home. Kanye West Returns to Paris Fashion Week 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z “D” is packed with Dickensian absurdity involving procedures and forms and regulations. Review | Michel Faber’s ‘D’ is a quirky adventure for readers young and old 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z It’s that kind of absurdity that nearly obscures the horror of what can happen to the church’s inner circle. HBO’s ‘Going Clear’ details Scientology’s theater of the surreal 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Their lightning-quick trial, marked by procedural violations and absurdities, has highlighted the crackdown on dissent in Russia. Pussy Riot: 'we still burn with desire to take Putin's monopoly on power' 2012-08-27T14:43:50Z With the standard rise, fall, and rise again narrative arc that many of these documentaries follow in place, the absurdity of the situation starts to take over. 7 Days in Hell: HBO's tennis mockumentary is a grand slam 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z There are misunderstandings with shepherds, awkward negotiations with village elders and an overall atmosphere of suspicion tinged with absurdity. Review: ‘Neither Heaven Nor Earth’ Engages the Horrors of War 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The judge noted the absurdity of the segment in dismissing Moore’s lawsuit, which sought $95 million in damages. Judge tosses Roy Moore’s lawsuit over Baron Cohen interview 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Working and travelling were especially important to Kirk, and she directed much of her ire at the absurdities of constrictive Victorian clothing. How to Pitch a Magazine (in 1888) 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z A risk of absurdity always attends the willingness to surrender oneself to the spell of any mere object: the dirtied swatch of cloth that is a painting, for example. The Spectacle of the Spectacles 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z If you’re traveling for business, you have an extra layer of absurdity — your corporate travel policy. Aspire to travel the world? Read this before you go. 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z “The Leftovers,“ a fantastical drama of spirituality and loss, proved that with enough grounding, the wildest absurdities can heighten the emotion. ‘Mrs. Davis’ Review: Algorithm and Blues 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z In its first season, its audience, presumably largely progressive, could revel in Watergate’s absurdities, and in Richard Nixon’s amusing hubris and short-sightedness, while being reassured, almost subliminally, about our own era. “Slow Burn” Season 2, Reviewed: The Painful Lessons of the Clinton Impeachment 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Martin often spikes his work with an impish, self-deprecating humour, revealing the absurdity of our aspirations to longevity, even as he falls foul of those vanities himself. Artist of the week 105: Kris Martin 2010-09-16T11:03:00Z But for all its absurdity, the pairing of Fedora and Loris can catch fire with committed singers. Review: The Met Opera Found an Audience for ‘Fedora.’ For Now. 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Cullum, a TWA pilot for more than 30 years, was a classic gag cartoonist whose visual absurdities were underlined, in most cases, by a caption reeled in from deep left field. Leo Cullum, Longtime New Yorker Cartoonist, Dies at 68 2010-10-26T01:10:00Z Latest Thing: To underscore what he believes is the absurdity of some oddly shaped congressional districts, Mr. Sheehan is selling jewelry in the shape of those gerrymandered districts. Splaining How Government Works to Young Voters 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z In this parallel universe you’ll also find that the hosts and guests are genuinely, thoroughly, discussing the news, debating it and laughing over its absurdities, hour after hour. The Odd Couple 2010-05-07T22:14:00Z When Florida became undecided, it triggered a weekslong recount that “The Daily Show” carefully detailed in all its absurdity. Look back in laughter: ‘The Daily Show’ celebrates at 25 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z The five-year-old loved the absurdity of Daddy wearing a tea-cosy as a hat, and the three-year-old thought the tiger's attempt to eat a radio was the height of hilarity. The Tiger Who Came to Tea – review 2012-07-18T16:55:03Z Although, leaving absurdity aside, repeated images over a long period may inhibit our actions, it's rare that television manages to shock or scare us. Rewind TV: How TV Ruined Your Life; Scenes from a Teenage Killing; Posh and Posher; The Killing 2011-01-30T00:06:19Z Best known as the host of “The Daily Show,” Mr. Noah brings to his comedy an outsider’s gift for observation and an instinctive radar for the absurdities of life. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Showing up styled as the entity known to the public can assert power — yet it risks absurdity, under unflattering fluorescent lights, juxtaposed with lawyers, judges and courthouse personnel in their everyday work uniforms. Perspective | At trial, Gwyneth Paltrow is dressing for where she’d rather be 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z The absurdity can be spotted in quick moments: A Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad officer was kept out because he didn’t have a credential, while a woman with celebrity Wolfgang Puck scooted through. On the Oscars red carpet: Gawking, quick conversations and tequila 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z The absurdity of that situation was to imagine that it wasn't common for women to close the eyelids of their husbands with a sigh of relief. Getting On is not just funny – it's radical, profound, a masterpiece 2012-11-23T19:00:01Z “It really made you look at the absurdity of color and how we perceive it in human beings, which is I believe, ultimately what killed us,” she said. David Henry Hwang’s ‘M. Butterfly’ Followup: ‘M. Turkey’ 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z From every stop on the tour, he brings back souvenir absurdities, such as a billboard advertising “The First Indigenous Laughter School in Africa.” For this globe-trotting Hamlet, all the world’s a stage 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Translated into adult situations, the words of children take on a new gravity, but also highlight the absurdities of the adult world. Monkey Bars – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-16T10:54:39Z Phoenix brings a wild physical energy to his role – in truth, his character verges on the preposterous but Phoenix tackles it with such commitment that he just about keeps absurdity at bay. Dark Blood - first look review 2012-10-01T12:54:20Z In any theatre bigger than a postage stamp, the entire thing would look overblown in its sweet-as-cotton candy absurdity. State Fair 2010-08-05T21:15:00Z For me, they speak of the absurdity of life. A Catalan Christmas 2011-12-16T18:49:33Z He described his next project, “Las Mimosas,” which he said would deal with Moroccan caravans, the myth of Faust and a Sufi wise man, as an “idealistic film about the absurdity of idealism.” Oliver Laxe?s Morocco Film ?You All Are Captains? 2011-10-16T04:10:13Z The sculptures made in the immediate wake of his internment, writes critic Jason Farago, “are freighted with a bitterness and absurdity rare in his art.” Essential Arts & Culture: NEA threats, the Lucas museum vision, minimalist music and the return of Zubin Mehta 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z It was the kind of straight-faced reporting of manifest absurdity that creates a richly ambivalent environment for memes to thrive. Ironic Occultists for Marianne Williamson 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z He is a newscaster as performer, and at times he plays a comedian, making folks laugh at the absurdity in the far-flung world. Tom Hanks' "News of the World" is a toothless throwback Western 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z “How sad is that,” Maureen asks, her tone combining heartbreak with astonishment at the absurdity. ‘Harris Wittels was the funniest person I ever met’ – Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman and Aziz Ansari on a lost comic genius 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z The whole world is one wide sheet of paper and he dips his nib into the inky night as if to write one never-ending haiku dedicated to the absurdity of interruption. My Cancelled Detectives 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z The thrill of the series, which is now streaming on HBO Max, is that it is well aware of its own absurdity. Can Cads Be Redeemed? A Raunchy Dating Show Investigates. 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z The connection to “The Americans” is more tenuous, but “Patriot” manages, despite its essential absurdity, to give the appearance of telling a credible story of international espionage. Review: Amazon’s ‘Patriot’ Takes the Spy Thriller to a New Place 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Everything he wrote was basically about his life and the absurdities he faced, and the great characters he met. Only Fools creator Sullivan dies 2011-04-23T17:21:45Z Norman has ploughed this terrain for much of his career, and brings to his subject both a deep fascination with the ecology of rock'n'roll plus a sharp eye for its absurdities. Best biographies of 2012 2012-11-29T17:00:01Z Much of the comedy comes from the absurdities of Henri’s deceptions and the increasing absurdities of his efforts to regain her love—as well as the silliness and frivolity of Robert’s own romantic exertions. An Essential Retrospective of the French Filmmaker Jacques Becker at the Newly Renovated Film Forum 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z MacLean goes on to point out that elected officials, such as Ted Cruz, are seemingly "smart" people with many degrees among them, and yet they continue to engage in such "absurdity." Bill Maher on why republicans are obsessed with pedophilia 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z But for a writer whose preoccupations have often included sex and absurdity, it provided a lot of material. Patricia Lockwood likes to write in bed. 'Priestdaddy' is her memoir 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z "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 Since the Joneses' own situation is a synthesised absurdity, the emotional issues it generates aren't too engaging. Consumerism triumphs in The Joneses 2010-04-26T10:22:00Z His characters are closer to ordinary sympathetic humanity, with ordinary foibles and absurdities. Amour – review 2012-11-15T15:29:01Z The Musical” rests a little too smugly on the sheer absurdity of its conceit, which is itself a little shopworn at this point. | 'Silence! The Musical': The Knives, and Forks, Are Out 2011-07-12T02:01:43Z But revisiting “Courage” now, decades later, I can better appreciate all the ways the series distinguished itself in my childhood TV lineup, and the emotional depth beneath its gothic absurdity. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Courage the Cowardly Dog’ 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z I'm not sure if it was the growing absurdity surrounding the preparations, or perhaps a mutual recognition of the other's talents. The sweet potato casserole feud that almost imploded Thanksgiving 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z "Glee" is such an original, imaginative show with so much fun and absurdity packed into it. "Glee" could be great -- if it weren't so awful 2010-10-09T23:01:00Z We abandoned it pretty quickly, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it, and about the questions it raised about virtual versus real, mortality and the afterlife, and the absurdities of living in the Internet age. This Week in Fiction: Lara Vapnyar on Living According to Leonard Cohen Lyrics 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Response to the costume has been a mix between those who find it hilarious and those who can’t help but mock the absurdity of it. Urban Outfitters selling 'Influencer' Halloween costume that's just leggings and a bra: 'The dumbest thing I've ever seen' 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z The responses have been traveling a wild arc, taking in music and comedy, sincerity and absurdity. How Big Can a TikTok Duet Get? 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z As at many Encores! productions, these absurdities must be met with indulgence, since the essential mission of the series is to give primacy of place to the score. 2010-02-06T06:35:00Z Comics that ponder the absurdity of human behavior by viewing everyday life through the eyes of aliens. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z The production drew appreciative if mixed reviews, with The Globe and Mail calling it “frequently delightful” and “full of laugh-out-loud moments of absurdity.” ‘All Our Happy Days Are Stupid’ Heads for a New York Run 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Everywhere Ms. Didion went, it seemed, she found the identical set of circumstances: looming chaos, an atmosphere saturated with dread and absurdities described by unwitting participants in clichéd language indicated by quotation marks. Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Giddins’s pen is at its sharpest in his account of Crosby’s film career as he skewers Hollywood’s manifold absurdities. Review | How Bing Crosby bounced back from personal and professional malaise 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Like the slightly canted angle that the director Viesturs Kairiss uses throughout the film, this playful conceit offers an off-kilter perspective on the past, emphasizing the tragic absurdity of human brutality. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z “Having lain there, sisterly, so close, for so long, the women bristle at the absurdity.” Stashed in the Marsh, Left in the Road: Victims Pile Up in Four New Crime Novels 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z In response to the unexpected absurdity of the feral hog question, the internet’s meme machine went into overdrive. How 30-50 feral hogs invaded Twitter in 3-5 minutes 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Terry Hands's revival is quite the opposite, presented at a lively lick that enhances the absurdity of a media frenzy that trivialises the campaign for justice into a discussion over Mrs Winslow's choice of curtains. The Winslow Boy – review 2013-05-08T17:07:43Z They're the ones who cue the audience to the absurdity of their master's malevolence, cheering when he shouts, "We stole the statue of Liberty!" Despicable Me Review: It's Pickable! 2010-07-09T09:05:00Z The absurdity seemed to paralyse Diane for a while; the unreality brought her to a point of near-apathy that has surely tempted many over the last 18 months. The Good Fight: in praise of Diane Lockhart, one of TV's greatest characters 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z What to call a speech Full of wild absurdities? Style Invitational Week 1321: Pumping Prime — Amazon product reviews 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z She then laughs uneasily at the absurdity before continuing: “But it was really the combination. And it changed the dynamics.” Movie Review: ‘Anita’ Revisits the Clarence Thomas Hearings 2014-03-20T23:42:19Z The lovely Off the Wall captures a 56-year old's confusion at the absurdity of a climate of "chaos in the streets" and "days of rage". Lee Ranaldo – review 2012-06-10T14:12:24Z It’s progressive yet crowdpleasing, faithful to the tenets of the genre yet wise to its own absurdities. Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins: ‘People really thought that only men loved action movies’ 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z But what stands out about “BlacKkKlansman” is how expertly Lee modulates tone, playing up the fish-out-of-water absurdity of Stallworth’s operation while suggesting a history of white supremacy in America that continues to manifest itself today. Where to Stream ‘Green Book,’ ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ and Other Big Oscar Winners 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Still clinging tenuously to Odessa, the Nasmertovs experience the American Dream on Ambien — a groggy sleepwalk through one surreal absurdity after another. ‘Panic in a Suitcase,’ by Yelena Akhtiorskaya Why the CIA should be interested in this prolonged absurdity is the abiding mystery of “Madness Is Better Than Defeat.” Review | Can anyone figure out what’s happening in Ned Beauman’s new comic novel? 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z When the opera had its premiere at the Salzburg Festival last summer, Anthony Tommasini wrote in The New York Times that the “powerful score reveals the harrowing absurdity of the situation.” Highlights From the Met Opera’s 2017-18 Season 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z At the centre of all these jokes is the comic himself: bemused, cowardly and adept at involving us in each situation's absurdity. Kumail Nanjiani – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-20T17:12:07Z He is both appalled by — and seems to delight in — the height of philosophical absurdities. In posthumous manifesto, Charlie Hebdo editor speaks out against hate 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z At worst, it will combine the various absurdities of artificial and human intelligence.” Cracking the Codes of Leena Krohn 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z It soon descended into brilliant absurdity and there was no way I had read anything like this before.It was funny and ridiculous. Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading today? 2013-03-12T16:10:04Z It’s a character tic, but it’s nice to think that Jackson is signaling that he’s hip to the absurdity. ‘Glass’ Movie Review: A Nutty Ride With M. Night Shyamalan 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The annihilation threatening contemporary America wasn't evil, it was absurdity. From "Meatballs" to "Ghostbusters," Ivan Reitman was the anarchic boomer voice for Gen X nihilism 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z She intercepts hateful slurs like those and turns them into ferocious comedy gold that exposes chauvinism as the absurdity it is. Review: ‘Trainwreck’ Delivers the Full Amy Schumer Experience 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The first volume of Lewis’s Haydn was excellent, if perhaps just a tad self-serious for this composer’s absurdities. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The trial in August was marked by procedural violations and absurdities, hearings were often interrupted by shouting sessions. Pussy Riot row 2012-11-20T18:44:43Z To be passionate about a show about nothing, a show about the absurdities of life, is to associate it with the grind of your own life. My afternoon at the Seinfeld apartment 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z And it is he who eventually points out the absurdity of defending a weapon that would be useless in the event of war. Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun – review 2012-05-28T11:08:05Z Kyle had a confessional or two joking about the relative absurdity of the dish being served so casually — but then that was that. The "Real Housewives" diet: Why we are seeing caviar everywhere when Americans can't afford eggs 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z Hill's production even overcomes the absurdity by which Valentine fails to penetrate Phoebe's disguise. Quality Street ? review 2010-12-06T22:15:00Z “Beloved” is at once whimsical and heartfelt, alive to the absurdity and perversity of amorous behavior and also to the gravity and intensity of human emotions. Movie Review: Catherine Deneuve in ‘Beloved’ 2012-08-17T15:23:01Z It’s so true, even in its absurdity, that you can’t help but laugh every time you see something for sale with a bird on it in the real world. Brunch, beets and locally sourced chicken: the 10 best Portlandia sketches 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z At the Brooklyn Steel show, Lenker kept returning to the basic absurdities of expression and continuance. The Ordinary Brilliance of Big Thief 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The opera becomes a farcical look at the absurdities of American social, political, military and religious elites, all represented with stock stereotypes. Music Review: Love Beats Science in a Spoof by Menotti 2011-08-14T22:00:12Z But there's also much here that evinces his fascination with and appreciation of life, and his uncanny ability to capture its contradictions, absurdity and joys in spoken word. 'And Everything Is Going Fine': Spalding Gray at his eloquent, daring best in documentary 2011-01-13T21:08:03Z The comedy that runs through “Everyone Knows” is a magical brew of absurdity and brutality. Review | The story of Europe’s infamous witch trials gets the Monty Python treatment 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Ms. Chast plunged into deeply personal waters while keeping alive her keen sense of absurdity. Why Roz Chast Makes Fun of White Middle-Class New Yorkers 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z The comedian also highlighted the absurdity of a statement made by "Fox & Friends" host Steve Doocy, who denied that the detainment centers for children resembled prisons. Colbert condemns Trump: Migrant family separation “another scoop from your chum bucket of cruel... 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z I was curious about how an actor of color might approach entering a world not written for someone who looked like them, but I realized the question was riddled with absurdity. Perspective | More actors of color are being cast in roles traditionally played by whites — while feeling extra pressure to succeed 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z This magical totem of a book bursts with beauty, absurdity, generosity and the surprise of the natural world. Nighttime Picture Books to Put Children to Bed — and Their Fears to Rest 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Arnold recognizes the absurdity of his playing Bob Woodward — a minor celebrity investigating a minor-celebritocracy — and “Hunt” is at least half a comedy, sending up its star’s manic obsession and D-list status. Review: Tom Arnold’s ‘Trump Tapes’ Blows Smoke With No Smoking Gun 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z One such trick is just to see the existential absurdity of your torment in the context of the fleeting nature of time. You're not alone: how to survive your horrible boss 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z ABC was moribund in comedy until it secured the sitcom about the daily absurdities visited on three interrelated families. In a Gloomy Economy, TV Sitcoms Are Making a Comeback 2011-10-23T23:40:12Z Mr. Kenney, who worked as a copywriter in New York for 17 years, is funny enough about the absurdities of this world to compensate for his obvious theme of finding authenticity. ‘The Miniature Wife,’ by Manuel Gonzales, and More 2013-01-30T20:24:47Z Although none of the far-fetched shenanigans that follow match the story's initial conceit in real-life absurdity, the movie desperately piles on more and more silliness with a fundamental absence of credibility. 'Why Stop Now': Rehab comedy/drama overdoses on silliness 2012-08-23T20:56:12Z He can make a realistic setting seem deliciously weird, and the highlights in these stories often feature simultaneously funny and plaintive images that encourage our appreciation for “the pleasant absurdity of America.” The anxious, disappointing world of Jeffrey Eugenides 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z The magazine, whose name alludes to the pain remedy Tylenol, promises to apply the sweet balm of reason and linguistic clarity to relieve such alarming symptoms as galloping absurdity, inflationary fever and intellectual congestion. Alexander Melamid Begins Artenol, an Art Magazine 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Eidinger, an expert prima donna, brings out the tragic absurdity of men who blindly follow orders. ‘Persian Lessons’ Review: Performing for His Life 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Rather, it was exposing the absurdity of Carlos Slim’s attempt to cleanse his image through charitable donations. Protesting has never been so hilarious 2013-05-16T16:37:00Z It also has to be pointed out that most male stripping routines achieve absurdity long before any g-strings hit the floor. Male strippers: Please, just leave it on 2012-06-29T00:00:00Z “We both laughed at the absurdity of being in one of the most beautiful places on earth, and then seeing this drone.” After a Few Dates, They Traveled to the Other Side of the World 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z The Mumbai depicted in Manil Suri's third novel swells under the promise of nuclear attack with the same mixture of bombast, absurdity and yearning. The City of Devi by Manil Suri – review 2013-03-21T09:00:01Z Breathed struck me as someone who was very tickled by the absurdity of ‘80s culture.” Bewildered in “Bloom County”: How its long hiatus transformed the still-beloved comic 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z A decade after climbing back from rock-bottom drug addiction herself, she is “basking in the hallucinatory absurdity of how great things had worked out against all odds,” she added. Natasha Lyonne, So Much More Than ‘the Girl’ 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z There's more to When Faith Moves Mountains than mere absurdity. Francis Al?s treads the thin green line 2010-06-14T20:30:00Z With his Pynchonian name and alarming toupée, Dr. Mantleray is a farcical figure, and his absurdity encourages “Maniac” to maintain its eccentric orbit. The Design of “Maniac” Offers an Uncanny Imitation of Life 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The clash of expectations between a rough American businessman and an Israeli innocent abroad provides the basis for some smart comedy, and Cohen is particular adept with moments of silly absurdity. The comedic clash of an American businessman and an Israeli innocent abroad 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Pointing out that kids performing 17 minutes of competitive musical theatre is daft isn't necessary – it's there in its Alice In Wonderland-themed absurdity for all to see. On the Money With Robert Peston 2010-06-07T05:45:00Z Meichsner's work highlights the absurdity and growing homogenisation of the everyday. Andreas Meichsner photographs the madcap world of product-testing 2013-03-15T17:02:08Z A lot of the comedies have body counts, and all of them are antic expressions of dire absurdity. My Favorite TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z The great irony, or the sublime absurdity, is that like a priest who practices his faith after the death of God, Daoud esteems Camus even as he exposes the Nobel Prize-winning writer’s blind spots. An Algerian novelist takes on Camus in ‘The Meursault Investigation’ 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Their flat way of speaking highlights the subtle absurdity in everything: confetti translates to “tiny trash,” teeth are “mouth stones” and coffee is “jitter liquid.” ‘Strange Planet’ Review: An Alien’s Guide to Being Human 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Riley’s over-the-top absurdity makes visible a generational shift. “Sorry to Bother You” exposes the danger of bourgeois integration 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Whereas, in his finest work, Williams is aware of the comic absurdity of almost everyone, here he confronts us with a stark choice. A Cavalier for Milady ? review 2011-04-03T20:29:00Z We just never got near it and it was kind of obvious to us that it’s a really fun world to play in when you can introduce absurdities like diaper-eating. Tim and Eric reflect on their dark comedy: ‘Life is a real nightmare’ 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z It is curious to listen to people on television debating the effectiveness of this policy or that plan, often arguing themselves into the absurdity that because nothing has yet worked, nothing new should be attempted. Perspective | Obituaries are the only redemptive news anymore 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Let’s pause for a moment to consider the absurdity of this situation. Why won’t American Airlines refund my son’s airfare? 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z The only thing faster than his mouth was his mind, which was capable of breathtaking leaps of free-associative absurdity. Robin Williams, an Improvisational Genius, Forever Present in the Moment 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z The absurdity of the art market is the absurdity of our whole financialized society — but it’s a lot more entertaining, because it comes with pretty pictures and without so much unnecessary suffering. 15 Documentaries That Get Inside an Artist’s Head 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z A recurring riff, “Random Things I’ve Noticed in My Life,” includes observations on the honesty of the name Milk Duds and the absurdity of the term meteorologist. One Work of Dance, Theater and More to Experience This Weekend 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z “What’s annoying about it is, like, if things keep going the way they are going, I might well get it at some point,” he said, chuckling at the absurdity of the situation. Daniel Radcliffe Does Not Have Coronavirus 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Thus ensues a little comedy in the transfer of stones between cupped hand, pocket and mouth, a little routine about desire and dissatisfaction and existential absurdity that evokes the laughter of self-recognition. Review: Arcane Collective Turns a Beckett Trilogy Into Physical Theater 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z But throughout the play her keen ear for comic absurdity grounded in truth is matched by a probing compassion for her characters, even when they are viewed through a sardonic lens. Review: ‘The Heidi Chronicles,’ With Elisabeth Moss, Opens on Broadway 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Howard delivers the poetry in handsome tones of lyrical woe, but Mr. Sexton might, at least, have lessened the absurdity by having Marcus cradle the suffering young woman in his arms. | 'Titus Andronicus': ?Titus Andronicus? at Public Lab - Review 2011-12-14T03:01:00Z The absurdity of "over 40" A person goes through many ages and stages in life. The absurdity of "over 40" 2011-06-16T20:17:00Z Among Kushner’s most pointed themes is the absurdity of America’s ideology of choice, the nation’s cruel devotion to the fantasy of free will. Review | If you like despair — and ‘Orange Is the New Black’ — you’ll love ‘The Mars Room’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z I recently filed House Bill 396 to illustrate the absurdity of government encroachment into women’s personal and medical decisions currently running amok in the Kentucky General Assembly and Bevin Administration. “It is time we regulate men’s reproductive choices”: Kentucky lawmaker on why her new bill limits Viagra access to married men with notes from their spouses 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a witty show: funny, dry, sometimes silly and perfectly at home with embracing the absurdities of its supernatural setting. Demons, death and dynamite dialogue: the 20 best episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z They just prefer to cloak them in absurdity. Television: ?Happy Endings? and Its Bumpy Beginning 2011-10-15T22:30:09Z Luxenberg’s history contains so many surprises, absurdities and ironies that it would be a shame to spoil the final chapters by revealing which justice ended up on which side. The Tumultuous Path From Emancipation to Segregation 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z It's a clever idea that, around the mid-point, stumbles into absurdity as the movie itself makes too many lunatic choices. The Adjustment Bureau: Matt Damon's Battle of the Angels 2011-03-04T17:00:00Z Other highlights of this first week include Lucrecia Martel’s “Zama,” a lovely looking, formally inventive and often dryly witty exploration of colonialism, its crimes and absurdities, set in 18th-century South America. New York Film Festival Is a Feast for True Believers 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z To this absurdity she replies, bitterly, “Well, thank God it’s grammatical, because the whole world is reading it.” ‘A Very English Scandal’ Review: Sex, Intrigue and Bunnies 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Its steadily increasing absurdity creeps up on you, as in one of those dreams that feel truer than waking existence. Theater Review | 'A Lie of the Mind': Home Is Where the Soul Aches 2010-02-19T04:40:00Z I tell Mirza that my first reaction to his art was to find it funny: there's an absurdity to it, with its record players playing cardboard disks, that is liberating and fun. Haroon Mirza: Play that funky cardboard 2011-03-08T22:00:00Z It’s no surprise that in the work she experiments with elements of humor and absurdity. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Each is, in its own way, a deeply moral work that explores the absurdity of environments in which taking lives is no big deal. Orlando Bloom and Aidan Turner Are Drenched in Blood in London 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z In the late 1960s he and Mr. Komar, influenced by Pop Art and Dada, turned the visual language of Socialist Realism into a series of wicked commentaries on the absurdities of Communism. Alexander Melamid Begins Artenol, an Art Magazine 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z To my mind these outweigh the many small absurdities that EWR inflicts on the unsuspecting traveler. Readers Respond: Airports That Work 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Or perhaps it merely encapsulates the ballooning absurdity of our times, and our increasing desperation to laugh at anything. Lil Nas X Is the Sound of the Internet, Somehow 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z When the book was published, teachers immediately recognized the absurdity that Ms. Kaufman satirized, even if school officials did not. Bel Kaufman dies at 103; author of bestseller ‘Up the Down Staircase’ The label intones that the piece “highlights the absurdities of simulating a physical experience in a virtual environment” and that the parade of failure “undermines both our expectations of technology and its promise of progress.” Art Review: A Muse in the Machine: Click. Create. 2011-05-26T14:55:57Z "Pickle Rick" travels a tonal spectrum between utter ludicrousness and dead-sober epiphany, and it hits the mark not despite its core absurdity, but because of it. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe comedy is a woman's work 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Few match his skills at capturing and conveying onscreen the idiosyncrasies, awkwardness and absurdities of everyday conversation and life. And the Oscar Winners Will Be ... 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z In their satirical focus on the absurdities of the media, Bob and Ray were also a forebear to “The Daily Show” and “Saturday Night Live.” Recalling Bob and Ray, Who Paved the Way for Today’s Deadpan Humor 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z It’s mostly improvised, and all manner of absurdity occurs along the way — from hosting a live fetish party to giving haircuts to members of the studio audience. Meet the next comedian to change late-night forever: Chris Gethard, talk show renegade for the Tumblr generation 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z The absurdity of this inane chitchat taking place as some of the most wrenching moments in theatrical history are occurring outside has a certain mordant humor. 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z Sullivan’s thoughtful writing and direction mirror Montgomery’s wry, loving tone, which understands the absurdity of life and approaches it with humor, à la Jane Austen. How Not to Adapt “Anne of Green Gables” 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z They sort of laugh at the absurdity of the situation. ArtsBeat Blog: Touch of Evil: Eli Roth Recreates Infamous Experiments for Discovery Channel 2011-10-28T20:30:39Z You see the same current of absurdity in his work on other platforms, like Vine, or YouTube, where in January he released a video parodying TLC’s melodramatic series “My Strange Addiction.” Meet 17-Year-Old Indonesian Rapper Rich Chigga 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z In this sense, the subject of “Midsommar” is the absurdity and obtuseness of suspending moral judgment for other cultures in the name of curiosity, respect, or relativism. “Midsommar,” Reviewed: Ari Aster’s Backwards Horror Story of an American Couple in Sweden 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z We're a group of people who write jokes about the absurdity that we see in government and the world and all that, and that's it. Vintage chat: Moyers and Stewart 2011-05-18T16:30:00Z “Loving Day” tips over into high comedy — and into absurdity — when Tal becomes a student at the cultlike Mélange Center for Multiracial Life. Review: Mat Johnson’s ‘Loving Day’ Takes a Satirical Slant on Racial Identities 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z “There’s an absurdity in it, obviously,” Mr. Wilson said, perhaps raising an eyebrow at Barnes’s adherence to the notion of permanence. A Wink at the Quirks of a Famed Collector 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z At the same time, there was part of me that couldn’t stop thinking about the absurdity and surrealness of it all. Royal Caribbean’s ‘Smartship’ Avoids a Titanic Situation 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z In this space he concocted anecdotal, surreal cinematic reflections on not just human absurdity but human suffering, rendering them in single-shot tableaus. ‘Being a Human Person’ Review: Watching a Surrealist 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z It is, to borrow from the Platform itself, something of an exercise in naming absurdity. The Week Ahead: Feb. 20 ? 26 2011-02-17T15:17:47Z Hinged between mystery and absurdity, they are as funny, freaky and frightening as they are titillating. Artist of the week 85: Lisa Yuskavage 2010-04-28T14:29:00Z But he was a natural, revealing the hybrid of absurdity and mundanity that is a rich, famous person’s existence. Analysis | In 2000, ‘Cribs’ became a phenomenon. 20 years later, we’re all living in an accidental reboot. 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z The absurdity of it all is hard to resist. It’s the future, everyone’s famous: From the A-List to the “Z-List,” fame isn’t what it used to be 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Amid unthinkable stress, omnipresent suffering and months of prolonged uncertainty, the decoration is outsized in its morbidity and absurdity, an emblem for this Halloween and this year. Home Depot's giant skeleton is a metaphor for this year's outsized morbidity 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z And the only way to respond to news coverage that takes seriously the absurdity of the Trump administration is with smart sarcasm. Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert step up: Donald Trump made “The Daily Show” and out-of-character Colbert relevant again 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z Source Code is absurd, but carries off its absurdity lightly and stylishly. Source Code ? review 2011-03-31T14:00:01Z This doesn't mean you can't insert some jokes at the grim absurdity of it all in there, but jamming skits into unnecessary act breaks is not the way to do that. "The Problem with Jon Stewart" has a few issues, but nothing that a little tough love can't fix 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z At other times, it’s built into the absurdity of the premise. Louis C.K.’s New Special Mines Comedy From the Middle Ground 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Yet she felt secure enough in her family’s care to have picked up her father’s bravado and, with it, his sense of absurdity. How to Live to 100 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z There is a Beckett-like sense of absurdity lurking in most of what he photographs. Sublime, ridiculous 2010-08-27T23:02:00Z But eventually “Titanique” comes into its own as it revs up into increasing absurdity and the actors try to out-ham one another. ‘Titanique’ Review: A Musical Finds Its Sea Legs 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z There’s a casual absurdity in the opening sentence of the essay “Jesus Raves” in Jordan Kisner’s debut collection, “Thin Places.” Blurred Lines: An Essayist’s Dispatches on Slippery States of Being 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The song was “Desert of Absurdity,” a 10-minute opus inspired by Albert Camus’s “The Myth of Sisyphus,” a philosophical essay that confronts the absurdity of existence via that old Greek story about a doomed boulder-pusher. Review | In chaotic times, Mizmor’s heavy metal is a model of composure 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z And if there were prizes to be handed out for sheer absurdity, a whole lot of people would be wearing tiaras today. Miss America brushes off the bigots 2013-09-16T14:25:00Z The problem with these scenes isn’t their comedy, their absurdity, or their incongruity; it’s their particular execution. “Destination Wedding,” Reviewed: Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves Suffer Through One of the Worst Sex Scenes in Recent Memory 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z But maybe that’s not entirely surprising for a movie loosely about authenticity and the little absurdities that abound in New York City. Review: In ‘Person to Person,’ the Real-ish Humans of New York 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Bloom takes this story seriously, but as the business hurtles toward disaster he also writes with a winking awareness of the absurdity of Iridium’s predicament. 'Eccentric Orbits' chronicles the stunning failure (and improbable revival) of the Iridium satellite phone 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Commissioned by the Public Art Fund, the piece was one of the largest group crawls orchestrated by the artist to date, and was likely the most organized deployment of his artistic absurdities. Crawling Through New York City with the Artist Pope.L 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Jep is entirely content with his shallow and amusing world; he is a connoisseur of its exquisite surfaces: an Italian flâneur, a botaniser on the Roman asphalt, happy with ephemeral absurdities. Cannes 2013: The Great Beauty - first look review 2013-05-21T07:10:06Z As with many of the greatest flamenco dancers, the intensity with which he presents himself is always on the cusp of absurdity. Flamenco by Israel Galv?n - Review 2011-09-22T15:59:55Z The frequent zooms — a signature Duplassian tic — are like quiet double-takes, as if the camera were raising its eyebrows in mild amazement at the absurdity of what it sees. Movie Review: ?Jeff, Who Lives at Home,? a Duplass Brothers Comedy 2012-03-15T22:12:53Z This schism between realism and cartoon amplifies the absurdity of his story lines, letting him sneak in his social criticisms. Shigeru Mizuki’s War-Haunted Art and Life 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The director got across the lunatic absurdity of the whole project and the sense that Petit’s walk was not just a physical feat but also an act of art. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z It's an end-of-the-world cabaret full of the frail absurdity of humanity. Popcorn Machine 2013-01-15T12:35:23Z The drink isn’t really hailed for its drinkability but rather, its absurdity. From Jones Soda to stuffing-seasoned popcorn, why are there so many Thanksgiving-themed snack foods? 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z In his opinion pieces, he drew from a wellspring of random nuisances and absurdities, noting how life often doesn't add up, especially in the modern day. Andy Rooney: Each Sunday he looked at the everyday 2011-11-05T12:52:13Z It’s less that Mr. Cedar blends realism with absurdity than that he refuses to acknowledge any distinction between them. Review: Richard Gere as ‘Norman,’ an Aspirational Jewish Fixer 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Don Quixote – a man, don't forget, who has lost his wits reading idealistic books about "impossible absurdities" – sets out on his charger into a world that conforms to no rules and won't ever sit still. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z But the tonal slipperiness of Mr. Monkman’s art, with its compound of anger and absurdity, social realism and serious camp, comes through. A Cree Artist Redraws History 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Even back then, as he deals with Harrison’s anger, McCartney recognizes the absurdity of how Ono is viewed, particularly when she claims a spot right next to Lennon at the sessions. You know the Beatles. Here are 16 other important names in the epic ‘Get Back’ series. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z This was a group that understood the inherent absurdity of rock-and-roll yet still took its tacit mission to purge the dread, boredom and sexual frustration of an entire generation with heroic seriousness. Perspective | Can Iggy Pop hear the future? 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Letterpress printing drove up his manufacturing costs, and some of the label’s projects have seemed to push the boundaries of absurdity. The Vinyl? It’s Pricey. The Sound? Otherworldly. 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z He is good on the dangers of heterodox thinking, the absurdity of academic bureaucracy, and the problems of treating climate change as a quasi-religion. The Heretic - review 2011-02-11T00:20:01Z Tree Tremont lets his guard down, even cracks a few jokes about the absurdity of his situation. How a Novel Could Help Turn Around Tiger 2011-07-22T09:00:00Z The Vatican called assisted suicide “an absurdity” after Brittany Maynard chose to end her own life rather than succumb painfully to brain cancer. In These Novels, Women With Cancer Decide to Ditch the People-Pleasing 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Some of the absurdity seemed intentionally humorous, appealingly random. Pierre Rigal Imagines a Pop Concert at the Joyce 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Like awards season in other entertainment fields, the Tonys circuit is filled with the pressures, perks and occasional absurdities of an increasingly packed calendar. Jessie Mueller's 'Beautiful' dilemma 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Even if you were unaware of that on first viewing, the tension, frustration and absurdity are relatable. Sometimes we can go home again: “Atlanta” comes full circle in its final season, only richer 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The floodgates opened, but in typical American fashion, a good thing was overextended to the point of absurdity. Being a pop star once meant baring skin — now, for some artists, it’s all about emotional stripping 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z His powerful score reveals the harrowing absurdity of the situation.” Your Guide to the Met Opera’s ‘Exterminating Angel’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z He also spoke about the absurdity of letting the male members of the Senate read parts of the letter while Warren was denied. Late-night roundup: Jeff Sessions is 'the human antidote to the Voting Rights Act' 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Head for the south coast and Brighton offers Lone Twin's celebration of the triumph and absurdity of the human spirit, The Catastrophe Trilogy, at the Dome on Saturday. What to see 2011-03-25T15:37:33Z His journey can also be enjoyed as a travelogue, complete with the kinds of absurdities that happen on any long trip. Timothy Egan Makes Room for the Holy Spirit 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z “The absurdity that so much of France comes here and watches very high-class opera not far from where so many fates are decided — this is a dilemma which one can never solve,” Kratzer said. Tobias Kratzer Is Leading Opera’s Next Generation of Directors 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z For political comedy that responds to the news of the moment we can continue to expect sharp wit from Colbert, Noah and Meyers, who all offer nimble, comedic retorts to the absurdities of the day. 5 ways the 2020 election will be shaped by late night comedy 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Smart, cynical and witheringly articulate, Dennis has a restless, resentful mind that grasps the absurdity in everything. Theater Review: Kenneth Lonergan’s ‘Medieval Play’ at Signature 2012-06-08T02:05:00Z As is his way, Mr. Payne maintains an amused, ironic distance from his characters that may feel as if he’s condescending to them but is more truly an acknowledgment of life’s absurdity. Critic’s Notebook: Many Films Still in Running at Cannes for Palme d’Or 2013-05-23T22:01:08Z The point would appear to be absurdity, which now looks innocuous enough. Jiří Menzel: a daring, defiant beacon of European cinema 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z In this clip from Eugene Jarecki's documentary The House I Live In, David Simon gives his take on the absurdity of the US war on drugs. David Simon on America's war on drugs and The House I Live In 2013-03-30T23:00:00Z Mr. Holmes, host of the podcast “You Made It Weird,” is a bubbly performer with a sense for silly absurdity. Comedy in NYC This Week 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z It's by the Miranda writing team, and has that distinctive worldview in which people are basically nice, and the comedy comes from the degrees of absurdity by which that niceness is manifested. Bluestone 42; The Crash – TV review 2013-03-05T22:30:01Z It primarily aimed to expose what the authors presume to be the nonsensical absurdity of gender studies, an interdisciplinary field that attempts to understand gender identity and how these identities play out in society. Why the “Conceptual Penis” hoax was a bust: It only reveals the lack of skepticism among skeptics 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Or simply revel in the absurdity of putting the sensory experience of my snack above all else? The tangible joy of quicos, the crunchy Spanish bar snack that's worth the noise 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z The sweet absurdity continues when Season 2 arrives in its entirety on Thursday. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Lovesick’ and ‘Scissored Isle’ 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z But the second time I think he saw the absurdity of the situation. ArtsBeat: Under the Radar: 5 Questions About 'Bonanza' 2011-01-13T20:23:09Z "Go on, it'll make the surreal absurdity of our 30 years complete." Chumbawamba to split up 2012-07-10T10:09:18Z It boasts big themes: the absurdity of war and the ambition of men. War Machine: let battle commence in Netflix assault on cinema 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Each shot is a kind of sight gag, a visual and philosophical joke with absurdity in the setup and sorrow in the punchline. ‘About Endlessness’ Review: Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Ridiculously charming … Beyond at London Wonderground A man in a bear suit attempts to climb a Chinese pole, sliding away before skill finally triumphs over absurdity. Circa: Beyond – review 2013-06-06T16:03:45Z As with the original, what really pulls the absurdity into compelling shape is the small but potent amount of attention being paid to the emotional undertow. Cable girl ? Spartacus: Gods of the Arena 2011-03-22T08:00:03Z Ms. Marchant’s aim in “Cure” is to expose the absurdity of this dichotomy. Review: In ‘Cure,’ Accepting the Mind’s Role in a Body’s Health 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Nguyen is a master of the telling ironic phrase and the biting detail, and the book pulses with “Catch-22”-style absurdities. Review: ‘The Sympathizer,’ a Novel About a Soldier, Spy and Film Consultant 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z They spoke warmly about the richness of his characters and his writerly compassion for their follies and absurdities “They’re as slippery as we are as human beings.” Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh, in Love and Battle 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z He recognizes its absurdity, but writes that, “You can be a perfectly good satellite engineer while believing total nonsense about the origins of life.” Why creationists can’t be scientists 2014-02-20T20:16:00Z In true Jon Stewart fashion he pointed out the absurdity of it all. Jon Stewart offers blistering critique of U.S. response to Sony hack 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z The “Pierrot” projections emphasized the work’s severe astringency rather than its absurdity and grotesque playfulness. Music Review: Schoenberg?s ?Pierrot Lunaire? by Chicago Symphony 2012-02-26T21:30:51Z Even the script itself seems aware of its absurdities: its banishments, beheadings, kidnappings, wars and reunions. Fiasco Theater Company Rides Shakespeare to Success 2011-09-02T19:00:54Z The last line seems deliberately prosaic, the speaker's voice factual and restrained so that the reader can better register absurdity. Poem of the week: The Seventh Art in the Sanatorium by Heather Hartley 2010-11-22T13:27:00Z The idioms varied from solos to group numbers, from comic absurdity to nature sketches, from studies in spatial complexity to sustained close-contact male-female duets. Merce Cunningham Lives On in Philadelphia Museum Show 2013-01-23T23:19:41Z The cheerful, ruddy hue of the laces adds pizazz to the absurdity of the predicament portrayed. Review: Seattle sculptor Humaira Abid blends dazzling craft, potent content in 'Red' 2011-04-07T19:31:11Z So why he felt the need here to stretch credibility so far in the direction of absurdity is hard to fathom. Rewind TV: South Riding; The Model Agency; Friday Night Dinner; Silk 2011-02-27T00:05:40Z But chatter online from non-Koreans made it seem like the series' main draw was a combination of absurdity and gratuitous onscreen violence. The "Squid Game" critique is also a love letter to a unified Korea 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z “We have more drink options than ever before in the species,” he acknowledged, before pointing out the absurdity of alcoholic coffee. Jerry Seinfeld slays them in Seattle with bits on this and that 2014-02-09T00:03:15Z “I always felt that there was this absurdity, this futility to the whole place,” Ms. Almada said. Gerardo Naranjo?s ?Miss Bala? Reflects Mexican Drug War 2012-01-15T04:27:18Z “I think the heart of good comedy really lives in truth and reacting to the absurdities, hypocrisies, abuses of power in the world.” Late-night tales: how a new crop of TV hosts is reinventing an old format 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z The more instinctively we splash around in the world’s absurdity on social media, the more comfortable we become in our own disconnected inhumanity. Perspective | 21 Savage is facing deportation. Curb your memes and locate your humanity. 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Bill is somewhere in between Percy and Redmond, wielding a quietly subversive irony as his weapon against the absurdities of army life. Review: With ‘Queen and Country,’ John Boorman Continues a Tale 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z All three shows play a double game, noting either the absurdity or the sheer speculativeness of their subject matter while merrily fearmongering. Critic’s Notebook: On National Geographic Channel, No End in Sight for Doom 2012-11-30T23:21:41Z If I'm making people uncomfortable, it's basically through a hard truth or the hypocrisy or absurdity of a thing that exists in a way we might feel about things. "That's where I draw the line": David Cross has words for comics who moan about cancel culture 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z In the audiobook version, Ray Porter’s forceful narration heightens the propulsive quality of Verini’s writing, while also highlighting the general and enduring absurdities of war. ISIS Lost Mosul in 2017, but the Story Began Thousands of Years Ago 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z “It reflects that absurdity of our current times. The foolishness of this era of polarisation.” Parasite director Bong Joon-ho: 'Korea seems glamorous, but the young are in despair' 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z But the material on display goes beyond that larger message to demonstrate the complexity, inconsistency and sometimes pure absurdity of how these images have been used. Review | The American Indian museum comes of age by tackling this country’s lies 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z “I can’t act anymore,” she announces, as the movie continues, nearly imperceptibly, shuttling between the drama of pathos and comic, human absurdity. ‘The Truth’ Review: Being Catherine Deneuve 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z On the capitol grounds, things reach the point of absurdity. Perspective | Competing monuments in the cradle of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z He was born Sept 27, 1924 in Nachod in northern Czechoslovakia, and went on to write novels, such as "The Engineer of Human Souls," that humorously captured the absurdity of the totalitarian regime. Czech author Josef Skvorecky dies at 87 2012-01-03T17:56:07Z And that makes the episode all the more startling, because Louis C.K. is normally hyper-self-aware, and much of his humor lies in exposing the absurdity in his own self-absorption. The TV Watch: Louis C.K. Returns With His Brand of Dark Comedy 2014-05-04T21:45:12Z The scenes in which Crawford swoops into Page’s and Bancroft’s lives with her request are beautifully written: They recognize the absurdity of the situation but also treat Crawford’s desperation with sympathy. ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Episode 5: Taking the Stage 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z M*A*S*H, Good Morning Vietnam, Three Kings, In the Loop – the absurdities of war have always appealed to the liberals. Lights, camera, aliens … what we’ll be talking about at the movies next year 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Her portraits somehow manage to combine effervescence with earnestness, a finely tuned sense of absurdity with nostalgia, satiric wit with genuine warmth. Books of The Times: Soft Lyrics Set in Motion a Mad Crush 2011-01-31T19:02:40Z It was still a meditation on grief, but one that opened itself up enough to recognise the moments of absurdity that come with bereavement. Why Damon Lindelof's HBO Watchmen should be a triumph 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z No one expected Rock to drop any revelatory political insight tonight, but his middle-of-the-road gripping comes off as utterly pointless given the direness and absurdity of our current situation. Saturday Night Live: Alec Baldwin and Jim Carrey face off in debate parody 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z I'm talking about the inherent worthlessness of everything and the inherent absurdity of the universe in which we live. Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles: 'I'm out on the open road now' 2012-10-28T19:18:08Z But the absurdity here is really an artifact of having to draw this many lines in this much sand. When the school is the bully 2012-05-18T16:15:00Z The actors treat the subject with complete seriousness, which lends to the absurdity of the sketch. Brunch, beets and locally sourced chicken: the 10 best Portlandia sketches 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z “I also think there’s an overriding awareness of the absurdity involved that is part of the appeal.” Noticed: Seapunk, a Web Joke With Music, Has Its Moment 2012-03-02T22:23:54Z I don’t see the novel as satire, but I’m certainly drawn to comic absurdity as it manifests in the world. Writing middle-aged men in crisis: Novelists Lindsay Stern and Andrew Ridker in conversation 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Even as they grease the giant grinding cogs, the staff can expose the absurdity of corporate doctrine by delivering its soulless messaging with maximum enthusiasm. 30 Rock: is the quarantine reunion worth the wait? 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z One of the many absurdities of present political discourse is that the people who most obnoxiously declare their love for America hate most of its institutions, people and traditions. Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp can teach Jason Aldean a thing or two about small towns 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z Ecclesiastes This short work expresses, in the most beautiful language, everything important about the absurdity of the human condition. Michael Foley's top 10 absurd classics 2010-04-21T05:00:00Z "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2" - Finally - finally! - the "Twilight" franchise embraces its own innate absurdity with this gleefully over-the-top conclusion. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2012-11-15T02:16:04Z And it’s a masterwork of subtle absurdities, local peculiarities, and outrageous incongruities—it’s one of the most physically inventive comedies since the heyday of Jacques Tati. “Only God Sees Me”: Revisiting a Brilliant French Comedy Released Twenty Years Ago 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Both events are windows into the absurdity that accompanies enormous wealth. Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3 Million, Shattering Auction Highs 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Ms. Henley, too, seems to steal away from the dark matter she keeps approaching, allowing the horrors depicted to reach a level of absurdity that is almost, but not quite, comic. | 'Family Week': Beth Henley Revival Opens at Lucille Lortel 2010-05-05T02:26:00Z In an amusing touch, he’s portrayed by a human actor, Zach Kononov, not a puppet, adding a layer of absurdity to this already absurd conceit. Review: The Golden Girls, Back Again as Wisecracking Puppets 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z C.K. doesn’t just laugh at the absurdity of life — he looks straight at it with heart and grit and some of that anger thing we always find a little bit of a turn-on. Salon’s Sexiest Men of 2012 2012-11-14T13:22:00Z In their films, the land is a counterpoint to humanity’s trials, dramas and absurdities, which they often put in ensemble and anthologised form, perhaps to get a larger perspective on individual stories. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, the radical brothers who electrified Italian cinema 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z He views the use of the Hawaiian shirt as yet another attempt by far-right groups to create an “undefinable space” with “in-your-face absurdity.” What Do You Do When Extremism Comes for the Hawaiian Shirt? 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z This atmosphere of absurdity in public life may be one reason why British theatre is currently so fascinated by farce. Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z His characters, often alienated and tormented, navigated a sea of absurdity. Paul West, Writer Who Shoveled Absurdity Into His Books, Dies at 85 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z To laugh at the absurdity of race comes naturally; what feels strange is the insistence from white people that I should weep. The Performance of Racial Passing 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z One thing long overdue to be said in any discussion of shaving is that we could all do with an end to the absurdity of our facial hair culture. Down with beard culture: An argument for old-fashioned shaving 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Brodie’s beaked plague doctor get-up was a deep cut, as costumes go, but its sinister absurdity was obvious even to those who didn’t get the reference. We regret to inform you that your inflatable T. rex costume is not virus-proof 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z The Kenyan writer’s collection of short fiction tackles the absurdities, injustices and fortitude of people testing new ways against the old. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Bell, in her artist statement on her website, says she is "inspired by moments of absurdity and contradiction as well as my own visceral experiences of place." Taking the mountain for a walk: Vaughn Bell's playful 'Thinking Caps' at Jack Straw in Seattle 2010-08-09T23:37:00Z That's still a long time to be incarcerated, but it's Smith's job to capture that passage of time rather than trade on the absurdity of sentencing language. A Rusty Gun: Facing up to a life of crime by Noel 'Razor' Smith 2010-07-24T23:29:00Z She calls attention to the light absurdity of success of this scale while also inhabiting it confidently. Review: In a Big Room, Lorde Protects the Small Moments 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z The record opens with “While Rome Burns,” a folk rock exercise in observing the absurdity of American culture, with a reference to Orwell: Son Volt's Jay Farrar is "singing about the dark times" on "Union," the new protest album 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z The absurdity of the story in the largely thrill-free thriller “Contraband,” its hairpin twists and outrageous coincidences, may keep even hungry action fans away. | 'Contraband': ?Contraband,? With Mark Wahlberg - Review 2012-01-12T23:08:20Z And our whole mission statement at Vice is the absurdity of the modern condition. Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice – it's within my grasp' 2013-03-23T22:24:20Z Ottinger’s leap of absurdity is as much an expression of the tangle of confusion into which women are driven as it is an explosion of pent-up defiance at a repressively rational order. Style as Women’s Freedom: The Photographs of Ulrike Ottinger 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z As she explained: “One gets a unique life perspective after embracing the absurdity of spending an hour perfecting, say, a very stylish, hand-sewn tie for a tiny sugar-coated bunny.” Peeps Dioramas and Their Surprisingly Long Prehistory 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Every character is tagged by race, but the tag is always in scare quotes, an acknowledgment of the simultaneous absurdity and inescapability of race as a category. An almost-lost gem: 'Whatever Happened to Interracial Love' 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Mike Bartlett’s speculative drama, written in Shakespearean blank verse, has a sharp grasp of politics, the private lives of very public figures, and the logical absurdity of the British monarchy. Top 10 Plays & Musicals 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The absurdity of the pitching process is presented in brilliantly understated fashion, and the art of the sly celebrity schmooze is just dead-on. 5 great movies about making movies 2012-11-21T22:31:05Z “It’s about to get real dark, real quick,” Dee says, before the game devolves into a frenzy of absurdity and nihilism. New to ‘It’s Always Sunny’? Watch These 5 Episodes (at Your Own Risk) 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Grant, who has aged into a masterful player of villains, always begins in seriousness before veering into dumb absurdity. When Is a Comedy Special Also a Corporate Synergy Message? 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Yet absurdity inevitably flavors everything touching this tongue-in-cheek melodrama of “saved” turkeys. Perspective | Trump’s presidential turkey pardon felt like a reality show meets absurdist theater 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z It is this face that Ferrell assumes throughout his interview with himself as Lipton: courteous, slightly puzzled, charming, doing his best to answer, while inviting dark laughter at the pretentious absurdities of any such encounter. Will Ferrell: ‘Ignorance is a key part of comedy’ 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Three hours long, with a single set, chamber orchestrations, an episodic romp through historical calamity and philosophical absurdity, it is a demanding adventure. Review: A soaring, witty 'Candide' at 5th Avenue 2010-05-28T21:42:00Z I love the absurdity of it almost as much as I love Robert Langdon’s “symbology.” Roxane Gay: By the Book 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z But the choice reflects Peele's keen eye for the revealing absurdities of the world, an eye that made the satire of his first feature film, "Get Out" work so well. The Reagan era and "Us": Sins of the '80s still haunt America in Jordan Peele's horror tale 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z They acknowledge the absurdity of Spider-Man crossing wits with Jason Vorhees, and use that absurdity as a jumping-off point instead of trying to ignore it. All mixed up: Ready Player One's pop-culture crossovers are just empty nostalgia 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Grant fully commits to the shtick, casting his ego aside in favor of sheer absurdity. The top 10 movie scene-stealers of 2018, from Awkwafina to Hugh Grant 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z At other times the text simply acknowledges the art’s absurdity: A uniformed drummer boy, appearing dramatically out of place in a farmyard scene, is blithely said to have “strayed from his marching band.” Review | What’s surprising — and familiar — in Maurice Sendak’s newly discovered book 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z It was one of many attractions at Rock in Rio that combined music festival culture with celebrated Vegas absurdity. Rock in Rio is not for the Coachella crowd, but it works for Vegas 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z One is the absurdity of thinking of music as a “universal language”. Voice-overs 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z She says her comedy was born of appreciating the absurdity of her situation. Ellen DeGeneres: darling of both middle America and the coasts | Observer profile 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z It’s the horror and absurdity of life in a totalitarian state as it might have been depicted by Balzac. 2012′s best — so far 2012-07-04T14:00:00Z But if you need a response in the meantime, as you work toward full gratitude for what you’ve received and created, you might like the results you get from absurdity. Carolyn Hax: Helping a husband get off Dad’s hurtful treadmill 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The two literally save each other's lives, which may sound corny and feel-good, but Lillard shows a deft touch and finds just the right balance of absurdity and uplift. Matthew Lillard picks top 5 moviegoing memories 2012-10-04T23:43:08Z Hypocrisies, absurdities and injustices of every stripe are met with fear, anger, dismay, disbelief and an invigorating degree of sardonic humor. Resistance in clay: Ceramic artists speak out against Trump, war and more in 'We the People' 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z It is impossible to watch her, especially her scenes with the hefty Dépardieu, without a smile at all the engineered absurdity. Potiche: A French farce with feeling 2010-09-05T22:25:00Z This has been happening for a while now — the unstoppable slippage of familiar expressions into Trumpian absurdities. Analysis | ‘The buck stops with everybody’: How Trump twists cliches to do his bidding 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z But the conceit of this sketch is a little different; instead of extending to absurdity, it offers up the idea that this problem, this plague against bodies like their own, is absurd to begin with. Gallows humor in the age of #BlackLivesMatter: “Key & Peele” returns and “Why? with Hannibal Buress” premieres, not a moment too soon 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z And the show does manage to convey Mr. Keret’s casually mordant worldview, his sense that fiction so often palls before the quiet and terrible absurdities of everyday life. Review: ‘Suddenly, a Knock at the Door,’ Based on Etgar Keret’s Stories 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The crawling pieces register well — the exertion and absurdity of the actions are made clear. What Makes Pope.L’s Art Endure? (It’s Not the Famous Crawls) 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z You need that relief of just the absurdity of our world. Designer Tom Ford brings dark edge to 'Nocturnal Animals' 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The dialogue on “The Heart, She Holler” buries bathroom humor in mock-Southern prolixity, and the show’s best gags achieve a sort of poetic absurdity that is equal parts Dada and Looney Tunes. ‘The Heart, She Holler’ Is Back on Adult Swim 2013-08-30T17:10:24Z Then satirical news, like “The Daily Show” and “Full Frontal,” which aims at the absurdity of news and newsmakers. Samantha Bee and Jane Pauley Are Breaking the News 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z It's unlikely that such a fat, meaty book, full of abstruse sayings and riotous absurdity, would be published for young readers today. Summer voyages: The Hounds of the Morrigan 2013-07-23T09:13:47Z This season is simultaneously mournful and playful, full of dramatic showpieces and inspired absurdities. Review: ‘The Leftovers’ Has One More Cosmic Joke to Tell 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z But both Davies's production and Andrew Upton's new version brilliantly highlight the absurdity beneath the heroism. The White Guard | Theatre review 2010-03-24T21:30:00Z They also cut right through the tax-and-fees absurdity by listing both the base rate and added fees on the first screen. Frugal Traveler: Guide to Steering Clear of Rental Car Fees 2011-04-27T03:26:50Z The absurdity of the situation kicked my voice up an octave. My little Einstein 2013-02-13T00:00:00Z He recounts to Anne the grim absurdity of attending the funeral of one of their friends, in which the Beatles' Yesterday was played. Cannes 2012: Amour ? review 2012-05-20T14:26:48Z That happens so many times, in fact, that an element of absurdity begins to swell in the novel, inflated further by some of these characters’ improbable survival. ‘Dancing with the Tiger’: a whirling tale of art and its sometimes sordid acquisition 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z I've always seen Williams in rather a different light: as a robust social commentator and a comic writer acutely aware of the absurdity of the human predicament. Tennessee Williams at 100: funnier than ever 2011-03-28T14:22:40Z She also lets the muck of daily life in, the frustrations and absurdities of painting, of creativity itself. Turner prize 2010: Dark nights of the soul 2010-10-04T17:53:00Z The idea of writer's block, for me, is just like an absurdity. James Kelman 2012-07-29T19:00:01Z Waters attributes his lengthy career to his consistently singular sensibility and the bottomless resource of human absurdity. John Waters: why the auteur of outrage won't joke about the Manson murders 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z The show had a remarkable handle on bold, synesthetic color palettes to evoke the horror or absurdity or tranquillity of a situation. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Courage the Cowardly Dog’ 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z The whole shot quota routine throughout the episode highlights the absurdity of housing an elderly woman with dementia in prison. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: All They're Missing Is a Black Market Etsy 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z In her first novel Ms. Bakopoulos focuses on an intellectual Athens family struggling with the absurdity and terror that infiltrates their comfortable lives after a 1967 military coup. New Books From Maggie Shipstead, Harriet Lane, Mark Haddon 2012-06-27T19:55:30Z But he does seem to be letting us in on the joke of his performance, while also suggesting that Lady Bracknell is in on the joke of her society’s absurdity. London Theater Journal: En Travesti, Both Sides Now 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z In fact, naming in general in the post-9/11 era, as in the Patriot Act, the Department of Homeland Security and more has reached particular heights of absurdity. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z Many of us went along in the yearbook to the point of absurdity. Brett Kavanaugh goes to the movies 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z But she also has a way of pressing her thumb on the frailty and absurdity of being a person in the world; all the soft, secret needs and strange intimacies. One Apartment Building, Many Lives 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z He also had a strong line in absurdity. Giving a Satirist of the Third Reich the Last Laugh 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z By the time I attended the musical’s premature final performance barely a month later, the cast had leaned all the way into the absurdity. In Defense of ‘Diana,’ the Show We Didn’t Deserve 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, quite aside from the absurdity of some of the costumes, the visual side of the production was even more disturbing than its musical aspect. Seattle Opera's 'Attila' takes stage with guns blazing 2012-01-16T01:07:05Z Somehow the laughter at the absurdity enriches the depth of feeling — one of the myriad wonders of Shakespeare’s achievement. Critic’s Notebook: Stratford Shakespeare Festival, ‘Henry V’ and ‘Cymbeline’ 2012-08-19T21:11:38Z And at the same time, we were like, “Let’s lean into the absurdity of sci-fi.” The ‘Solar Opposites’ Creators Apologize for Their Clairvoyance 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Each year when I watch the Grammys, I am reminded of the absurdity of the best new artist category. 4 New Artists You Need to Hear 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Sure, Stewart and Colbert stepped down, but, at the time, we had a wide field of political comedians in place that were more than ready to tackle the absurdities of the day. 5 ways the 2020 election will be shaped by late night comedy 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z This film would be perfectly delightful if it only strove for absurdity. ‘Black Friday’ Review: Killer Sales Bring Killer Customers 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z As a writer, I understand the absurdity of trying to place restrictions on what can and can’t be written about. The Trouble With Autism in Novels 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z For me, politics are a near constant source of anxiety and stress, if occasionally a fount of great, pressure-relieving absurdity. Prime time’s antiseptic politics 2012-07-16T00:00:00Z The New Testament, says the same author, brims with other “glaring absurdities, contradictions, and falsehoods.” The Bible should be X-rated: The Good Book is loaded with sexy sin – someone tell Mike Huckabee 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z There is a rush of absurdity, but excitement as well. The 20 best Marvel films – ranked! 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z It’s about the invention and execution of concepts that shed light on the arbitrary nature of art itself, and on the absurdities of the society that produces it. ‘Never Look Away’ Review: A Lush Adventure in Sex, Politics and Painting 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Some artists argue that making light of prejudice, or turning purveyors of it into absurdities, robs hatred of power. Is It Funny for the Jews? 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z But he also said the strikes themselves are hurting the theaters - and may turn off the public, too, if unions are perceived as only protecting worker privileges, and even some absurdities. Italian opera silenced by wildcat strikes 2010-05-06T12:09:00Z Neither the full horror nor the absurdity of Nelly’s situation registers, partly because the self-conscious genre touches keep her story at a distance. Review: ‘Phoenix’ Shows Rebirth and a Ruse in Postwar Germany 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Like Ms. Reynolds and Ms. Gaynor, Ms. Collins has a keen sense of the absurdity of show business and public image-making, which she conveys in a blasé tone of mild amusement. Cabaret Review: A ?Dynasty? Diva Regales Us With Her Own Life Stories 2010-11-23T23:59:00Z I loved the characters and the absurdity of everything. Double Dork Diaries: Popstar and Skating Sensation by Rachel Renee Russell - review 2013-03-14T15:00:00Z “The Bourgeois Gentleman” and “The Forced Marriage” each steer Molière toward crepuscular absurdity. Molière, Turning 400, Can Still Surprise 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The absurdity of their lives, the wall of Champagne in Edina’s house, it’s just heaven to get back there. So You Thought ‘Brexit’ Was Disruptive. Here Comes ‘Ab Fab.’ 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z "Every morning, Hong Kong people wake up to another news headline of utter absurdity," he said. Good news: Some missing Hong Kong booksellers have appeared on TV. But there's bad news. 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z At the same time, tracks like “Power” acknowledge the absurdity of his good fortune in the midst of a time when the unemployment rate hovered at around 9.6 percent. Democracy in the 2010s, aka the decline of Kanye West-ern civilization 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Noah pounced on the absurdity of the situation. Stephen Colbert Is Missing Out on Perfectly Good Sex Scandals 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z I understand the absurdity of many aspects of the relationships with media friends, yet I have also felt all these things. John Lennon still lives among us 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z They use elementary parts and, like the cartoons, inspire amazement at the inventiveness, the absurdity of the project, and the incongruity of the result. ‘The Art of Rube Goldberg’ Review: The Machinery of Humor 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z It’s the same story told hundreds of times, each time with more explosions, loudness, and absurdity. Birdman Director Alejandro González Iñárritu: Alfred Hitchcock's Rope Is "A Terrible Film" 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z "He used humor to inspire followers, and he realized that absurdity was a way to undermine institutions that he thought were corrupt." Sacha Baron Cohen trolls Rudy Giuliani yet again, culminating a year of cinematic resistance 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z It is encouraging that something as frankly bizarre as “Cats”—which eschews all but the barest narrative, and glories in silly rhymes and an art-for-art’s-sake absurdity—appeals to so many. Memories of “Cats” 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Like “Dept. of Speculation,” Offill’s widely praised last novel, “Weather” unfolds in fragments: witty distillations of absurdity, mundanity, empathy and despair. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z One of the absurdities of this show is that potential romantic partners are actually penalized for having reasonable expectations for the pace at which lifelong commitments materialize. Commitment Issues and Fraught Hometown Visits as ‘Bachelorette’ Nears End 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z It’s another dimension of the absurdity of our puny politics. “Rubio deserved what he got”: New Hampshire’s gotcha moments, media spats and why the GOP “is built on mendacity” 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z The script also had to capture the particular absurdity of the luxury fashion world and Balenciaga’s stature in that world — something that can’t be absorbed on Wikipedia. Homer Simpson Was Made for Fashion 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Rudnick set the bar high for Academy Award absurdity with “In & Out,” but it would be a mistake to underestimate this urbane wit. All of the L.A. arts events and exhibitions to check out this fall 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z But Syms is mining the vein of absurdity, hidden in plain sight, running through freewheeling experiments in Black culture like Amiri Baraka’s poetry or Sun Ra’s jazz. The Many Lives of Martine Syms 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Yet the movie takes no account of the elaborate absurdity of the plots that are put into motion. “Ma” and “The Perfection,” Reviewed: Two Horror Movies Crassly Exploit #MeToo 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Hankins and her four fellow female dancers partook in enigmatic rituals and processionals, punctuated by unexpected absurdities and grotesqueries. NW New Works: dental hygiene, stunning solo work, and more 2013-06-10T18:40:34Z The camera and the performers capture unstated nuances of feeling, while registering the wonderful absurdity of the situation. Review: In ‘Gabriel and the Mountain,’ Recalling a Tragic Adventure 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z For me the absurdity emerges when we see his gigantic empty loft. The Emails Behind the Opera ‘Eurydice’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z “There’s so much absurdity in Los Angeles,” he said, as a woman in a BMW rolled through a stop sign while chatting on her iPhone. Noticed: A Composer (DJ Dave) Takes ?Organic? Approach to Viral Videos 2012-01-21T00:17:04Z Garcia is likable and reasonable, a Marine who accepts the corps’ absurdities, indignities and tedium in stride. A Comic Strip About the Marines: The Few, the Proud, the Bored Out of Their Minds 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z We don’t hear quite as much about the softer edges of living in what has been called an “apartheid state” — the absurdity, the insanity, the ever-present anxiety. In Jumana Manna’s Film, a Wild Plant Crosses the Political Line 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z But his apparent passiveness masks a finely attenuated eye for the absurdity of life in the city. John Wilson Reveals the Absurd Poetry of New York 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z But his greatest tone-deafness may have been insisting that whatever absurdities went down in the writers’ room ought to stay there, secret, the better to give audiences what he believes they want. We Can Handle the Truth 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z The underlying absurdity of those shows was redoubled through his lens, occasionally in the form of magical realism. The genius of Louis CK can fit in your pocket now 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z He retained an almost boyish delight in life's absurdities that endeared him to all generations, and which in turn was reflected in his work. Letter: Michael Gough obituary 2011-04-06T17:07:02Z Created in 2000, the epic veers into contradiction and absurdity and changes from night to night. ‘Gatz’ and Other Long Works Will Come to N.Y.U. Skirball 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z The mathematical absurdity still makes my mouth water. Perspective | A dozen albums for a penny? I’ve still got mine, and plenty of time to listen. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Do I feel like less of a reporter or writer for not having ventured into battle zones—for declining to bear witness to the terror and absurdity of war? A Novelist’s Wartime Education 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Of course, Charlie finds her redemptive emotional grounding in the tests of battle, which also provide enough exaggerated action and catastrophic absurdity to check off the boxes of the genre. The Superhero Movie as Secular Religion in “Aquaman,” “Bumblebee,” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z His novels resemble the pulp epics of EE "Doc" Smith rewritten by Eugène Ionesco, with logic replaced with absurdity and the rigours of science ignored. Eric Brown's science fiction choice ? reviews 2011-08-04T09:00:01Z One family member in “Knuckle” points to the absurdity of the self-perpetuating feuds and fights: “At least wars are about something.” Movies: ?Knuckle,? by Ian Palmer, Follows Irish Travelers 2011-11-27T05:03:03Z They feature him as a sad-sack artist, overly self-aware, given to self-important flourishes, which are just subtle enough to be realistic but not so much to diminish their absurdity. Funny, Kooky and Short on the Net 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z This warm and funny comedy has both sincere convictions about society and a hearty appetite for happy absurdity, physical gags and so-dumb-it’s-brilliant antics. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Camp, according to RuPaul, is when you “see the facade of life, the absurdity of life, from outside yourself.” Like ‘Mommie Dearest’? Stream These Movies for Pride Month 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Another reason writers may be drawn to anthropomorphized animals is for their absurdity. New Middle Grade Fiction From the Authors of ‘Wicked’ and ‘Knights vs. Dinosaurs’ 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Arteta “directs with a dry, Buñuelian touch, savoring small absurdities and letting the larger themes hover in the soft Orange County air,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘The Royal Wedding Live with Cord and Tish!’ and ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z The Other Guys has some hilarious moments, but they are too capricious for the film to hang together with the chiselled precision and riotous absurdity fostered by truly great comedy screenplays. The Other Guys: star stand-ins or subs-standard? 2010-09-20T15:01:00Z The result is a savage and darkly comic examination of the absurdity and double standards of war. Francis Ford Coppola: 'Apocalypse Now is not an anti-war film' 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z As the title suggests, it's a book about – among other things – control, the absurdity of feeling in command of life, and of believing it can be steered to a logical conclusion. The Lost Man Booker prize 2010-04-01T07:00:00Z His commitment to the absurdity of the modern condition is one part of that rage, he says. Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice – it's within my grasp' 2013-03-23T22:24:20Z Instead of following up the 2006 film “Clerks II” with more of that picture’s profane exuberant absurdity, he brings back Dante and Randal and Jay and Silent Bob and does some stocktaking. ‘Clerks III’ Review: From the Heart 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z "South ParQ Vaccination Special" begins with relatable absurdity and ends with an imperfect reset of the show's world that rebuilds a wall between it and our society's very real madness. The "South ParQ Vaccination Special" fails to be funny – but maybe that's the point 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z There are further flashes of comic absurdity, as when Bahari is told he’s to be shot, but that he can also have a Nescafé. Rosewater review – Jon Stewart's Iran-interrogation drama creaks at the edges 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Yet for all her serious-mindedness, Sally took a delight in absurdity. Sally Laird obituary 2010-08-10T17:19:00Z Baldwin is alert to the absurdity of being a writer from New York who is considered in some way inferior by Swiss villagers, many of whom have never travelled. Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z This statement is slightly disingenuous; amid the absurdity and pleasure in silliness, Davies slips some serious truths under the radar. Edinburgh fringe comedy round-up 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z He charted the absurdities and sadnesses of life in this land of hype and hyperbole, and he did so in incandescent prose that was as magical as it was elastic. Book Review: ‘Both Flesh and Not’ by David Foster Wallace 2012-11-15T16:55:36Z Almost everything about them — their speed, their brashness, their noodling compositions, their splashes and spray-painted scribbles, their tacky accouterments, their sense of absurdity — seems to undermine the gravitas that large-scale painting traditionally projects. With Big, Bold Art, Sarah Cain Redefines Seriousness in Painting 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z But “absurdity” and “coincidence” are categories that cease to be useful to her. ‘In the Eye of the Wild,’ a Haunting Memoir About Life After a Bear Attack 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z "We're reaching the point of absurdity when we need to appeal to the Council of State, France's most prestigious judicial institution, to rule on what is funny or not," said Mirabeau following his hearing. French court backs ban on comedy show deemed anti-Semitic 2014-01-10T19:03:35Z Anyone who's cast an eye over their recommendations from Amazon will know how easily automated associations slip into absurdity: like this author? We're all talk when it comes to buying books online 2013-02-03T00:05:18Z The movie practically satirises itself as it goes along, glossing over its own absurdity in the process. Guardians of the Galaxy first look review – a whip-smart space romp 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Despite the absurdity of the play's off-kilter relationship, Ellis' focused production becomes steadily more melancholy in tone. Terrific actors face off in "Gruesome" play 2011-02-01T03:36:14Z Part of the success of "Catch-22" is that it revealed the absurdity of military thinking, an absurdity that would, just a few years later, play out in the debacle of Vietnam. Has America turned into a spoof of itself? 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z As one person was about to murder another in cold blood for no good reason, I found myself laughing helplessly at the sheer, glorious absurdity. ‘Eileen’ review: A lonely young woman finds a friend — then trouble 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Given the many absurdities and contradictions in this story, it’s surprising that even young children would believe it. Dear Santa Claus: Why do I still believe you exist? 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Hwang riffs here on the electoral absurdity that ushered into the nation’s highest office a candidate who did not receive the majority of the votes. Review | Ever wondered how China sees America? ‘Soft Power’ offers amusing ideas. 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z This is grim material, to be sure, but layers of absurdity run through the story like fat through bacon. ‘Mr. Splitfoot’ review: A gothic tale in the woods of New York 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Yet, the social tragedy of the practice and the politics of hate is matched by the absurdity of its avatars, as in Van Der Weyden’s garbled philosophical misadventures with language. Bruno Dumont’s Vision of a Confused, Far-Right, Alienated France 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z “Made for Love” is a loopy jolt to the cortex that demands a high tolerance for absurdity. Review: In ‘Made for Love,’ She Can’t Get Him Out of Her Head 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z "I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience," he says, "And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality." Jason Bateman: 'I've got a great deal of dirt on Jenifer Aniston' 2011-07-15T23:09:00Z Australian comedy loves nothing more than to laugh at itself and the absurdity of the situations we put ourselves in – like when a trivia night is treated with the utmost strategy. Has the satire and humour of Big Little Lies been lost in translation? 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z They were also unafraid to throw themselves into audience-pleasing physical absurdities with their guests. Regis Philbin, legendary TV host, dies at 88 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z For Safinia, Chicago — and by extension Illinois — offers a larger-than-life setting that is rich with absurdities, including the fact that Illinois has no gubernatorial term limits. Kelsey Grammer, the Boss of Chicago 2011-07-01T07:00:00Z The sketches from the stars’ Comedy Central show, which frequently approached absurdity, often took on a life of their own online, generating hundreds of millions of YouTube views. Key & Peele Film Gets a Sneak Peek at SXSW 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z The “absurdity of race” was a big part of Key & Peele’s comedy. Jordan Peele on Us: ‘This is a very different movie from Get Out' 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z She joined a lawsuit in 2015 asserting that representatives for Mr. Cosby had defamed her and other women by calling stories like theirs “fantastical” and “past the point of absurdity.” #MeToo Cases’ New Legal Battleground: Defamation Lawsuits 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z It takes great skill to be so soothing, especially when herky-jerky absurdity is the basis of one’s act. The Slimmed-Down and Soothing New “Conan” 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z And audiences now seem more willing to laugh at the absurdity of its depiction of an age in which every species of creature is engaged in bewildering, internecine warfare. The Prophecies of Beckett and Caryl Churchill Haunt London’s Stages 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z “Which of These Would You Like?” portrays the absurdity and horror of incarceration. Short Story Collections for an Ever-Changing World 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z There is a world where all absurdities are true. Out of Prison but Still Not Free 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Such is the absurdity of the ZAZ world, which plays its comedy with deadpan seriousness, and why "Airplane!" is so uproarious. "When stupidity is elevated": "Airplane!" filmmakers reveal the secrets to their deadpan success 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Its combination of fantasy, absurdity, and hints of darker humor had the potential to pull in an older crowd of cartoon enthusiasts and hipsters — less certain was if this mix would appeal to kids. The Weird World of Adventure Time Comes Full Circle 2013-03-29T11:00:44Z Then there's an anecdote about her encounter with a paparazzo, whose sanctimony Long sends up, à la Stewart Lee, by drawing it out until its absurdity is ruthlessly exposed. Long time coming 2010-08-26T17:29:00Z “Sex and Consequences,” which alternates live performance with shorts both old and new, is about genetic inheritance and social evolution, filtered through absurdity and abetted by playful design. Socially Distant, Except for the Dogs, Sheep and Chickens 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z What is surprising is that the laughs don’t come just from the absurdity or mind-bending plot, as they would if this show was made by Adult Swim. Time Traveling Bong: stoner comedy is smarter than it needs to be 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z A trio of pale, nerdy guys, they intuitively understand the universal appeal, and also the implicit absurdity, of hip-hop-inspired sexual swagger. Review: Andy Samberg Spoofs Pop Stars Without Spite. And That’s 4 Real. 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z This collective response to atrocities like Paris and San Bernardino has become so reflexive within our Western culture that we don’t even question its fundamental absurdity. Islamophobia only helps our enemies — it does nothing to stop extremist violence 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z Every characteristic that women often criticize in themselves — too much apologizing, always wanting to help, being a doormat — is heightened to the edge of absurdity. Miranda July sheds her pixie image with novel 'The First Bad Man' 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The weakest parts of the book are when she tries to wring meaning from absurdity, painting her generation or her country with wide strokes. Pretending to Play the Violin 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Immediately you wonder "Which ones?" — until the absurdity of the question just as suddenly intervenes. Brian Weil's work focuses on a 'World' few ever see 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z The Gogol story is a bizarre tale of a petty bureaucrat who is swept along in the officious chaos, class conflicts and absurdity of St. Petersburg society. ?The Nose,? and the Eye and the Ear, at Metropolitan Opera 2010-03-11T19:52:00Z “That’s where the thesis of our absurdity would come from, it’s us amplifying how we feel in that moment.” 'Horrifyingly absurd': how did millennial comedy get so surreal? 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Fowler is in a fundamental way an outsider who must learn how the organization works—she must learn the Army’s rules, tricks, absurdities, and hazing rituals, all developed and perpetuated by men. A Novelist’s Wartime Education 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z He is a Morris-like utopian in this sense, though never forgetting the vague absurdity of that position. Jeremy Deller's visions of England 2013-06-01T22:00:01Z Even the 2017 superhero film “Wonder Woman,” which was primarily set during World War I, implicitly acknowledged the absurdity of that conflict when the protagonist confronted the Greek god of war Ares. "1917" has one major flaw - it's irresponsibly nationalistic 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z The poem “supply and demand” shines a light on the absurdity of merely thinking about outrageous injustice: Political Poetry Is Hot Again. The Poet Laureate Explores Why, and How. 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Almost everything that is disappointing about well-made formula crime drama was contained in the opener for the latest instalment of Silent Witness, which is serially wrong-sided by absurdity. Rewind TV: Zen; Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent; Silent Witness ? TV review 2011-01-09T00:05:37Z We drank and laughed like mad men at the absurdity. Road trip to Powder Keg City: The collapse of Seattle's autonomous zone 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z With input from Mr. Hemsworth, “Thor: Ragnarok” became less self-serious and much more comedic, leaning into the absurdity of the main character, a beefcake god who carries a magic hammer and travels by rainbow. ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Hits Theaters With a Thunderclap 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z They claim it is all a lie, a devious deception, an absurdity. Needed: Global moment of Doh! 2012-08-08T00:00:00Z This artfully layered play uses meta-theatrical monologues, strategic colorblind casting and an avalanche of cotton balls to explore the crippling absurdity of conventional ideas of race, then and now. 10 Works Over 5 Years by Black Playwrights. All Intended to Unnerve. 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z I’m interested in the real personalities you get, but also the absurdity of the situations they find themselves in.” ArtsBeat: HBO Casts Its Vote for Julia Louis-Dreyfus in 'Veep' 2011-04-18T19:32:55Z The screwball absurdity of the spot — and an accompanying dance tutorial, in which the Lad paid tribute to his late “mummy” — seemed to scratch a specific itch. The Little Lad? Berries and Cream? Call It Performance Art. 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z What most impressed, perhaps, was Ferris’s keen eye for the many textures of modern American absurdity and his gift for propulsive, entertaining prose. Joshua Ferris’s Ode to the Hapless American Everyman 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z “I’m on a schedule where I’m working out with the workout moms. It’s so horrible,” the director of the new movie “Inherent Vice” says, smiling at the absurdity. ‘Inherent Vice’ is complex and subversive. Paul Thomas Anderson is pretty normal. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z And it’s been Ellis’s life’s work to make us confront the absurdity of that world in all its grimness, comedy and plastic beauty. Bret Easton Ellis Has Calmed Down. He Thinks You Should, Too. 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z There really is no limit to the absurdity of the flavors. A rundown of the most absurdist candy cane flavors 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Colbert, through his bloviating conservative character “Stephen Colbert”, was exposing the absurdity of claiming to help a minority group while simultaneously insulting them. Why #FireColbert played out differently than #CancelColbert 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Baldessari was a brilliant Californian who saw the absurdity in almost everything, including the conceptual strategies he championed. John Baldessari: An Artist in a Class by Himself 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Stewart plays a fake anchor, tirelessly skewering the absurdities of US politics while Oliver plays his fake Senior British Correspondent, a walking compendium of British cliches. An Englishman in New York 2011-07-23T23:04:11Z The CIA, believing this absurdity, sends in a lovely female agent to shadow Hanks. Scarecrow Video recommendations for "Cars 2" 2011-06-23T13:07:17Z The changing sequence of Balanchine’s corps-and-principals constructions does the heart good, as does the ancient-and-modern combination of steps and the judicious mixture of grace, formality, absurdity and stunning exuberance. Stars’ Variety Shines in City Ballet Balanchine Program 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Dotting the gallery are sculptures of the king and future queen, guards and banquet food; their purposeful crudeness underlines the messy absurdity of the royal affair. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z It's a book full of humor, heartbreaking sweetness and absurdities that also successfully triggers an existential crisis and fear for our plugged-in society. Recommended Reading: Gary Shteyngart's 'Super Sad True Love Story' 2011-01-19T20:47:08Z Beradt encountered several dreams about thought control, some of which anticipated the bureaucratic absurdities used by the Nazis to terrorize citizens. How Dreams Change Under Authoritarianism 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Instead it was Colbert who managed to reveal to the public the absurdity of the Cain campaign. Enough with “the Colbert Defense”: Why criminals, bigots and jerks cry “satire!” when exposed 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z Over the past year, as our political culture has grown more coarse and corrupt, I’ve felt different things: sometimes, anger; often, bitter resignation; and occasionally, a bemused sense of pure absurdity. Perspective | What did the men with Donald Trump do when he spoke of ‘shithole countries’? 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Yeah, because that’s another absurdity of our supposedly beloved summer tradition of enjoying live music in the great outdoors. Stop pretending you’re having fun at this outdoor concert 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z But Mr. Carsen fills it with rowdy activity, an attempt, it would seem, to reveal the absurdities of aristocratic pretense. Review: Renée Fleming’s Poignant Farewell to ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ at the Met 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z “The quick change from frivolous to grim and back again represents one of the movie’s key insights about war and its absurdity,” he says. ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'M*A*S*H' 2011-08-09T13:33:22Z “Broad City” often stretches ordinary female and urban experiences to the point of absurdity. The Secret Weapons of ‘Broad City’ Make Fine Art From Crude Humor 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Scott Walker and the absurdity of a bankrupt and declining country embroiled in three overseas wars at once. The subversive legacy of comic Bill Hicks 2011-04-05T22:01:00Z You overlook this and other absurdities because Bane is an entertaining villain. Q: What do Skyfall, The Dark Knight Rises and a hamburger have in common? A: See below 2012-12-09T19:59:01Z His own taste, which became official Nazi taste, was for kitsch, Aryanized nudes in a heroic, neoclassical vein he termed — with no sense of its absurdity — “Greco-Nordic.” Art in the midst of catastrophe — and renewal 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z For all its absurdities, including a Puck-like goblin who provides a strangely gratuitous love potion, the play has an eccentric charm. St John's Night – review 2012-07-15T17:29:01Z His skill at shifting gears midsentence, flinging the reader from absurdity to reality and back, conjures the sublime early writing of Woody Allen. A Toddler Detective, Pirate Parents and Other Witty Treats in Simon Rich’s ‘New Teeth’ 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z Amid its absurdity and black humor, it was a sharp commentary on the senselessness of war, and on the obliviousness of those charged with prosecuting it. What “M*A*S*H” Taught Us 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z “I think Americans will understand feeling the absurdity of this great variety of people from all over united under one flag,” said Dodson. New Translations Explore Brazil’s ‘Endless and Unfinished’ Character 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The modern puppet-fetish also reaches the point of absurdity with a capering Fool who lugs around a marionette supposedly embodying the king's conscience. Henry VIII 2010-05-25T20:29:00Z I’m not sure the public is better served by 10-second plugs of these worthy causes than by hearty escapist chuckles at the absurdity of current celebrity culture. Farewell, Mani Cam. On the Red Carpet, Things Turn Serious. 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Over and over, she replays this scene, sometimes emphasizing absurdity, other times pathos. Make Way for the Carnal Clowns of Stand-Up 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z They wanted grandiosity, but they knew that there was some absurdity involved. Tania Vartan Creates Coats from Furnishing Fabrics 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z There are also some less aggressive, quite amusing squibs of absurdity. Review: ‘The Happytime Murders’ Has Puppets as Nasty as the Rest of Us 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z In fact, sitcoms, in the last decade, have taken a hard turn toward absurdity: “30 Rock” and “Community” owe more to the spirit of “S.N.L.” and “The Simpsons” than they do to “Friends” or “Cheers.” Riff: ?The Hangover? and the Age of the Jokeless Comedy 2011-05-28T03:33:02Z “This is an absurdity!” the Sea Snake said in response to Viserys’s big reveal, and at first he seemed to have a point. ‘House of the Dragon,’ Season 1, Episode 2: A Happy Announcement 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z Incidentally, this act was accompanied by a diary entry in which Goebbels revealed the sheer absurdity of his antisemitic beliefs: The Complex History Behind a Vienna Philharmonic Tradition 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z The extremes and the exaggerations, the absurdities and the operatic stylizations of Jacquot’s melodramatic vision melt into their personae. Two French Melodramas: “3 Hearts” and “Villa Amalia” 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Sometimes it’s more fun, at least on “The Simpsons,” to take a point of view that we don’t agree with and point out the absurdities of it. From ‘The Simpsons’ to ‘Disenchantment’ 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z There's also a Wag skit, which – unusually – avoids the cliches, and exaggerates to absurdity these women's total acquiescence to their partners' lives and careers. Katy Brand 2010-04-23T21:00:00Z Everything needs to be there; each element amplifies the pain and absurdity of everything else. Have personal essays gotten too personal? 2013-03-17T17:00:00Z The overall effect is self-conscious, giddy and sometimes funny in its absurdity. Theater Review: ‘Seagull (Thinking of You),’ at New Ohio Theater 2013-01-16T22:35:06Z The sequel leans into this to the point of absurdity; by the end it implies that nearly everyone in New York City is somehow tied into the criminal netherworld and its labyrinthine codes of conduct. John Wick: Chapter 2 is a shameful example of Hollywood gun pornography 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z It was full of absurdities, but ones that made me laugh as well as cry. Lenin, mum and me – my communist childhood 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z At home, we weren’t chuckling or shrugging at the absurdity of all. Perspective | The first debate was one of the worst moments in television history 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z It’s hard for our show to compete with the screeching absurdity of what’s happening in our actual office. Claire Danes Could Really Use a Nap 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Tree lets his guard down, even cracks a few jokes about the absurdity of his situation. How a Novel Could Help Rehabilitate Tiger Woods' Image 2011-08-15T21:10:00Z He zipped among topics like a hummingbird, hovering on a subject just long enough to dip into its absurdity or poignancy before another more appealing option presented itself. How Noel Fielding Went From a Hedonist to a Host of ‘The Great British Baking Show’ 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z It was often very funny – bubbling with joyful absurdity – but the humour prickled at your conscience. Best theatre of 2012, No 7: Ganesh versus the Third Reich 2012-12-13T16:02:59Z Finally - finally! - the "Twilight" franchise embraces its own innate absurdity with the gleefully over-the-top conclusion, "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2." Review: `The Twilight Saga' ends with real bite 2012-11-14T17:42:12Z When women write funny, sometimes the humor is quiet, mixing rhythms of daily work with life’s absurdities. Review | Katherine Heiny’s ‘Early Morning Riser’ may be the funniest novel of the year 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z But what keeps “Separation Anxiety” from spinning off into some surreal parallel universe of silliness is Zigman’s attention to the ordinary absurdities of middle-class life. Review | Laura Zigman’s ‘Separation Anxiety’ tackles middle-aged loneliness with a perfect mix of grief and humor 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z With the exception of Henry Kissinger, all the historic players in the drama are treated seriously and given a dignity that allows for plenty of humor and absurdity. Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z The world is so flooded with images that making sense of what’s already there can feel paralyzing; adding something new can seem like the very definition of absurdity. ‘No Bears’ Review: A Film That Critiques Itself 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z It’s bracing, awful stuff, so unaware of its absurdity that it is completely appealing. Garth Brooks Is Back With a New Album, ‘Man Against Machine’ 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z Their points of confluence — the deaths of family members, improbable escapes, the hardship of life in ghettos and camps — underscore the horror and, at times, the grim absurdity of surviving extermination. ‘Shoah: Four Sisters’ Review: Harrowing Tales of Survival in the Holocaust 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z His career reached its peak of absurdity in 1974 when he was called upon to accept the National Book Award on behalf of the reclusive author Thomas Pynchon for the novel “Gravity’s Rainbow.” Irwin Corey, comic who styled himself the World’s Foremost Authority, dies at 102 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z The script captures both the fear and the absurdity of being detained without charge. Art crashes into authority in play about Ai Weiwei 2013-04-16T12:01:09Z In its way, Game of Thrones exemplifies a principle of the best title sequences: Map the world of the show, without delving too far into absurdity. Transparent to Game of Thrones: how TV perfected the title sequence 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z The novel largely focuses on this time in California, with Broder’s sharp eye focused first on the absurdity of Los Angeles consumerism, then moving closer into Lucy’s own actions and thoughts. Review | Can a woman find true love with a handsome fish? 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The show is like a demented roller coaster, lurching from tenderness to absurdity to crassness. Times Critics Share Last-Chance TV Picks 2013-12-26T21:26:10Z Recently the absurdity of venture capital has been dwarfed by the spectacle of cryptocurrency, and now crypto tales are being churned into content even faster than their predecessors. Hollywood Bets Big on the Bad Entrepreneur 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Probably the best way to experience “Warcraft,” a generally amusing and sometimes visually arresting absurdity, is stoned. Review: In ‘Warcraft,’ Orcs of a Different Domain, Fighting With Heart 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Beckett’s deeply lined visage, surmounted by a sweep of silver hair, is an emblem of late modernism, a quietly charismatic mask of weary resolve in the face of existential absurdity. Review: ‘Notfilm’ Tells How Beckett and Keaton Collaborated 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z It was as though jumping the shark – the moment at which a long-running TV series collapses into absurdity – had been turned into a marathon sport. Rewind TV: Shameless; Episodes; Kidnap and Ransom; Human Planet ? review 2011-01-16T00:05:49Z Political statements delivered in the midst of a professional football game, no matter how poignant, are inevitably tinged with some degree of absurdity. Lady Gaga’s All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Like everyone else, Hastings is operating in a slaughterhouse, and the grotesque absurdity of the fatalistic setting never abates. Review | There will be blood in the STC’s gross-out ‘Richard the Third’ 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z “I think their work is very realistic in representing the absurdity of black life,” says Francis. From Beyoncé to Sorry to Bother You: the new age of Afro-surrealism 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The optimist views it as innocent, tragicomic, an excess of effort Saying that a person is pretentious can be a way of calling out the trappings and absurdities of power. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Best of all, Radha Blank, making her feature debut, is a brilliant filmmaker, with an eye for the absurdities of New York theater and for the glorious theater of the city itself. Best Movies of 2020 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z Dada performances offered an explosion of poetry, music and political theater — poetry shorn of intelligible words, music devoid of melodies and statements in which the message was cannibalized by the absurdity of the language. Dada Was Born 100 Years Ago. So What? 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Which is the only visual preposterous enough to evoke the absurdity of it all. Perspective | Ivanka Trump is acting as if everything is normal 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z It provides no distance, no humor—however sardonic or bitter—to account for the near-impossible distance between trauma and retribution, the absurdity of expecting any meaningful redress. “Ma” and “The Perfection,” Reviewed: Two Horror Movies Crassly Exploit #MeToo 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Given the context of this column, and the absurdity of the foods that occupy it, this is unsurprising. Lupin: a versatile and filling if ultimately tasteless legume 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z The relationships depicted in their lyrics often devolve into poisonous volatility and violence, emotional or otherwise, that, despite their absurdity, is familiar. Summer Walker’s Sex-Positive R. & B. 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Ali, more or less the straight man in the double act, approaches every moment with a razor-fine wit, a lively awareness of the absurdity of the situation that may not belong to the character alone. ‘Green Book’ Review: A Road Trip Through a Land of Racial Clichés 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z We thought if we just concentrate on the voice, it makes the absurdity of the questions even more apparent. Working class hero: Ken Loach’s “I, Daniel Blake” is a must-see in the era of Brexit and Donald Trump 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Deprived temporarily of his freedom, Amar contemplates what he knows and has failed to learn, the violence of other places, the constant of war, the absurdity of his situation. Review | A former lover of Philip Roth has published a novel about a writer like Philip Roth 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z "For all his absurdity, his books remain highly readable," decided Philip Hensher in the Spectator. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z It doesn't hurt that Anderson, 42, who has publicly referred to her surgically enhanced breasts as "Pancho and Lefty," embraces her own absurdity. 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z As the jihadists bumble obliviously through the labyrinth of the sand-bleached city, the absurdity of terror in practice soon becomes apparent. A Movie That Dares to Humanize Jihadists 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The absurdity of the ageing process – becoming old, being perceived as old – is gleefully paraded across the stage here, and there's nothing dull about it. Judith Lucy – review 2012-11-27T17:40:38Z Belber said by email that Stewart brought a "mischievousness, rollicking wit, pathos" and "an absolute delight in the absurdity of life" to the role of Tobi. Patrick Stewart's new roles more down to Earth than sci-fi work 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z His narrator is at least intermittently aware of his precarious place and the absurdity of his quest. He’s a Lifer at Angola. He’s Black. Was He Falsely Convicted? 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z His staging, in which no emotion is ever forced, is funny only in the way that life can be: dark humor in the face of absurdity, joy at a harmless misunderstanding. America’s Most Interesting Opera Destination? The Midwest 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Seattle audiences got a glimpse of "Land," in all its minimalist absurdity, at On the Boards' 2010 Northwest New Works Festival. The stop-start career of Seattle choreographer Mark Haim 2012-03-21T21:35:03Z His more fully developed stories have a sense of the absurdities — and sadnesses — of contemporary American life reminiscent of George Saunders’s short fiction. Books of The Times: B. J. Novak’s Story Collection: ‘One More Thing’ 2014-01-27T21:38:31Z "In the early going, the audience understands the absurdity of the whole situation — a middle-aged man willing himself to become a drug king," he says. AMC's Breaking Bad: Elements of Style 2011-07-14T09:15:00Z Even though there is an inherent absurdity to the excess on display, they seem less interested in the humor of horror. ‘Evil Dead Rise’ Review: Mommy Issues 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z If Succession is a mirror, then it’s one tilted a couple of degrees, refracting our world just enough to cut off buzzworthy names while giving space to the absurdity of our current moment. Filthy rich: why the awful antics of Succession are so addictive 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z It was like a tour through the uniform clichés of FiDi filtered through a black mirror lens, so elegance cozied up with absurdity in pretty much equal measure. Balenciaga Occupies Wall Street 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z This concept reaches absurdity in Act 3, set in the wreckage of a modern movie theater, which happens to be playing a film about Attila. 'Nixon' headlines SF Opera's summer season 2012-06-15T18:03:09Z That’s part of why these memes have been so wildly popular — they all poke fun at the absurdity of this romantic fantasy, while at the same time reveling in it. Manny Pacquiao loses his crown 2012-05-16T18:50:00Z And so when the inevitable bloodbath happens — and oh yes, it does happen — it's vast and horrifying but with some giddy glimmers of absurdity sprinkled throughout. 'Piranha 3D': Run, don't walk, to see this fun horror flick 2010-08-19T22:27:00Z Now, though, the pre-satirized absurdities of the Trump era call into question the potency of this genre. Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Usually it's the wistful absurdity of Andrew Aguecheek's "I was adored once" that brings a plaintive note into the clash of tankards. Twelfth Night; Tiger Country; The Painter ? review 2011-01-23T00:06:05Z With an upbeat style and a razor-sharp perspective on life’s absurdities, he’s an incredibly fun, compelling comic who’s always worth seeing perform live. Comedy Listings for June 26-July2 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Kelly Kapoor, meanwhile, evolved into a breakout character: selfish, manipulative, and superficial to the point of absurdity. Mindy Kaling: 'My biggest challenge is being frequently underestimated' 2013-03-22T14:00:00Z Fortunately, Dinah, who faces even more hardship here than in the book, remains dynamic enough to infuse the ancient world with modern spirit without tipping into absurdity. Lifetime's 'The Red Tent' kept standing by leading ladies 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z But his ability to laugh at himself and the absurdity of some situations helps create a bond with the reader. ‘Swingland’ Offers Peek Into Kinky Sex Underworld 2013-10-17T14:36:25Z Hanks as the oddball David Pumpkins in a haunted house worked for fans of absurdity and deliberate nonsensicalness. SNL: Hanks makes American dads great again as Baldwin’s Trump tics on 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z A savage Hollywood takedown that riles the studio system for its absurdity, then vilifies those obsessed with fame. John Cusack: ‘Hollywood is a whorehouse and people go mad’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z The show remains a fascinating tonal roller coaster, with deranged absurdities packed into scenes that have real pathos. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Panahi is a reasonable director; he depicts the exaggerations and absurdities of the regime and the contortions of behavior in response to rules and laws that are silly, contrary to reason. Jafar Panahi’s Remarkable “Taxi” 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z I guess the compactness of it pleased people and also the absurdity of the collision — Old English heroic poem meets tiny aspirin tablets.” ArtsBeat: 'Little Dorito' and More: Suggestions for Literary Product Placement 2012-06-11T20:00:59Z To compound the apparent absurdity, the shoal’s inclusion on Chinese maps seems the result of a mistake by Chinese cartographers in the 1930s, who thought it was a land feature. Waves of trouble 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z It's a brilliant comment on high-pressure corporate culture, the absurdity of the workplace and the base instincts of territorial company men. One of Coachella's hippest art installations happens to have hippos 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z I’m eager to be dazzled and amused by elements of surrealism and absurdity. ‘How to Tell Toledo From the Night Sky,’ by Lydia Netzer But he is also personally hurting, and he lets that affect the arch humor and absurdity he’s built his career on. Review | After nine books, what more could David Sedaris have to say? A great deal. 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z The results, while unpredictable, are rich and strange in their delivery: absurdity and wit, yes, but also great drama and beauty. The Week Ahead: Feb. 20 ? 26 2011-02-17T15:17:47Z But at its best, “The Wanted 18” follows a worthy tradition of highlighting absurdities that arise during conflict: here, Israelis threatened by livestock and Palestinians creating some blunders of their own. Review: In ‘The Wanted 18,’ Palestinians Hide Cows From Israeli Forces 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z With its unbalanced nouns in apposition, the film’s title hints at the absurdity of the way human beings think. Screening Room: “Bacon & God’s Wrath” 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z She unearths what’s wise in absurdity and shows how something that might appear banal can suddenly become luminous. But Is It Art? In the Case of ‘Doggie Hamlet,’ Yes 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Later when she tells a group of friends about the incident, they respond as close friends would – which is to say, they laugh at the absurdity of the moment, not at Abby. “Work in Progress” tackles queer identity comedy nearly 30 years after “It’s Pat” 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Perhaps this is why we see Liz laughing so hysterically at the end of the video, at the sheer absurdity of juxtaposition. Old music: Cocteau Twins – Crushed 2013-03-21T07:00:00Z They offer narratives of belief, and novelistic narratives make real the ambiguity, the contradiction, the intermittence, even the absurdity and comic irrationality of our intellectual lives. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z I remember finding the absurdity of it outrageous even for him. Plot Twist! Why 2004 Was a Surprising Year for Movies 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Lindsay-Abaire has learned to relish the absurdity of those productions. You Wrote the Play. Can You Let It Go? 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z She took the title of the current show from a long-running series by Mr. Durham highlighting the absurdity of any nation’s or culture’s claims of superiority. The Artist Jimmie Durham: A Long Time Gone, but Welcomed Back 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z On the right-wing side, the presence of the sharks is seen as a classic example of the folly of liberal do-gooding and the boomerang absurdities of “reform.” The Summer of Shark Politics on Cape Cod 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z “An absurdity such as an anachronism can help illuminate who we’ve become, what has changed, and what has remained the same,” Folds wrote in the assignment memo. “I don’t think as artists we’re supposed to have a very specific mission. . . . We’re supposed to go towards what is meaningless”: Songwriter Ben Folds judges Nat Geo photo competition 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Letterman was known for his dry absurdity but also for his moments of earnestness. Foo Fighters play David Letterman's favorite song, 'Everlong,' for farewell 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z From absurdity to brutality, but it doesn’t sound clashing to me. Du Yun: A Composer’s 10 Cultural Influences 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z I was almost speechless, more because of the complete lack of any sense of insight into the absurdity of her statement than in the substance of her claims. Review was right to criticise BBC's science coverage 2011-07-21T17:06:24Z But he also shoots straight when faced with the absurdities of their theater of brutality. Held Hostage in Syria, a Reporter Tells What It Took to Survive 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z The play’s contrasting textures and bizarreries — a sleeping potion! a headless corpse! — seem to appeal to directors, who often play up the absurdity with abandon. Critic’s Notebook: Stratford Shakespeare Festival, ‘Henry V’ and ‘Cymbeline’ 2012-08-19T21:11:38Z “Robin Hood” just strobes between boredom and absurdity so fast that it starts constantly providing both at once. “Robin Hood” review: Revisionist history has never been dumber or more boring 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z And the absurdity of the everyday in our lives — he uses pedestrian situations in very disturbing or revealing ways.” Dance: David Neumann?s All-American Meal 2010-02-26T15:44:00Z And maybe that’s one more reason why so many sketches spiral off into absurdity, or total annihilation. How to best end a comedy sketch? It’s hard to go wrong with gruesome death. 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z He reminds us of the extent to which we blind ourselves to the utter absurdity of so-called ordinary life. Animal Magic: A Brother's Story by Andrew Barrow ? review 2011-02-26T00:07:33Z She’s bolder, more sure of herself, than you are, and she has a genius for writing in the language of vulgar misogyny as she speaks to its absurdity. Patricia Lockwood's Crowd-Pleasing Poetry 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z He decides that they would most likely find humans as foolish as he does: “If cats could understand the human search for meaning they would purr with delight at its absurdity.” Want the Good Life? This Philosopher Suggests Learning From Cats 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z We begin with roast seafood with extra absurdity. Nigella Kitchen, Trinny and Susannah: Boom to Bust and My School Prom 2010-10-01T07:21:00Z She is also a classic example of the absurdity of people with experience and capacity at the highest level not having big political jobs after retirement from office. Tony Blair's A Journey: Andrew Rawnsley's review 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z The hearings gave us both the tragedy of Jan. 6 and the absurdity, the terror and the irony, the blood and the ketchup. The Jan. 6 Hearings Did a Great Service, by Making Great TV 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z It’s a text filled with what I now understand as a fusion of absurdity and truth. ArtsBeat: A Sad and Remarkable Life: Breanne Fahs Talks About ‘Valerie Solanas’ 2014-04-23T21:34:55Z “Jane the Virgin” possesses a self-awareness that makes for a refreshing take on the soap opera, even as the show leans into the genre’s absurdity. The unexpected miracle of “Jane the Virgin”: Her surprisingly realistic television pregnancy 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z This one may not make much sense, but — like a demented old film noir or a Shonda Rhimes show at its crazed best — “Girl” doesn’t falter in its absurdity or commitment to its own seriousness. Review: In ‘The Girl on the Train,’ a Boozy Emily Blunt Never Winks 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Reading it provided a sorely needed antidote to the daily doses of negativity, absurdity and mendacity of Trump. Two Cities, Two Countries, Common Ground 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z That Lucky talks — lovingly, directly and frequently about bacon — is a bit of absurdity you easily accept within the conventions of puppet drama. Three Dramas Explore the Margins of the Digital Form 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z The 38-year veteran of stand-up has always relied on observational humor and the absurdity of social awkwardness to get laughs. Jerry Seinfeld slays them in Seattle with bits on this and that 2014-02-09T00:03:15Z Once again, we come to feel the mix of agony and absurdity suffered by soldiers caught between the tectonic plates of history. Review | Kevin Powers’s first novel exposed the horrors of the Iraq War. Now he takes on the Civil War. 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z “The absurdity of modern life is worth laughing at,” he said, “because what else are we going to do?” A Writer’s Deathbed Portrait of Francis Bacon 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The textbook sentimentalism of these pieces — tear-producing and personally experiential — smooths the absurdity of the aesthetic and political pairings. Fox’s populist dance spectacle 2012-09-18T18:08:00Z It talks about his sense of betrayal, loss of freedom and the absurdity of the whole thing. Music of Remembrance honors Hans G?l 2011-11-02T21:03:04Z “Even the most anodyne interaction teeters on the edge of absurdity,” Amanda Hess wrote in Watching. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘All-Star Flip’ and ‘Terrace House’ 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The beauty of DiCamillo’s text is that it is equal parts somber and silly, its undercurrent of grief balanced by fantastical absurdities. ‘The Magician’s Elephant’ Review: The Promise of a Pachyderm 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z It’s a lot of me in there, so for 1,500 people to accept my character in the show and my style of absurdity and comedy and improv is extremely cathartic and emotional. Alex Brightman Lays ‘Beetlejuice’ to Rest 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z And somewhere along the way, the second Trip movie becomes a reflective, curiously powerful meditation on life, death, and all the absurdity therein. The Best Movies That Didn't Get Nominated for Any Oscars This Year 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z But the puppets, designed by Mr. Waage, have such distinctive personalities that the plot’s absurdities rarely intrude on our enjoyment. Review: ‘Made in China,’ With Romance, Polemics and Puppets 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z It was a role that showed off Williams’s talents – the zaniness, the dressing up, the bizarrely transparent absurdity, combined with his big-hearted, faintly lachrymose vulnerability and sentimental concern for children. Robin Williams remembered: "What a remarkable performer. This is a brutal shock" 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Humor is only found when you can see the absurdity of life instead of feeling hijacked by it. Perspective | How do we help our tweens and teens with the return to school? 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Tuminas's production lays the absurdity on with a trowel, but in doing so absolutely suggests that all these isolated individuals are suffering from one infection. People; Uncle Vanya; Uncle Vanya – review 2012-11-11T00:06:04Z My personal favorite, probably for its absurdity, was the Gin & Tonicsicle. Frozen pops are for kids — until you grow up and start spiking them, that is 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z The band’s basic formula — ringing anthems, earnest-but-vague lyrics — was inflated to the point of absurdity. Coldplay’s ‘Ghost Stories’: This is what a conscious uncoupling sounds like Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The New York Times that the movie is “serious, beautiful, wise to the absurdity of life and in the embrace of a piercing longing.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind’ and ‘The Widow’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z The absurdities of contemporary life occupied the Beatles, too. ‘Pepperland’ is an ecstatic and provocative Beatles tribute — and like no land you’ve been to before 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Such swings between absurdity and horror turned “Twin Peaks” into an instant hit for ABC in an otherwise milquetoast prime-time landscape. How ‘Twin Peaks’ Got Lost, and Found Its Way Back 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z He wanted to highlight the absurdity of certain repetitive tasks. Ivanka and her tower of crumbs 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z She compares the “aggressive absurdity” of some critical approaches with those of old-fashioned scholars such as Fitzgerald specialist Matthew J. Bruccoli: “They did more than just adopt theoretical positions toward literature; they actually knew things.” ‘So We Read On: How “The Great Gatsby” Came to Be,’ by Maureen Corrigan Perhaps the most profound aspect of “Transfigured” is its insistence that viewers experience the absurdity of our sincerely held expectation of absolution through complicity. Perspective | A Black Jesus is at the center of a ‘Passion’ that transfigures the listener 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z He talks of the absurdity of religion and lets an inner blogger deliver a running commentary of the gig. How an angry comic who had a coke habit became the Barbara Walters of podcasts 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z On the upside, such areas have space for eccentrics and absurdity. Tragic, funny and weird: Donald Glover's Atlanta is a new high for TV comedy 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Both the absurdities of it and the intricacies of female pleasure. Emma Thompson and the Challenge of Baring All Onscreen at 63 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Nowhere, she answers, hammering home the ghoulish absurdity in this escalating violence. In 2023, nobody knows how to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2013, Anthony Bourdain did 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z We learned about the absurdities of surviving on £3.24 a day, and the iniquities of unpaid caring. Rewind TV: 7/7: One Day in London; Blackout; When I Get Older; Imagine: Graceland – review 2012-07-07T23:05:40Z The great thing about this team is, there's an element of absurdity to the idea of the Avengers, and there always was. 'Avengers' boss Whedon mines mirth in Marvel idols 2012-04-30T13:53:47Z Directed by Eva Steinmetz, “The Appointment” wades into the national abortion debate with a well-honed sense of absurdity, and firmly takes the side of abortion rights. The Week in Arts: ‘The Appointment,’ Robert Motherwell and Amanda Palmer 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z On cue, absurdity erupts when a transparently phony savior, more full of himself than any wacko right-wing senator, ambushes America’s party of pomposity. What “unity” with Trump means: For Republicans, winning is everything, principles are swept away and hypocrisy reigns 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Murder turns out to be good therapy, and Mr. Reece deftly walks the line between absurdity and thrills as the pair cover up their crime. Newly Released Books 2011-08-17T22:44:30Z For the most part, though, because she doesn’t use narration or scrolls of text, she expresses Diego’s story — its horrors, absurdity and her attitude toward each — through her limpid visual choices and the performances. Review: In ‘Zama,’ Trying to Say Goodbye (Cruel) New World 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z For a while it succeeds, mingling absurdity with suspense and finding an undercurrent of pathos in Claude’s brooding, watchful temperament and Germain’s simmering frustration. Movie Review: ‘In the House,’ Starring Fabrice Luchini 2013-04-18T21:57:15Z Enjoy the increasing absurdity of Alan's claims: spinal cords in baps? Six to watch: Alan Partridge's best bits 2012-06-22T11:05:44Z She is well aware of the absurdity of her efforts. Review | Dana Spiotta’s ‘Wayward’ is much more than a midlife crisis novel 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z His survival tests the film's credibility, but the plot's momentum holds absurdity in check while Vincent races to rescue his son and perhaps redeem himself in the process. 'Sleepless Night': Cop races to find son in breathless French thriller 2012-08-16T20:56:06Z Perhaps the most testing challenge that confronts crime drama is how to stay the right side of absurdity. Rewind TV: Zen; Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent; Silent Witness ? TV review 2011-01-09T00:05:37Z The characters around the edges become more visible, and their absurdities more painfully familiar. Olivia Laing’s Reading Piles Are Far From Organized 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z One of the country’s two major political coalitions is devoted to justifying and defending those lies to the point of absurdity. Chris Hayes Reviews Michiko Kakutani’s Book About Our Post-Truth Era 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Before it collapsed under the weight of its own absurdity, Heroes burst onto screens with an triumphant debut season. Six To Watch: Superheroes 2011-01-11T15:38:23Z Putting herself in situations that would give "Homeland's" Carrie Mathison pause, Mei seems to be operating less under the lingering myth of Western invincibility and more beneath a jet-lagged cloud of absurdity. 'One Child' examines injustice at expense of personal pain 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z And no one embodies that spirit of over-the-top absurdity better than Forte himself. Will Forte Is Still Waiting for ‘MacGruber’ to Blow Up 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z But what his interview with host Jimmy Kimmel did do quite nicely was remind viewers of David’s knack for skewering the absurdities of modern parlance. Preeetty good. Larry’s back and still misanthropic after all these years 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z It turns out, Mr. Szczygiel discovers, that the Czechs even have a word, kafkarna, that they use to describe “an absurdity that is impossible to explain rationally.” Mariusz Szczygiel’s ‘Gottland’ Sees a Surreal Czechoslovakia 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z She was so plainly aware of both the humor and the absurdity of her predicament. Mariah Carey’s Rather Perfect Farewell to 2016 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z I love how at the end of both of those jokes it just takes a hard left turn into absurdity. Hasan Minhaj’s Week: From ‘The Lion King’ to a Trim With Jay-Z 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Pieces often begin on the edge of plausibility then escalate to full-blown absurdity. The founders of Reductress bring their wit — and new book — to L.A. 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The absurdity of it and the show of it—it’s a hysterical topic. Justin Theroux on the 'Spiritual' New Season of 'The Leftovers' 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Read also interviews many of the West Hayden Estates residents, who participate in soft re-enactments of the events that help bring the absurdity of the conflict to light. ‘’Twas the Fight Before Christmas’ Review: A Not-So-Silent Night 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z The indulgence we give to intellect is also demanded by those who can no longer distinguish between an absurdity and an argument. Who Can Be Finished With Alice? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z “I’m outraged at the absurdity of this backwards attitude,” Bellamacina said in a statement. Cannes festival in row after director and baby blocked from Palais entry 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z A single trial of a single man for a crime of such nature and magnitude is obviously a form of absurdity. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The pleasures of “On a Clear Day” are so intertwined with its absurdities that no theatrical version can separate them. Review: ‘On a Clear Day,’ Eternally Odd, Gets Yet Another Life 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z His affair sets in motion a chain of events that escalates into absurdity, involving an extortion, organ donation and murder. In "The Details," a grown-up role for Tobey Maguire 2012-10-05T18:51:22Z The complexity — and, some say, the absurdity — of music copyright suits is on display in the case of “Get Free,” since Radiohead itself was the subject of an earlier plagiarism accusation over “Creep.” Radiohead Denies Suing Lana Del Rey Over Copyright (but Still Wants Credit) 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z That kind of insanity, you have to find the absurdity in it. “Bombshell” takes down Roger Ailes, but some audiences don’t want to see Fox News women humanized 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z It is hard not to imagine the descendants rolling on the floor with laughter at the absurdity of the Americans. British Museum snaps up 50ft Japanese scroll 2013-04-02T14:38:48Z My work is not necessarily about China, but about people, wherever they are, who are the actors of unlikely fictions unraveling before my eyes, with their poetry or their absurdity. At Arles Festival, 7 Promising Photographers to Watch 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z By highlighting the absurdities of American institutions, he milks the injustice for a laugh while drawing the attention of millions of viewers to the issue. 7 times John Oliver perfectly captured what’s wrong with America — and triggered real reform 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z If comedy was an outlet for the absurdities of Peele’s life, perhaps horror has been a channel for the anxieties. Jordan Peele on Us: ‘This is a very different movie from Get Out' 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Alma, Cyril and Reynolds are all, in their various ways, supremely witty people, capable of underlining the absurdity of their situations with a well-arched eyebrow or a devastating remark. Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Sews Up Another Great Performance in ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Muti can see the absurdities even in a great work like “Otello,” as he showed in another humorous bit in rehearsal. Critic?s Notebook: More Drama for an Opera, Not All of It From the Singers 2011-04-14T22:02:56Z McKinnon clearly shares Daniel's capacity to recognize and appreciate the absurdities and the little bits of magic that each new day brings. 'Rectify's' Ray McKinnon tries to find what matters 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Our ideal model for an episode is to start with something grounded, move to absurdity and end up somewhere surreal, at least momentarily. “I like that spot where fear and laughter converge”: Carrie Brownstein on how “Portlandia” takes on aging, “Transparent” and channeling Sleater-Kinney on set 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Popular and serious culture afterward was infused with “the sense of absurdity, disjuncture and polarization, the loathing of duly constituted authorities,” as Robert Hughes wrote in reviewing the book in Time magazine. Paul Fussell, Literary Scholar and Critic, Is Dead at 88 2012-05-23T22:21:26Z I think that the idea of satire always is to break things down for people, and point out absurdities and injustices in a fun way. Not all comedians are tickled by Trump: He’s “in the news and that’s our job, but personally, to me? It’s nothing but scary” 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z That would seem hopelessly extreme in its absurdity if this wasn't an election year where real headlines have often seemed the stuff of high comedy. In election year, a Ferrell-Galifianakis ticket 2012-08-06T16:57:11Z They joked about the absurdity of the Fox newsroom and “Team Roger.” “Bombshell” takes down Roger Ailes, but some audiences don’t want to see Fox News women humanized 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Where the 2021 film “There Is No Evil” portrayed the moral absurdities of capital punishment, “A Man of Integrity” takes a broader view, examining how corruption has permeated everyday Iranian life. ‘A Man of Integrity’ Review: Fighting Dirty 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z The Coens see the absurdity and the narrowness in the grandeur of the Hollywood mythology on which they were raised. The Coen Brothers’ Marvellous “Hail, Caesar!” 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z In “Santa Clarita,” he attacks the family sitcom with the same stylized absurdity and mock naïveté. Review: ‘Santa Clarita Diet,’ a Suburban Sitcom With Bite 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Rice seizes on the absurdity of it all and puts her production in inverted commas. Singing in the rain 2011-03-27T00:04:08Z Berger, a video editor who works for the Web site Super Deluxe and collaborates with the comedy duo Tim & Eric, manipulates found footage to highlight and/or create moments of absurdity. A Political Satirist for the Internet Election 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z So I enjoyed these characters having a sense of absurdity. The Creator of ‘Rectify’ on Why You Can’t Watch and Multitask 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Highlighting small absurdities like this make "The Good Fight" one of the best shows on TV. "The Good Fight" differentiates between who has the luxury of tuning out our political troubles 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Struggles with technology, parenting, HR, bureaucratic red tape, and the general absurdity of other people are “The Good Wife”’s bread-and-butter. “The Good Wife” pleads guilty: Why this might be the most ambitious season yet 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z It's played entirely straight, but overlaid with a correctly judged note of jaunty absurdity, as if a new version of The Manchurian Candidate had been written by Charlie Kaufman. The Adjustment Bureau ? review 2011-03-03T22:15:01Z Like a coroner with an impertinent sense of humor, Lanthimos piles up the absurdities like corpses. Postcards from Venice: 10 for the Show 2011-09-09T02:50:00Z They have an extraordinarily rational policy toward the absurdity of their art. Perspective | ‘The Sparks Brothers’ digs into the cult of the rock duo. A deeper dive is even more fulfilling. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z But as I sat with that discomfort I began to laugh at the absurdity of my expectations. ‘Too African for Jamaica, Too Jamaican for America, Too American for Nigeria’ 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Be prepared: This is a play about war's agonies and absurdities, about women enduring the most barbaric tortures imaginable. Review: 'Ruined' is an intimate glimpse into a war-torn nation's women and warriors 2010-07-12T23:42:00Z He somehow achieves the emotional impact of good melodrama and the hectic absurdity of classic farce without ever seeming to exaggerate. | 'The Descendants': ?Descendants,? With George Clooney - Review 2011-11-15T21:00:13Z I’d like to see de Mille’s “Three Virgins and a Devil” again: its droll absurdity is fun. Dance Review: New York Theater Ballet in ?Signatures 10? at Gould Hall 2010-04-25T22:26:00Z Some of the funniest scenarios specifically skewered the absurdities of office jobs. What’s the Deal With Adulthood? 25 Years Later, ‘Seinfeld’ Feels Revelatory. 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z The atypical accusations, the absurdity of his alleged crime and his tendency to be fodder for comedians may hurt him more than accusations, even of serious crimes. In and outside court, Smollett fights for reputation, career 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Quietly brilliant, it is an unsentimental look at family life and working single mothers – blunt, warm, fascinated by the absurdity of trying to hold it all together. Pamela Adlon: ‘Better Things is about hope and love amid the darkness’ 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Times of the gig, “and remember the basic absurdity of all of this.” 5 things to know about Tom Rothman, Sony motion picture group's new head 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Why bother, when confounding the perpetrators with their absurdity is far more amusing? Amazon's "One Mississippi" exudes calm confidence in its second season 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z In turn, “Gaslit” goes all in on the absurdity, with a tone at once funny, sleazy and flamboyant. In ‘Gaslit,’ a Victim of Watergate and History Finds Rescue 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z A Confederate flag-themed bikini and replica of the Titanic are among the absurdities she uses to help illustrate race in modern-day America. Fall reading: 12 books to keep you occupied for the rest of 2020 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z More absurdity with Jake the Peg, just one of many fine children's songs recorded by Rolf Harris. Readers recommend: children's songs ? the results 2011-02-17T16:01:23Z From the start, “Atlanta” established a penchant for absurdity. He Gives ‘Atlanta’ Anxiety. And That’s a Good Thing. 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z It understands the absurdities of the corporate pecking order and the fear and loathing of employees who are terrified of losing their jobs. Movie Review: ‘Price Check,’ a Comedy by Michael Walker 2012-11-16T01:05:39Z Leave it to the novelist Sam Lipsyte to revel in the absurdity. Now Pay Attention, Dear Reader. No, Not to That Article, to This One. 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z There was a touch of absurdity in her turning leaps. Dance Review: Ishmael Houston-Jones and Yvonne Meier at Abrons - Review 2012-01-16T23:04:56Z When did you start to see the absurdity of belief systems? David Shrigley: 'More than anything else, I need to laugh at things' 2012-09-29T23:05:12Z Onstage, the work lost much of its intimacy though none of its doughy absurdity. ASMR videos are edgy, unnerving and almost avant-garde. Is it time to consider them art? 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z “At this point,” she said, “we’re both thinking this is already an absurd situation to be in, so like, we’re just going to lean into the absurdity.” He wanted snarky. She was sunny. He was still charmed. 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z The underdog absurdity of this 56-year-old playing Britain’s top secret agent. My favourite film aged 12: Gold 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z A few lines later, he was channeling his 2015 self, cloaking metaphors in absurdity: “Kidnap a kangaroo, I could send a moose.” Perspective | I was wrong about Young Thug 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z He saw how the women in Saul Bellow’s work were, to use his word, absurdities. Harold Bloom, a Prolific Giant and Perhaps the Last of a Kind 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z The sculpture is also, incidentally, a monument to the absurdities of sexism. Take a (Solo) Stroll. Your Next Art Fix May Be Around the Block. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z "Femme Fatale" also succeeds because Spears plays her own "slutty" character to absurdity. Britney Spears, awesome despite it all, plays Tacoma Dome June 29 2011-06-23T15:03:07Z They were movies that, in their exuberant exaggerations, wore their own absurdity with a fiercely straight face, even as they touched on underlying terrors—largely also focussed on the hubris of recklessly manipulating nature. “Alien: Covenant” Bursts with Pomposity 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z For comic absurdity, the tweets that Jacobson makes up have trouble competing with Trump’s actual Twitter feed. A sneak peek at ‘P---y,’ the soon-to-be published novel about Donald Trump 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z A "Karate Kid"-like subplot unfolds as the students fend off the proverbial forces of darkness looming over Kyoto, but sheer absurdity raises "Battle League" above its predictable outcome. 'Battle League Horumo': Armies of sprites strike up the fun 2010-09-02T20:08:00Z Colorful bits of Mormon theology — for instance, the mysterious gold plates the Book of Mormon was inscribed on, according to the religion's founder, Joseph Smith — are mined for riotous absurdity. 'Book of Mormon': an outrageous, but good-natured, trip from Utah to Africa | Theater review 2013-01-11T07:31:05Z Released from “a recriminatory past into an unimpeachable future,” they live in the grip of an anesthetized absurdity designed to keep What Happened, If It Happened from ever happening again, which it may not have. Book review: ‘J,’ by Howard Jacobson, is a chilling tale of our anti-Semitic future “That unique balance of eccentricity and inspiration and absurdity and drama and mystery and emotion — a very delicate balance to maintain.” How ‘Twin Peaks’ Got Lost, and Found Its Way Back 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z To witness white people, a mere 40-minute drive from Chicago, claim the Confederacy as part of their story is to measure the heights of absurdity. My hometown Confederate war 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Dan Aykroyd does what some people find hard in comedy: he totally commits to the absurdity of the role, so he makes it funnier and more ridiculous. The 50 funniest films… chosen by comedians 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z His powerful score reveals the harrowing absurdity of the situation, as the guests become hungry, dirty and hostile. Review: In This Opera, You Can Depart, but You Can Never Leave 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z A few months before the election in 2016, De Niro joined a chorus of celebrities pointing to the absurdity of Trump’s campaign. Robert De Niro v Trump: a complete history of a (mainly one-sided) beef 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Although the role of Vanessa is sometimes incoherent, Ms. Perez brings her natural zest and wonderfully distinctive voice to bear upon its absurdities. | 'Close Up Space': ?Close Up Space,? With David Hyde Pierce - Review 2011-12-20T03:01:08Z The occasional mild quarrels that bubble up between Cookie and King-Lu have their own charming absurdity, as if Robert Altman were directing an episode of “The Odd Couple” written by Samuel Beckett. ‘First Cow’ Review: The Milk of Human Kindness 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Since most of Graham’s dramas are on the cusp of absurdity anyway, they need a rare blaze to redeem them now. Dance Review: Martha Graham’s Company Offer Some of Her Greek Myth Dances 2014-03-20T23:13:59Z The song was a hit, of course, partly because of the absurdity of the situation, but also because no one other than our parents knew of our marital troubles. Modern Love: I Am My Own In-Law 2012-02-02T18:33:07Z The most frequently singled out absurdity was the phrase “Manage dog systems,” which included “potty breaks, food, day care, dog walkers, vet appts,” and helping the studio assistant with in-house cats. High-Profile Art Couple Offers Worst Job Ever 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z But he and Gould feel more invested in life’s macabre absurdity than shock value, essentially delivering one from the heart. ‘Joy Ride’ Review: Still Standing 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z McCracken refuses to distinguish between the absurdity of comedy and the absurdity of tragedy. A Dark Fairy Tale of American Oddballs and Candlepin Bowling 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The encounter with Fitzgerald himself goes on from there to a dialogue of a comically Beckettian absurdity that resulted in a fast friendship. A Brilliant, Unknown Memoir About Classic Hollywood 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z What is perhaps hardest to imagine, for those of us who did not experience Eastern Bloc Communism firsthand, is the way its cruelty and absurdity were woven into the fabric of everyday life. ‘Burning Bush,’ an Agnieszka Holland Film on Communism 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z The movie is flawed; it features far too many aerial shots and one unfortunate scene with an alligator edges into exploitation-cinema absurdity. ‘Emancipation’ Review: Will Smith in a Brutal Journey 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z “Foresight strategist” and “strategic forecaster” is a distinction without a difference, and early on Ellis plays up the absurdity of this culture. Warren Ellis' 'Normal' is a fast-paced dystopia about a burned-out futurist 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z I was an absurdity: an entertainment photographer in a time with no entertainment. VIRUS DIARY: From red carpets to empty streets, and back 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z We all laughed at the absurdity of what had once made total sense. He-Man: Most powerful Gen X unifier in the universe 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z While the absurdity of substituting goats for every kind of tradable commodity is initially humorous, the satire takes an increasingly didactic turn. The Great Goat Bubble – review 2012-07-19T17:30:02Z I resisted that, at first, but looking back it was probably the absurdity and levity of it that finally helped me move forward. This Week in Fiction: Thomas Pierce 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z “The way he makes his images is really unique, and the absurdity has an appeal,” said Elias Bruno, a 21-year-old YouTube host who is one of the agency’s 56,000 Twitter followers. How a federal bureaucrat uses astronaut babies and dogs riding pigeons to try to save your life 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The story is framed by the outsize absurdities of show business, but “Doll & Em” is a character study in miniature. Television Review: ‘Doll & Em,’ as in Dolly Wells and Emily Mortimer, on HBO 2014-03-18T21:28:44Z But we thought it was very important for the dramatic moments to hit, to be a counterpoint to absurdity. Mia Wasikowska: ‘After a while acting leaves you feeling hollow' 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z Yet it’s these very troubles, these very absurdities, that have a thicker, fuller, wilder, freer existence than the drama that’s being filmed. “Mia Madre”: Nanni Moretti’s Cinematic Shapeshifting 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z News last week that Woody Allen’s latest, the Amazon-disowned A Rainy Day in New York, was the world’s number one film at the box office spread fast, mainly because of its inherent absurdity. Clicked back to life: how Netflix is reviving forgotten film flops 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z The son of a preacher man has a secret past in “The Identical,” a jukebox musical that takes time revealing its goofy absurdity. ‘The Identical,’ a Movie Musical About Separated Twins 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus This is the finest theoretical work on absurdity. Michael Foley's top 10 absurd classics 2010-04-21T05:00:00Z That idea came to the fore with Cohen’s extraordinary 1988 album “I’m Your Man,” a collection of woozy songs that drift through the absurdity of existence over a patina of cheap-sounding synthesizers. Eavesdropping on Leonard Cohen’s conversations with the void 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Few Lorca productions entirely escape absurdity: McBrinn's staging is stronger in the bucolic early scenes than the mystic later ones. Yerma ? review 2011-03-14T18:12:45Z Mr. Galván has long pushed flamenco flamboyance past the level of absurdity. Dance Review: ‘La Curva,’ Israel Galván’s Absurdist Yet Serious Act 2014-03-14T21:30:09Z "Witty, often outrageous, always acutely funny about the absurdities of life." Tom Sharpe, British comic novelist, dies age 85 2013-06-06T10:26:33Z He told Zadie Smith that he thought race was an “absurdity” and it was “crazy” to define children in terms of their racial identity. Jordan Peele on making a hit comedy-horror movie out of America’s racial tensions 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z “I wanted them to feel the murderous heat and arbitrary death and relentless absurdity that came with my job,” Brody writes. “Relentless Absurdity”: An Army Photographer’s Censored Images 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z A good dumb show would embrace the absurdity of its premise, find a distinctive, who-cares voice and find ways to tweak one of the world’s oldest comic setups. Work It: Say No to the Dress 2012-01-03T14:31:57Z There’s an absurdity to this burgeoning relationship, as when Jane follows a startled Sadie to her regular church bingo game, that Mr. Baker by turns exploits and smartly reins in. Movie Review: ‘Starlet,’ With Dree Hemingway 2012-11-09T01:27:15Z But those works have brevity on their side, layering their absurdity with very real concerns about the inescapable nature of poverty, a flash of strangeness that echoes far beyond the page. A Bag of Cash Falls From the Sky. Trouble Is Close Behind. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z And it would not be lost on Duchamp, whose appreciation for the absurdity of human activity is exemplary, if often overlooked by both his fans and detractors. How does Las Vegas prevent catastrophic floods? The answer is in this exhibition 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Where Sally’s crisis outrageously flowers into absurdity, Leila’s is the basis for a droll study of friendship and desire, with tenderness in its millennial moping, and emotional depth to its embarrassing emotional pratfalls. “Sally4Ever” and “The Bisexual,” Reviewed: Women in Crisis, In and Out of the Bedroom 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Instead, Toews mines the frustration and absurdity of caring for someone set on self-destruction. Book review: ‘All My Puny Sorrows,’ by Miriam Toews Graeber has too much personally invested in the movement to be able to write dispassionately about its drawbacks and absurdities. The Democracy Project: a History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber – review 2013-03-28T16:10:18Z Ned Beauman's prodigiously clever and energetically entertaining novel, Boxer, Beetle, is astringently funny about the absurdity, dreaminess and strange aggressive vitality of the English fascists. Adam Foulds salutes Romantic Moderns, winner of the Guardian first book award 2010-12-02T14:09:00Z For all its absurdity, there’s something classically romantic about this story. 10 of the Most Memorable Love Triangles in Movies 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z In Pinochet’s Chile, the question wasn’t a laughing matter, but in Ruiz’s world, matters of life and death are never without a dimension of absurdity. ‘The Wandering Soap Opera’ Review: An Excursion Into Raúl Ruiz’s Fertile Mind 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z In fact, its negotiations with fantasy, fable, song and allegory are so organic, continuous and unpredictable as to make any summary of its plot sound absurd; but absurdity is neither Morrison’s strategy nor purpose. Review: ‘Song of Solomon,’ by Toni Morrison 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z He also has that great comic gift – as Spike Milligan did – of doggedly pursuing logic into thickets of absurdity. Comedy gold: Simon Munnery's Hello 2013-06-27T12:05:55Z Schwandt sometimes suggests lush musical possibilities as he accompanies the big cast on an electronic keyboard, and at other moments he plays dark carnival tunes underlining the general absurdity. Review | First ladies on the edge in two plays and a musical 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z A few sardonic shots suggest an eye for corny absurdities, but the director indulges in more than a few of his own making.—R.B. Movies 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Which is not to say the whole scene is without absurdity or even longueurs; but images from it stay powerfully with you. Critic?s Notebook: Bolshoi Sends Alexei Ratmansky?s ?Corsaire? Into Cinemas 2012-03-12T22:19:26Z When I listen to the song now, I can’t say I believe it to be objectively good — but there is something enjoyable about the over-the-top absurdity of it. Even Billy Joel Mocked ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire.’ I Loved It. 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z While he has become a household name for his essays — hilarious snapshots of life’s absurdities — he is perhaps even more beloved for his readings of them. Nonfiction Audiobooks to Download This Winter 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z He shares Kondratiuk's sense of absurdity, a similar devotion to producing comedy from happenstance and the understanding that little guys facing big challenges are inherently funny. Janusz Kondratiuk: Poland's answer to Woody Allen 2011-03-24T16:39:35Z Search Party, while not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, at least has a firm grip on the lives of its audience, and the absurdity of the modern world they inhabit. TV for hipsters: how two new shows are trying to appeal to the cool kids 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z "The relationship of these two men is so mysterious, the hatred they share so bizarre, that the small space they inhabited and the things they fight about take on a Beckett-like absurdity," Bate says. YouTube stars: the memes fight back 2011-08-25T20:59:01Z It's a production that combines sharp satire with true feeling and, while exposing their lethal absurdity, resists the temptation to treat the doctors as easy caricatures. The Doctor's Dilemma – review 2012-07-25T17:12:19Z A story that should have been a taut poker-faced French farce that pushed its premise to the brink of absurdity stalls, unsure of its balance between comedy and drama. | ?Special Treatment?: Isabelle Huppert in ?Special Treatment? - Review 2011-08-25T23:05:36Z Again, the movie’s tongue is in its cheek, and Karina beautifully handles the lightness and throwaway absurdity of that, and everything else in the film. Anna Karina: an actor of easy charm and grace whose presence radiated from the screen | Peter Bradshaw 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Both were producers of an art that was ever-changing, earnest in its adoration of their practice, and destabilizing in their strangely virtuosic absurdity. Perspective | ‘The Sparks Brothers’ digs into the cult of the rock duo. A deeper dive is even more fulfilling. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Well, when Jordan Peele called me up and gave me the pitch “Black man infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan,” I was intrigued, because with the absurdity of that premise comes humor. Spike Lee Reacts to His First Best-Director Nomination 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z The absurdity of the whole thing made me laugh, but I was eager to read the instructions and glad they were in English so my parents would not be able to skip the bad parts. The Heart Said Yes; the Hindu Horoscope Said No 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Fortunately, her coworkers found a little humor in the absurdity of the situation, buoyed by the strong likelihood that this would be temporary, since Li was boosted. The diary of a pastry cook with Covid-19 taste and smell loss 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Now on her fifth novel, King has a lifetime of experience with the pressures and absurdities of being an aspiring writer — and a successful one. Review | Lily King’s ‘Writers & Lovers’ delivers pure joy 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z In later years Wogan wrote a regular column for the Sunday Telegraph which contained his whimsical musings on some of the absurdities of life. Obituary: Sir Terry Wogan 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z The sculptor laughed then, as she does a lot, at the absurdity of other people and her own. The Gimlet Eye: Microcosms of Life: Absurdities With a Cast of Strangers 2010-04-15T01:20:00Z The crowd laughed often, mostly at scenes and bit of dialogue that underscored the absurdity of the tale. Jeremy O. Harris Takes His Twitter Friends to the Movies 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z I grinned, delighted with the absurdity of the picture they painted. "Of course, he’s coming": Single-lone mom with kid travel taught me the joys of not playing it safe 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z If there is one thing above all that defines Mr. Munch’s work, it is a disarming sincerity, a willingness to risk awkwardness and even absurdity by taking seriously an outlandish premise. ?Letters From the Big Man,? Starring Lily Rabe 2011-11-04T22:01:54Z At one level, Brisley is poking fun at the absurdity of constructing a new world using the irrelevant totems of the old. Artist Stuart Brisely: shutting up shop on the old politics 2010-05-21T12:10:00Z A few minutes in, I already found myself thinking in Irbese: gazing at an everyday task and letting the rhetorical questions stack up to a teetering absurdity. Some Personal News From Samantha Irby 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z It’s simply the absurdity of the questions and the perfunctory way in which they’re being asked. Working class hero: Ken Loach’s “I, Daniel Blake” is a must-see in the era of Brexit and Donald Trump 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z The cacophony of hype accompanying Fashion Week venues can teeter toward absurdity. New York Fashion Week: Oh, to Be Fashion Week?s ?In? Spot ? New York Fashion Week 2011-09-07T21:03:58Z He shot a movie of crows competing for a perch and left it to its audience to reflect on their absurdity. Buster Simpson show at Frye a wide-ranging delight 2013-07-04T00:17:32Z On one hand, there's the prize's obvious absurdity – its inevitable subjectivity, not to mention the plain silliness of deeming one book better than another. Michael Cunningham: My fantasy Folio goes to Ulysses and To the Lighthouse 2013-07-16T14:44:16Z The allegory was not lost on me, nor was the intentional absurdity of the plot. Hating ‘Mother!’: Readers Speak Out 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z He often spins manifold gonzo details to create a jangled, cumulative impression of modern absurdity. ‘Quicksand’ review: A zany, and trying, tale of a man who can’t catch a break 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z It was difficult not to laugh at the absurdity, which was precisely the point. Laurie Anderson 9/11 concert at Park West revisited 2013-09-11T21:15:00Z How are we going to make art about this absurdity we're running into? CIA agent turned comics writer Tom King on making art in the era of Trump's "absurdity" 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z The marvelous Iceland chapters — earthy and ruefully funny, warm yet coolly aware of absurdity — suggest that he’s already on his way. In Will Chancellor’s ‘A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall,’ the hunt for purpose is on The phrase “small plates meant for sharing” would seem to collapse under the weight of its own absurdity, but you still hear it. Small Plates Grow Up 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z He seemed amused and a bit startled, as he often does; he tends to look like he’s admiring life’s absurdity even as he experiences it. Isaac Oliver: Reading as Cabaret 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z In his game An Infamous Traffic, about the opium wars in China, Mr. Wehrle believes he achieves the payoff by juxtaposing sobriety with absurdity. Should Board Gamers Play the Roles of Racists, Slavers and Nazis? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Superficially timeless and apolitical, yet deeply informed by the psychic wounds of our current moment, the movie observes collective pain with endearing absurdity. ‘I’ve Got Issues’ Review: Seeking a Point, Starting to Break 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z It is prime Prine: Accompanied by simple, instantly memorable melodies, its lyrics tell of the agonies and absurdities of life that often stand side by side. ‘The Tree of Forgiveness’ Review: John Prine on Life’s Agonies and Absurdities 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z “I just cannot get that worked up over the absurdity of the president,” he sighs, “the absurdity of politics in general.” Bret Easton Ellis, the political outrage machine who has never voted for president 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Glow is at its best when it resists moralizing and, instead, allows viewers to see the painful absurdity of its shocking stock characters through the contrast with the real women who play them. Fight and flight: how Glow continues to show women at their best and worst 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Their intimacy can only manifest through vicious arguments, lending an Albee-esque absurdity to their encounters. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z What he achieves is a kind of epigrammatic excavation, uprooting stories that have been mislaid or misappropriated, and presenting them in their full glory, horror or absurdity. Eduardo Galeano: 'My great fear is that we are all suffering from amnesia' 2013-07-23T16:41:00Z Jen’s gift is for comedy that resonates, and sadnesses that arise with perfect timing from absurdities. Looking at Gish Jen and the Conglomeration of Others 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z The absurdities of her style seem scattershot at first, but yield a larger pattern: a commentary on debt and personal responsibility, family ties and independence. The whimsical fable of Greece’s financial insolvency that you’ve been waiting for 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z “This is the absurdity of the Senate,” he said. Late-night roundup: Jeff Sessions is 'the human antidote to the Voting Rights Act' 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z He really understands the absurdity of life, but he doesn’t let it make him cynical. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Debating Pot in America 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z It is strange that it would be the Hooters owl that symbolizes the tragic absurdity of our society, unwilling to confront either the motives or the means of our now everyday mass murder. Perspective | What perpetual war looks like in America 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z “That kind of laughing at the absurdity of the situation you find yourself in was really appealing to me.” Maria on ‘Sesame Street,’ Sonia Manzano, Tells of Her Own Childhood 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Amid such sparkling absurdity a third offering from Funny Fortnight, Just Around the Corner, lay like a damp squib. TV review: Whatever Happened to Harry Hill? Vic & Bob's Lucky Sexy Winners; Just Around the Corner 2012-08-23T22:15:01Z Here, he expands his tonal range and approaches a kind of Kafkaesque absurdity. ‘The Boat Rocker’: Ha Jin’s timely novel about freedom of the press 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z And despite the absurdity of pretty much everything else that happens in the movie, this one historical tidbit is entirely accurate. How 'Suicide Squad' Recalls a Chapter in American History 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z “Atlanta” is both timely and timeless, interested in both the influencer culture of the moment and in racial absurdities that go back generations. How ‘Atlanta’ and ‘The Good Fight’ Chose Chaos 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z There are also moments of absurdity, such as the opening scene of one episode in season two where the normal introductory teaser is replaced by narcocorrido music: ballads that sing the praise of drug dealers. Breaking Bad: from Mr Chips to Scarface 2012-05-18T23:03:00Z “The objects are able to kind of deconstruct and reveal almost the absurdity, but also support the miraculous nature” of the play, said Mia van Leeuwen, who worked on the adaptation and directed it. The Wide World of Puppetry Converges on New York 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z I honestly don’t want to say too much about the robots, because their arrival sends “The World’s End” spinning into an absurdity that must be experienced fresh. Movie Review: ‘World’s End’ Continues ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and ‘Hot Fuzz’ 2013-08-22T21:06:38Z Others, like this one, make us laugh while wincing, confronted with the absurdity of ourselves. In 'The Throwback Special,' Chris Bachelder tweaks middle-aged male insecurities 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Both are convinced that the hideous exploitation of Del will seem less hideous in the general absurdity of the context. 'Big Time in Hollywood, FL' a weak shot at absurd comedy 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z “The entire country is getting a window into the absurdity of the Chicago political and legal system,” he added. The Jussie Smollett saga: a look into Chicago's broken criminal justice system 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z But on Friday, Mr. Maron interviewed an altogether different guest who, while highly coveted, is not immediately known for his snappy observations on the absurdities of everyday life: President Obama. Marc Maron Discusses his Podcast Interview With President Obama 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Her poems, which she delivered relentlessly, were a cascade of images, often tinged with absurdity, violence and innuendo. Maggie Estep, Slam Poetry Performer, Dies at 50 2014-02-13T01:06:41Z The weirdly sentient fish capture the haplessness of adulthood, the struggle to hold it together and the absurdity of it all. Deep sense of mystery pervades Peter Zokosky's paintings 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z I think that’s where Paul Rudd shines, because you absolutely buy Paul as a hero in the movie but he responds to these absurdities in the same way that you or I would. 'Ant-Man' Director Talks About Paul Rudd's Sweet Spot 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Listen as he snarls at the absurdity of existence. Review | Dan Bejar is not here to comfort you 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z "He reveals something of absurdity and stupidity. He distorts the features to satirize." Object Lesson: When James Ensor turned to skeletons and satire 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z She also wrote the mournful string arrangements that provide a score for much of the film, including a finale that pushes Ray-Ban’s current #ItTakesCourage campaign to the point of absurdity. The Playlist: Jay Z Sips Lemonade and Adele Divides and Conquers 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Ms. de Kooning shared her father’s playful sense of absurdity, and liked to tell of the time he helped her and her mother with renovating their home. Lisa de Kooning, 56, Dies; Sought to Preserve Father’s Legacy 2012-12-01T03:31:02Z Some funny books draw their humor from the ways in which they expose us to the absurdity of other people. In 'The Throwback Special,' Chris Bachelder tweaks middle-aged male insecurities 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z The keynote of his criticism, on television and poetry alike, was not so much wit, in the sense of something pointy and barbed, but humor, rising from the congeniality of shared absurdities. Clive James Got It Right 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z For all the comic absurdities of the plot, this is that rare beast: a genuinely intelligent musical that is performed with evident pleasure by its largely young cast. The Kissing Dance ? review 2011-03-28T21:45:01Z He will be joined by the BBC host Frank Delaney in reflecting on Hollywood, culture and the absurdities of everyday life. Spare Times for May 29-June 4 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Viserys is shocked by the absurdity of that suggestion, but Otto points out that marrying the half-siblings would put an end to the succession conundrum and keep the throne in the family. To "House of the Dragon" viewers, when it comes to Targaryen incest ... it's all relative 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z And the absurdity of the story lines, a general knowingness to the characters and oddball figures like the eternally freaked-out Garfield parody Bill the Cat, kept it from becoming cutesy. Bewildered in “Bloom County”: How its long hiatus transformed the still-beloved comic 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z If you want to express how a person is, the absurdity of life is better viewed from afar. Before and after 'Bean': A talk with Rowan Atkinson, continued 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z I laughed, enjoying the absurdity of it through the interminable guitar intro. Glenn Frey and That Peaceful, Queasy Feeling 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Parts are even dryly humorous in describing the absurdities of war: There was no lack of greed, racist stereotyping, bureaucratic bumbling, infighting and aggression on both sides. Books: Highlighting Differences in Interpretations of the Opium War 2011-08-18T15:14:28Z Chandrasekaran is at his observant best when chronicling the absurdities of the State Department bureaucracy as it went to war in Kabul. Little America by Rajiv Chandrasekaran - review 2012-07-20T21:55:03Z The great thing about Pooter is that he is still lovable in all his self-important absurdity. Diary of a Nobody ? review 2011-03-15T18:23:15Z The Kvartal 95 group was committed to offering the public sharp political satire that would help make sense of the absurdities, ironies and abuses of power that governed post-Soviet Ukrainian society. Why Zelenskyy's background in comedy really matters 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z Like President Trump, this absurdity can be grotesquely funny. Review | Finally, a novel that captures the inanity of the Trump era. It isn’t pretty. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z This potentially toxic mix of arrogance and absurdity is the key to his longevity, and even after demonstrably losing his songwriting mojo during his years off, no other light entertainer eclipses him on stage. Robbie Williams – review 2013-06-30T14:13:59Z He encounters the same absurdity when he moves to Hollywood screenwriting and one of his projects is rejected by Disney for being too good because it would compete with “Toy Story 12.” Movie Review: ‘Stars in Shorts,’ With Judi Dench and Colin Firth 2012-09-27T21:54:52Z Efficiency and pristine structure provide a frame for absurdity in “Kontakthof,” where gestural choreography is accumulated and repeated with purpose as dancers, one by one, treat the audience like a mirror. ‘Kontakthof,’ by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, at BAM 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z At first it’s like a remake of last season’s “You Would Bang Her?”–but it pushes the conceit into absurdity into a faux-melodrama about the male gaze arguing against itself. Review: Inside Amy Schumer Makes the Personal Parodic 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z The world would be a safer place if conspiracies were so patently absurd as this painting, but of course, the absurdity of the belief doesn’t matter to those who believe it. Perspective | Art can help distinguish between conspiracy and reality, and this exhibition proves it 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z By putting Jon Stewart in charge of his “super” political action committee, renamed the Definitely Not Coordinating With Stephen Colbert Super PAC, Mr. Colbert provides a study in the absurdity of laws governing campaign spending. Critic?s Notebook: Stephen Colbert Stirs Up Political Campaign and Media 2012-01-14T02:23:24Z Mr. Skolimowski might have wanted to criticize America’s current wars or create a timeless story of survival, but it’s hard to see his meaning through the absurdities. Critic?s Notebook: Spotlight Glows Brightly in Toronto 2010-09-17T22:57:00Z Writing on deadline for a fast paycheck, Bolaño could be windy, and whimsical to the point of absurdity. Books of The Times: Freewheeling Essays, to Be Consumed With a Cocktail 2011-06-07T14:01:39Z At its sharpest, McDonald's meditatively paced story embodies the absurdities and compromises of being human — with a Hollywood slant. 'The Fourth Noble Truth' a meditation on Buddhism, seduction 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Throughout it all, Wiedeman is an appropriately understated guide, aware that his subject is so laden with self-regard that it only takes a deadpan clause to convey the absurdity of it all. ‘Billion Dollar Loser’ Recounts WeWork’s Big Dreams and Its Harsh Wake-Up Call 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z The movie they made together for a budget of $10 million reflects those shared values, in particular a sense of the absurdity of authoritarianism. 'Rosewater's' Jon Stewart, Maziar Bahari bonded after joke bombed 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z The series embraces the absurdities of its subject with enough compassion to avoid outright parody. Television Review: ?Enlightened? Stars Laura Dern on HBO - Review 2011-10-09T22:00:00Z Though fond of Surrealism and Dada, she was working in an opposite vein: Where they used language to cultivate absurdity, she found in the chaos of words, phrases that touched her mood and memories. Lorraine O’Grady, Still Cutting Into the Culture 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Here the theatricality, absurdity and brutal reality of the duel all come together in one unforgettable image. The literary history of duels, those absurdly formal fights to the death 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z In this stand-alone volume published in Norway in 2008, Mr. Nesbo, the author of the Harry Hole series, allows for the absurdity of the situation but keeps his composure. New Books: ?Irma Voth,? ?Boxer, Beetle,? ?Cabin,? ?Headhunters? 2011-09-14T22:31:31Z It might not be your first choice, but our lives would be pretty drab without a bit of absurdity. Comic Sans not your type? Lighten up 2010-10-22T13:15:00Z Photograph: Andrew Cooper We all know about the absurdity of Hollywood box office, a wild frontier of numeric spin in a business notorious for its dazzling lack of apparent commercial viability. This Thanksgiving, Twilight won't fade and America Skyfalls for James Bond 2012-11-26T14:04:54Z Because like you said, so many of the cases that come before Abby and even before Harry Stone were really focused on the absurdity. "I watched 'Night Court' with my grandmother": Melissa Rauch on reviving the comforting '80s comedy 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z His voice itself can sound like the echo of a bygone era, as he refers to movies as “pictures” and chuckles suavely to himself at the glamour and absurdity of it all. Review: ‘The Great Buster’ Brings a Deadpan Genius Back to Life 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z So I think when you approach it the simplest way possible, with seriousness, much more of the absurdity is revealed. Yorgos Lanthimos Narrates a Scene From ‘The Lobster’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The series leavens wacky absurdity with acid wit and is very funny. Review: ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ Features a Midwestern Fish Out of Water 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Adam, a control freak in an out-of-control situation, pings between panic and wry amusement at the absurdity of his situation, the humbling awfulness of it all. "50-50": What's so funny about cancer? 2011-09-30T13:31:00Z Everything is funny and everything is tragic all the time; I can always see the absurdity. Paloma Faith: 'I wish I was more stupid' 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z But, she added, “he expends unlimited mockery upon the anti-germ faddists and carries their theories to absurdity in practice.” Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z She's never more comfortable than when taking stereotypically feminine concerns and messing about with them, drawing out their absurdities, taking them to extremes and finding their hidden dark side. Comedy picks of the week 2010-04-02T23:12:00Z This is farce with few slamming doors but plenty of absurdity and exaggeration. At Village, a fresh take on ‘The Foreigner’ 2014-01-30T20:18:12Z There is no sense our guffaws are a response to the absurdity of her desire. The making of Melissa McCarthy: how Bridesmaids star kept it real and cleaned up 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z And if you were just a teen watching Scary Movie on the big screen with your pals in 2000, you probably needed a parody like Scary Movie to bring those absurdities to light. Scream of laughter: how today's best-loved pop culture grew from parody 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z “I don’t know if he understood the absurdity of it or even the bad connotations that might come along with being associated with James Franco.” The Art of Being a Character 2011-08-03T20:22:35Z Even potentially rote scenes are done "in ways that emphasize the absurdity of what we take for granted." 'Horrible Bosses 2' earns part of its title, reviews say 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z "The Sellout," in all its spiky satirical absurdity, exists not just in a world created by hip-hop and cradled by the Internet. Paul Beatty's bruising, satirical 'Sellout' is driven by black voices 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Yet the artsy way of looking at 3-D glorifies the format for its decadence, its delicious and despised absurdity. The Misunderstanding of 3-D 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z The Tragically Hip has always sung about uniquely Canadian themes, often to the point of absurdity. Watching Canada’s Biggest Rock Band Say a Dramatic Goodbye 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z Like Fellini’s screen reminiscences, it is suffused with a hearty appreciation of the world’s absurdity, along with a hungry appreciation of its beauty. 2010-01-20T05:20:00Z As the film reaches its lively end, bloodshed and absurdity both peak. ‘Seance’ Review: Summoning Trouble with Lipstick and Latin 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z He also drew brilliant cartoons that captured the absurdities of daily life with a lovely, clear line. Tom Gauld’s “On The Beach” 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z It chronicles a “Dreamer’s” lifelong efforts to navigate the absurdities and Catch-22s of our broken immigration system. The 99-Seat Beat: DACA drama, Lenny Bruce and new Nick Payne 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z The cast, with several members playing multiple roles, strikes a likable note of matter-of-fact absurdity. Theater Review: ‘Hell: Paradise Found’ at 59E59 Theaters 2012-07-17T22:17:09Z By nailing down the absurdities of the past, Winkler allows us to see how the future becomes more open. How Businesses Became People 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z And yet I look back on that time on the Namibian coast with perhaps the most fondness of the entire journey across Africa – the absurdity of it all delights me. Namibia's Skeleton Coast 2010-04-24T23:15:00Z Luger cranks trap music’s booming meanness to the point of absurdity and dares you to laugh. Lex Luger Can Write a Hit Rap Song in the Time It Takes to Read This 2011-11-04T17:42:52Z JacobTV’s music is catchy and for the most part points out obvious absurdities and gimmicks by turning TV into a giant squawk box with a catchy beat. Is it news or entertainment? The fuzziness of modern life gets operatic in JacobTV's 'The News' 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z This is the art world, a place as open to absurdity as it is closed to diversity. ‘The African Desperate’ Review: Double Speak 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z One of the things that made me want to do this movie was the redundancy of the absurdity. Q&A: Jon Stewart is still fighting for the middle ground 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Usually these are frivolous ditties, but one of the show’s remarkable features is that every once in a while a song turns genuinely touching despite the absurdity of plot and performance. ‘Galavant’ Goes Medieval for the Biggest Laughs 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Meyers' stagecraft differs from his work on "Late Night," where he distills the absurdity of our leaders into digestible analysis in "A Closer Look" and other segments. Tripping up the King's Jester: How is Hasan Minhaj still in the running to host "The Daily Show"? 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Huang’s writing is wry and zippy; he regards the world with an understanding of its absurdities and injustices and with a willingness to be surprised. Eddie Huang Transcends Celebrity Chefdom Again 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Jack Lang, a former French minister of culture, bestowed the red lapelled medal on Kitano and praised his work for "inviting the spectator to overcome absurdity with the weapon of laughter". Japanese director Kitano awarded France's Legion of Honour 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z He was bringing irony and absurdity to a venue where there was not a lot of either. You Won’t Have Andy Richter to Sidekick Around Anymore 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z The absurdity of Greaves’s work is a reaction to the current political situation, the statement notes. Review | In the galleries: A former pillar of the fashion world crafts compelling art 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The inventiveness of these musicians extracts the essence of popular music with the picturesque landscapes and absurdities of our society. December's best music from across the MAP 2012-12-19T10:00:00Z Sure, it's tinged with melancholy and longing, but the prevailing satire and absurdity provide consistent laughs, and the chemistry between Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine is just irresistible. 5 funniest workplace movies 2011-07-08T22:27:03Z The standout is Mos Def, a rapper with a sense of theater and comedy, who appears to understand the absurdity of his surroundings and carefully calibrates his degree of submission to it. Critics? Choice: New Music From Gorillaz, the Chieftains and Fenn O?Berg 2010-03-14T21:41:00Z Guests of the glitzy dinner preceding it were given flowing white hooded parkas, quite the extreme giveaway and quite the extreme incident of cleverly orchestrated absurdity, given the climes. | The Wrap-Up 2012-12-10T23:09:13Z If you like absurdity and silliness you'll grow to like my show. Conan O'Brien brings Team Coco to the UK 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z His eye for the latent beauty and evident absurdity of Italian life remains acute, as does his appreciation for vivid performance. Marco Bellocchio’s ‘Dormant Beauty,’ About the Right to Die 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z The absurdity of it all strikes me in the car park as Verne Troyer rolls past me on a motorised scooter with his entourage and I laugh so hard I worry about cracking a rib. Oscars 2011: Tom Bidwell's diary 2011-02-28T21:00:00Z His style balances a self-deprecating tone with biting mockery on all sorts of absurdities. “Stupid is stupid no matter what country you’re from”: What Bassem Youssef’s story of Egypt can teach Americans 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z This is really my version of sitting back and looking at some of the absurdities of your own people in a contemporary context. Lupita Nyong’o Shines a Light on Africa 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z “I didn’t know it was going up. I found out the day it went up,” Goldblum told Norton, still visibly excited by the absurdity — which has been something of his lifeblood over the decades. Jeff Goldblum’s a movie star, jazz pianist and an inescapable meme. What’s behind his enduring appeal? 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z I’d like to point out the absurdity of this entire subplot right now, because I’m starting to feel a sharp pain in my temple when I think about it. Fall of Empire: show's big return is a lesson on how not to run a record label 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The figure of the worker, the absurdity of work, the violence of rebellion: we would do well to study how it was that Balestrini made politics and fiction and art, all in once place. The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z The show’s first season was simply great, brutally dissecting the pretension and absurdity of Silicon Valley’s culture and business practices. ‘Veep,’ ‘Silicon Valley’ and the Intrusion of Real-Life Events 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z It’s also a celebration of the full absurdity of the set: feather bouquets in giant vases and staircases so choked with flowers a Disney princess would say it’s a bit much. ‘UnREAL’ Season 2, Episode 9: ‘This Is All We Need’ 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Plays that mix realism and absurdity can be difficult to stage effectively. Review: In ‘Hunter Gatherers,’ a Couples’ Dinner Grows Increasingly Bizarre 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z A rationalist with a cerebral/silly sense of humor, he crucifies what he considers the absurdities of religious belief. James Morrow’s satiric novel ‘Galápagos Regained’ takes on Darwin and God 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z On “BoJack,” the absurdities of animal behavior are strung through a show about the tragic absurdity of human life. The Origin Story of the Depressingly Good “BoJack Horseman” 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z But fearlessly clearing the air while also pointing out the utter absurdity of an outraged, misinterpreted response to his Tosh comments? Louis CK: I wasn’t defending Tosh 2012-07-17T14:30:00Z It comes instead from observation of the absurdities of life, from the frustrations of being the underdog, from sticking it to the man. "Go the F**k to Sleep" and Tracy Morgan's comedy battle 2011-06-28T16:50:00Z One of the most reliably funny regulars at the Comedy Cellar is Ryan Hamilton, an observational comic who often riffs on the absurdity of his own wholesomeness. Sick of Angry Comics? Try Some Sweet-Tempered Stand-Up 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The transactions of commercial culture can sometimes outdo the absurdities of Dada art. Jeffrey Vallance has a conversation with Leonardo and other giants at CB1 Gallery 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Suffice it to say that “Us” reserves empathy for its unwitting villains while gleefully deriding their comfortably normal state of obliviousness—and the ordinary absurdities of the world at large. Review: Jordan Peele’s “Us” Is a Colossal Cinematic Achievement 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z You sense different layers of reality in her choreography, but they’re so interwoven with absurdity and brainy patterning that her pieces look elegantly hermetic, good-humoredly private. Review: A Low-Key and Witty Premiere by Pam Tanowitz 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z And the Twenty Girls Plan sounds like it could have been orchestrated by “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”’s Aldous Snow, the raunchy overtones softened by its absurdity and wit. This is Leo at 40: How Leonardo DiCaprio became a Judd Apatow character 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z And Bennett shows how the process has accelerated to the point of absurdity. People – review 2012-11-08T01:07:23Z Like the 1985 Martin Scorsese film "After Hours," "The Making of Zombie Wars" puts an everyday guy in manic, absurd circumstances that snowball into more absurdity. Aleksandar Hemon's 'Zombie Wars' springs to humorous life unexpectedly 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z There's a way of seeing the absurdity of all of this folly of life. Michael Showalter on American con artists: "We really are screwed if there's no such thing as truth" 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Things turn violent — and as the body count builds, so does the absurdity level. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Love Life’ and ‘American Soul’ 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z The sheer quirkiness and absurdity of the moves — torsos lunging and legs kicking with sudden impulses — lend them comedy. Dance Review: Olivier Wevers’s Whim W’Him Tweaks Conventions at the Joyce 2013-08-14T20:32:22Z Sometimes Moshfegh’s characters fixate on solutions—ones that are designed to match the absurdity of their fishbowl existence but are also delivered seriously, as if they will work. Ottessa Moshfegh’s Painful, Funny Novel of a Young Woman’s Chemical Hibernation 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z This milk-punch affair had ecstasy and ingenuity and brazen absurdity going for it. Brett Kavanaugh’s Ignominious Place in the Long Tradition of Ivy League Carousing 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z It really does tap into the core absurdity of the horror genre and the filmic imagination you were drawing from. Ti West on anyone walking out of his slasher film "X": "What did you think you were signing up for?" 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z Stanhope wants people to open up to the absurdity of life by engaging with the ugliness and pain in their midst. Doug Stanhope, Miles from Where the Action Is 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z “His descriptions are sharp,” and “in the audiobook version, Ray Porter’s forceful narration heightens the propulsive quality of Verini’s writing, while also highlighting the general and enduring absurdities of war.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z When looking at it, one can’t but think something has gone desperately wrong in the apprehension of God, a surfeit of sensual and symbolic meanings that has led to an absurdity. Medieval Europeans had noses, eyes and ears — and they used them 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z It is, however, an absurdity carried off with great style, technique and narrative flair. Potiche: A French farce with feeling 2010-09-05T22:25:00Z His work falls into a category sometimes called interventionist art, which uses absurdity and outrageousness as polemical weapons. Art In Review: MORTEN TRAAVIK AND PETER FEND: ‘Power Games’ 2012-07-05T20:34:36Z But “Dumb and Dumber,” which presented itself as an invigorating blast of odorous fun, earned its laughs partly because it didn’t soften its no-frills absurdity and heartburning guff about life being a box of chocolates. ‘Dumb and Dumber To’: Carrey and Daniels Strike Again 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Unlike many regular thrillers, there is no comedy or cynicism to counterweight the absurdity, and not much actual excitement either. The Next Three Days ? review 2011-01-06T22:03:01Z Without losing its discerning eye for absurdity, the movie shifts into contemplative territory in the chapter devoted to Bernaschi's wife. 'Human Capital' a sharp view of economic divide 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z David plays Norman Drexel, a version of the familiar character he portrays on Curb: a dyspeptic curmudgeon who is constantly exasperated by the petty slights, annoyances and absurdities of everyday life. Larry David's 'Fish in the Dark': Curb Your Enthusiasm 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z And believe me — I’m beyond exasperated with my own absurdity and escapism. Where is my true path in life? 2012-11-09T01:00:00Z At times Rock in Rio USA felt like a wild party and at times it drowned in Vegas absurdity. Rock in Rio report card: 6 ways to make a better festival 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The absurdities don’t always cohere in this hardworking adventure, despite the lively flair of Wayne Barker narrating and playing original piano music that underscores all the mayhem and melodrama. Classic antics of ‘Laugh’ an uphill climb in Beth Henley’s latest 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Where once images in the play were received as being heightened almost to the point of absurdity, now they have the smoke of realism about them. Sarah Kane's debut play Blasted returns 2010-10-24T20:31:00Z He was always fascinated by cultural norms and the absurdity and the hypocrisy of that kind of stuff. Steven Bochco and Others on Creating ‘Hill Street Blues’ 2014-05-01T17:39:39Z These are just a few of the many questions raised by the ludicrous backstory used in "National Treasure" — but, in a way, the absurdity of the concept works to the film's favor. Nic Cage's 4th of July classic 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z There have been absurdities, where pernickety preservationists have fretted over the precise intentions of bygone Cuthberts and Augustuses, and the conservation of works of concrete brutalism has led to special contortions. Jessop hospital, Sheffield – review 2013-03-31T00:05:21Z Because if we must be force-fed the notion of major surgery as entertainment, let’s at least acknowledge the absurdity of it. ‘Sex Sent Me to the ER’ and ‘Untold Stories of the ER’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z It’s silly without being truly strange or crossing over into absurdity. Review: In ‘The Lego Batman Movie,’ Toys and Heroes, What’s Not to Like? 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z A hot-blooded, Irish nationalist and proto-feminist during her youth, she raged that women were forced into lives of “vacuity, inanity, vanity, absurdity and idleness.” ‘Wilde’s Women’: the surprising force behind Oscar’s fame and success 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z I found myself committing to the absurdity of trying to follow correct gun-handling practices while preparing to blast away at computer-generated Storm Troopers. The VOID Is Where Virtual Reality Enters the Dying Meatspace of the Mall 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The instant standing ovation in Avignon wasn’t merely a way to reward the performers for their efforts: “One Song” lingered in the mind as a wild, exhilarating study in absurdity. The Best (and Worst) Theater in Europe in 2022 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z The absurdity cracked my anxiety, and I sang another song and then another before I grew tired. Karaoke Coast to Coast 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z I was like, “Oh God, no one’s seeing the absurdity of this.” What Can Robert Pattinson Do to Keep You Guessing? 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z But the second and third seasons harness the absurdity of the situation, and you are left with something genuinely powerful and profound. Tired of rewatching Fleabag? Here are 30 TV hidden gems to stream 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Uh, no point, other than, avowedly, to send up the absurdity of movie acting and the absurdity of cinema itself. Rubber ? review 2011-04-07T22:04:00Z Still, the story’s details and absurdities clearly have personal resonance for Mr. Guare, whose name could easily be mispronounced as Gowery. Review: A ‘Nantucket Sleigh Ride’ with Frozen Disney and Hot Lobster 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z And from time to time, the absurdity of some thoughts became a source of entertainment. Goodwill hunting in Spain 2010-12-18T00:07:22Z Interest in anomie, absurdity or paralysis was dismissed as liberal silliness, and an abdication of artistic responsibility. The Brief, Brilliant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z A keen sense of comic absurdity may partly account for her survival. Herta Müller: a life in books 2012-11-30T22:55:01Z That absurdity is fun to watch, Marsh said, but he felt the movie was also relatable in ways that worked well onstage. Yippee Ki Yay: ‘Die Hard’ Comes to the Christmas Stage 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z These “momentary fads” and “mystically-tinged absurdities” — they are sometimes one and the same. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Rush Into the Unknown on Push the Sky Away 2013-02-20T14:30:07Z “We concentrated on the rhythmic elements,” McNicholas said, “but I think we remained aware of the inherent absurdity of the concept of using everyday objects as instruments, so the humor was there from the start.” Farewell to ‘Stomp,’ a Show at the Beating Heart of New York 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z It was a role that showed off Williams's talents – the zaniness, the dressing up, the bizarrely transparent absurdity, combined with his big-hearted, faintly lachrymose vulnerability and sentimental concern for children. Robin Williams: a big heart, a love of broad comedy and a staggering talent 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Neither has Miller's staging, with the dialogue delivered in a pacy blend of lightness and emphasis that makes the most of Gilbert's wry absurdities. The Mikado ? review 2011-03-01T18:13:01Z There is plenty of drama in "Orange," and the laughter it provokes is often rueful, in recognition of shared pain and the dreadful absurdity of the personal choices that so often cause it. 'Orange Is the New Black' Emmy nods a win for women 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The tone, too, is weirdly chaotic, sliding from philosophical conversation to moments of grotesque absurdity. Review | Banned in China, Sheng Keyi’s ‘Death Fugue’ is a pungent political satire 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Damon said that if the film was Mr. Soderbergh’s swan song, it had succeeded in capturing “the absurdity and the tragedy” of “a real relationship.” Liberace’s Tale, From Michael Douglas and Steven Soderbergh 2013-05-17T21:54:42Z The book is as much a reflection on memory and art as it is a war story, and Abdoh’s writing captures beautifully the absurdity of both the battlefield and modern life. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z If you don’t understand the absurdity of that anecdote, well, you’re not alone. Rising Animators Spring Into Motion 2013-07-26T21:11:41Z Perhaps there is a third option in this feminist vs. cool girl dynamic: tackling the absurdity of the situation with humor. “Cool Girls” don’t like Hillary: What “Gone Girl” and “30 Rock” taught me about politics, feminism and smashing the dude-bro patriarchy 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Just be forewarned: After enduring the horror and screwball absurdities of the novel’s extended grand and bloody climax, readers may well feel that they, like IQ himself, need a restorative break. Review | Joe Ide’s IQ series continues with the idiosyncratic marvel ‘Smoke’ 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Most of these scenes are stylized and shot in a dreamlike way meant to highlight their absurdity. So Scandalous a Prosecutor Took Notice 2011-05-13T23:03:02Z Which means they just might restore your faith in absurdity. Movie Review: ‘John Dies at the End,’ Directed by Don Coscarelli 2013-01-31T23:09:01Z The anecdotes, some of which are funny, some horrifying, are edged with a bleak sense of absurdity and shadowed by the rapid onset of oblivion. ‘The Irishman’ Review: The Mob’s Greatest Hits, in a Somber Key 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Not for a moment do we feel we are in anything other than a foreign land, where things are not merely different but antiquated to the point of absurdity. A Thriller Set in Jacobean England Delves Into a Notorious Murder 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z But coming from comedy, I was very interested in the absurdities of the world. The Women of ‘The Dropout’ Want to Humanize Elizabeth Holmes 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Let’s pause for a moment to note the absurdity of this situation. Is this rental-car repair bill a scam? 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z To understand the rigidity — and some would say absurdity — of Sweden’s alcohol laws, step inside a Systembolaget, a government-run liquor store, on a Saturday afternoon. The Buzz in Stockholm Is Craft Beer With Less Buzz 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Defending the ban, news reports quoted the minister, Mustapha Khalfi, as saying that it was instituted to “protect freedom of expression, which absolutely does not mean freedom of absurdity and destruction in cinema.” Morocco Defends Ban of ‘Much Loved’; Attack on Actor Is Called Unrelated 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z The balance of absurdity with satire is of utmost importance to everyone on the set. Another Period: behind the scenes of the Downton Abbey parody 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Adding to the absurdity, Penn voices Bob in a sleepy, squeaky drawl that at once evokes Larry the Cable Guy and Kermit the Frog. What exactly is Sean Penn’s role in the mysterious ‘Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff’? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z People tend to think of crime and mystery stories as “escapist” literature, a way to hide from the atrocities and absurdities of real life. Diamond Doris, the Bourbon King and Other Stars of True Crime 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z That means this show delivers period satire with a thorough appreciation of its artful, evergreen absurdity. Review: Sailing on Silly Seas With ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z In his case, it led to a mild case of mistaken identity, its absurdities more Sedaris than Kafka. Meet your online doppelgänger: On the Internet, nobody knows you’re not really trolling Ann Coulter 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z In a few quick and understated words, the absurdity of the incident is pressed home. The Eternal Greatness of Nas's 'Illmatic' 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z His "With a Light Touch" columns were hugely popular for their sharp satire of the absurdities of corruption and abuse of power and privilege. Adam Lusekelo obituary 2011-04-12T17:17:07Z It began with a malfunctioning electrical heating blanket and mostly kept to that signature feeling of absurdity throughout. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Get Out’ and ‘It’s Always Sunny …’ 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z She can spot hypocrisy, cant, self-contradiction and absurdity 10 miles away. ‘Eligible,’ Curtis Sittenfeld’s Update of Jane Austen 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z "An Iranian Metamorphosis" is a masterful work: the straightforward tale of the artist's detention — and that of his editor Mehrdad Ghasemfar — woven together by moments of humor, tragedy and surreal Kafkaesque absurdity. Cartoonist Mana Neyestani speaks on his Iran imprisonment, Charlie Hebdo 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z And with her very first efforts, she proved why the paucity of women directors in Hollywood is a cruel absurdity. Jennifer Lee, Queen of the ‘Frozen’ Franchise 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z I was playing with the same absurdity of a law. How artist Camilo Ontiveros acquired the belongings of a DACA deportee and what he did with them 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z The absurdity of these figures, at first funny, ultimately highlights their implacable power. A Season in the Congo; Too Clever By Half – review 2013-07-20T23:05:43Z The original movie is so rich with one-liners and little absurdities. Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn Reunite In 'Dodgeball' Video 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Aside from the absurdity of the plus, that is patently ridiculous. Julie Taymor and 'Spider-Man': Punished for Ambition 2011-03-11T09:35:00Z Few artists are so able and even willing to bridge the gap between art and the everyday at such a high level, but Ms. Carlson does so by documenting life’s beauty and absurdity. But Is It Art? In the Case of ‘Doggie Hamlet,’ Yes 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z He also apparently never has to return the cab to the garage, one of many small absurdities on this show. ‘Taxi Brooklyn’ Features Savvy Cabby and Curt Cop 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Everything is mixed together — humor and pathos, horror and absurdity, Christian piety and pagan revelry, modern manners and primal urges. What Happens When We Lose the Art That Brings Us Together? 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z He was a man of a thousand American parts — novelist, stand-up comic, travel writer, impresario, capitalist, full-time celebrity and coruscating social critic — whose ear for dialogue, nuance, slang and absurdity seldom failed him. ‘Mark Twain’s America’ and ‘Huck Finn’s America’ 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Zhurbin, however, made a beautiful distinction between the character’s aged absurdity and his Romantic idealism. Dance Review: Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev in ‘Don Quixote’ 2013-05-26T21:24:19Z In shredding “Girl With Balloon,” Banksy seems to be pointing to a central absurdity of his graffiti art being treated as fine art. Banksy and the tradition of destroying art 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z At every turn, Noguchi attempted to maintain his sense of humanity despite the absurdity of his situation, which forced him to prove his loyalty to his country over and over again. The Japanese-American Artist Who Went to the Camps to Help 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z For both, the absurdity of the patriarchy seemed like natural fodder for that sort of humor, though bits about “women’s issues” are often dismissed as niche or inappropriate. With vocal fry and upspeak, these podcast hosts parody the policing of women’s voices 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z As the story gets underway, the absurdities quickly mount. ‘Based on a True Story’: The Vogue of Killer Content 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z TikTok's mysterious algorithm churns out tons of viral recipes that get obscenely popular, some of them because they combine simplicity and flavor, others for their absurdity. Custard toast is an actually delicious TikTok trend 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z He is, he said, a clown, which he meant both in the Beckettian sense, a witness to the absurdities of life, and in the red nose one. In a New ‘Night Court,’ John Larroquette Plays Defense 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Again, the absurdity of organising the spiky green plants in this way, giving them a hierarchy, is funny. Prickly customers: Martin Creed and Richard Wright in Edinburgh 2010-08-04T20:31:00Z This ceaseless motion may be a special circle of hell reserved for shopaholics, but it also inspires wonder at the magnitude and absurdity of this labyrinthine structure built for parked cars. Around and around with Marcus Herse at Commonwealth & Council 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z The composer, a presence of absurdity and application, played the cups. Review: ICE Features Levy Lorenzo on Teacups and Rebekah Heller on Bassoon 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Both the absurdity of the provincial social climbers and the mad ideological fervor of the cadre of secret revolutionaries who infect them with their obsessions came through only tepidly. | 'The Demons': Peter Stein Takes Dostoyevsky to Governors Island 2010-07-11T23:13:00Z One recent piece, "International Art English", in which David Levine and Alix Rule calmly itemised and eviscerated the absurdities of the visual arts press release, was circulated for weeks on Facebook and Twitter. New York magazines – start spreading the news 2013-01-06T00:07:33Z The WSJ piece was assigned and written as an opinion piece on the absurdity of omitting Shakespeare’s words from purported Shakespeare productions. Most foul: Senator singles out Synetic’s ‘silent’ Shakespeare 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The most startlingly pleasurable aspect of the work is that while it delves deep into the absurdities of dreams and follies, the effect is far less harrowing than in other Bausch productions. Pina Bausch's Tanztheater?Wuppertal: Agua 2010-08-29T20:31:00Z Or his conversation with Sen. Bernie Sanders, in which Maher illustrated the absurdity of using “socialism” as an inherently pejorative term. A defense of Bill Maher (that still criticizes the heck out of him) 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z There is an absurdity to the bleakness of “A Little Life,” a sense that real life only rarely reaches such abominable depths. ‘A Little Life’ Review: A Collage of Unrelenting Torment 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z When you follow the news and you’re aware of these news stories involving race, especially the ones where black people are getting harassed or arrested, you can’t help but recognize the absurdity of it. Laughing while black? Not on the Wine Train. 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z “There’s a fair amount of absurdity to these conversations,” she says. Moving to a new home is tricky. But what about moving a newspaper? 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z “There’s an absurdity to him because he’s timid in such an extreme way and aggressive in such an extreme way,” Eisenberg said. ‘Art of Self-Defense’ examines, satirizes toxic masculinity 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z With a Hedda this sour and cunning from the start, her union with the chipper, oblivious Tessman can only come off as a farce, its absurdity radiating outward. ‘Hedda Gabler’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’: 2 Takes That Shout Subtext 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z His body seems to emphasize the sweet, glorious absurdity of existence. The Screening Room: “Undiscovered” 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z To compound the absurdity, at the same time the federal government invented a category of “Hispanics” who, as government forms invariably note, “may be of any race.” Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t say the N-word 2012-06-05T15:45:00Z Wringing humor and absurdity from the darkest of situations is a time-honored human response to unfathomable nightmares. The uneasy farce of "Jojo Rabbit": Is there ever a good time for "wacky Nazi" satire? 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z On late-night television, it functions as a kind of sarcasm and knowingness, a cosmopolitan eye roll at the absurdity of life. 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z After all, all that heady spirituality would be a bit much without a healthy grounding in banal absurdities. This week's new exhibitions 2011-03-19T00:06:46Z You’d be really miserable if you didn’t have that well-developed sense of irony hardened from years of exposure to the absurdities of modern life. 20 reasons to be cheerful in middle age 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z For all the satire and absurdity and craziness pinballing around the place in this movie, it ends on a deadly serious patriotic note. Oscars 2013: an all-American race 2013-01-10T17:24:54Z Charyn provides little historical context, but he drums up the personal drama of war in all its absurdity and horror. Review | Teddy Roosevelt and his pet cougar leap into action 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z Revel in the absurdity as Jonah Hill and Miles Teller play a serious subject for laughs in “War Dogs.” What’s on TV Sunday: Jonah Hill in ‘War Dogs’ and ‘The White Queen’ Marathon 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z “Comedy has always felt like the most eloquent expression of absurdity, a natural reaction to darkness.” Using Fiction to Summon the Glittering, Golden Age of Hollywood 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z “Robin Hood” is ridiculous from the moment it begins, though the charisma of its cast and the absurdity of its action are enough to sustain interest for a while. “Robin Hood” review: Revisionist history has never been dumber or more boring 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z To call this a bargain as the world slowly, anonymously slides into dystopia is a manifest absurdity, let alone the subject matter of the painting. Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3 Million, Shattering Auction Highs 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z The relentless forward motion has meant no time to dwell on the absurdities of the plot — all that has mattered are the characters, the action and the jokes. Television Review: Death Takes a Holiday, but Not the Aliens 2011-07-07T22:01:58Z These spiraling stories are entertaining in their absurdity but don’t provide a particularly coherent rationale for Howard’s emergence from the afterlife as a spiritual guide for Olive et al. | 'Olive and the Bitter Herbs': Co-Op?s Old Crank Finds a Fresh Spirit 2011-08-17T02:30:38Z Contrary to his insistence, Tribe does not argue that the natural born clause of the Constitution renders Cruz ineligible, but rather uses the issue to draw attention to the absurdity of Cruz’s judicial philosophy. Don’t be a Ted Cruz birther: Liberals should reject the xenophobia behind “natural born” citizenship 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Much of “A Speck of Dust” continues in the same vein as the Barbie riff, with explicit imagery and anecdotes designed to expose the absurdity of American gender politics. Sarah Silverman’s Comedy Is Changing with the Times 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Well, despite its obvious absurdity, I wanted to go to Dickens World. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z Like “El Planeta,” James Vaughan’s “Friends and Strangers” had me cackling at its dry and gleeful absurdity. New Directors/New Films Turns 50 With a Bracingly Eclectic Lineup 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Shot through with looping rhetorical jokes and sight gags that play on the absurdities of the urban environment, the film seeks answers for thorny moral questions in the startling clarity only afforded by dreams. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Lucky for us, this popular Washington Post political satirist is here to point out the absurdity of public figures in the funniest ways. Ten books to read in June 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z Still, here and throughout, the effect is one of self-conscious absurdity and affectionate play. Music Review: In ‘No Hotel,’ the Screen Is a Star Onstage 2013-09-08T21:49:16Z But now he sees these absurdities as a matter of life and death. Jafar Panahi’s Remarkable “Taxi” 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z But borrowing from the Mother Tongue can be a slippery slope into absurdity, said David Coggins, a writer who lives in the West Village. Noted: Americans Are Barmy Over Britishisms 2012-10-10T20:37:21Z Within that context, the recipe's name was less of a wink at the simultaneous delight and absurdity of modern domestic performance and more of a reminder of certain expectations with which I had grown up. On "engagement chicken" and redefining the meals for which we marry 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z Until one day, you find yourself in full-blown pain, oppressiveness, and absurdity. Men aren't volatile riddles for women to solve 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Stitch flicks his blade around all the important things in life, isolating absurdities, nicking arteries. A Wild, Caustic Satire Packed With the Absurd 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z It invites you to laugh at the absurdity of some terrible situations more than its gags. "Barry" star Anthony Carrigan on the finale: "Something lights up inside of Hank" 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z The world is full of painful absurdities, and in his art Alÿs celebrates hope and the power of the imagination, in the face of misery and iniquity. Francis Al?s treads the thin green line 2010-06-14T20:30:00Z The absurdity of the situation was apparent to all. Fighting dirty: could Michael Bay’s Benghazi movie take down Hillary Clinton? 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Nicky’s realized plan is at a similar level of absurdity; what could make for a good movie is the documentary-style plotting and execution of each of its odd steps. The Weird Problem with “Focus” 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z In the 19th century, Dostoyevsky wrote about the phenomenon of self-laceration, as both a physical and spiritual form of torment, a naturally unnatural response to the divisive absurdities of self and society. Bodies in Pain, Protest and Resistance 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Hiding hot content in dull form might be the point, critiquing that approach by reproducing it — a punishing exercise that stops short of absurdity. Review: Dispassionate Traumas and Choral Dream Songs 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Most remarkably, they managed to keep pace with the absurdity of a music video in which a rapping bottle of fentanyl exhorts a drug company’s sales force to move more product. The Verbal Wit and Bronx-Born Street Wisdom of “Desus & Mero” 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z If you’re asked to perform with unlikely collaborators, lean into the absurdity of it. Perspective | Billie Eilish cleans up — but the Grammys are still a mess 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z The meticulous deadpan of the performances diverts attention from the absurdity of the circumstances. Review: In ‘The Untamed,’ Close Encounters. No, Even Closer. 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z They snicker at the absurdity of “an elite team of lifeguards” patrolling the beach like superheroes in spandex. The ‘Baywatch’ movie spoofs the TV show’s cliches – but has that become its own cliche? 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z We are all finding ways to understand and reconcile the absurdities of our unconventional family life, of which autism has been such a huge part. Floods, fires and a very reggae Christmas: how autism touched my family 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z But he is also starting a larger conversation, accessible to anyone, about the absurdity of the fixed image in a world of moving targets. Art in Review: Wolfgang Tillmans: ‘From Neue Welt’ 2013-05-16T20:41:55Z The high level of absurdity was still there. Justin Theroux on the 'Spiritual' New Season of 'The Leftovers' 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z From my hotel room’s balcony, Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, lay before me like a curiosity shop at the crossroads of antiquity and absurdity. Beyond Kitsch in Skopje 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z It's preaching an almost nihilistic lesson about the absurdity of all human lust and endeavor, with perhaps a side reference to Jesus' famous maxim about the root of all evil. "A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop": "Blood Simple," Hunan-style 2010-09-03T19:31:00Z “Morals clause” is an absurdity in the universe of “Perry Mason” — the morals of most of the characters could be contained in a punctuation mark. Review: ‘Perry Mason’ Returns, Hard-Boiled and Warmed Over 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z I fell for “21 Grams” despite its absurdities, largely on the strength of its performances by the likes of Naomi Watts, who, in “Birdman,” plays an actress, Lesley. ‘Birdman’ Stars Michael Keaton and Emma Stone 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Aside from the endlessly surprising course through this hall of mirrors, Beauman’s voice is hypnotically witty: Candied absurdity steamed in a banana leaf. Review | Can anyone figure out what’s happening in Ned Beauman’s new comic novel? 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z That image announced both McCall’s major theme—the absurdity of city life—and the tenets of his style, which relies on gently satiric detail. Bruce McCall’s “Down the Hatch” 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z “Il Trovatore” overcomes its absurdities, though, with its vitality, its irresistible melodies and tightly driven rhythms. Music Review: Verdi?s Irresistible Melodies And Implausible Plot 2011-04-21T21:41:03Z Given the absurdity of the sex scene controversy, and Woodley’s confusion over what feminism is, this seems a perfect opportunity to bring you the most feminist mainstream sex scenes on offer. The most feminist sex scenes of all time 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z It wasn’t until after the show that I read May’s program note about “exposing the titillation of postmodernism’s detached aesthetics and its unbearable absurdity.” Review: Dispassionate Traumas and Choral Dream Songs 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z See, this is exactly the absurdity of homophobes — when they reveal their squeamishness and essentially say, “We don’t mind if you’re homosexual as long as you don’t seem homosexual around us.” Conservatives mad at Hilton for showing gay couple in ad 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z As in “Alice in Wonderland” or “The Phantom Tollbooth,” Fidge is dragged through a gantlet of absurdity, forcing her to engage with a fictional world she disdained. Young Heroines Who Are Saviors, but Not Saints 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z But for a show enamored with retail democracy in all its absurdity, it’s too much to resist. ‘The West Wing’ and David Byrne Stage America 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z But this actor — played by Mr. Cobb and likewise called Keith, presumably in acknowledgment of the semi-autobiographical nature of the play — has other beefs beyond the usual absurdity of the situation. Review: In ‘American Moor,’ an Insider’s Guide to ‘Othello’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z And when I want to be entertained, I sort of want to be taken away to some absurdity or some time period that might be real curious. | Debbie Harry: Debbie Harry Interview: Blondie Album, ?Panic of Girls? 2011-08-27T04:00:27Z This sense of absurdity is joined by a Rabelaisian streak. A Bawdy Novel Considers the Tragic Absurdities of Lebanon’s Civil War 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Dane Cook: Troublemaker Both prolific and polarizing, the 42-year-old comic returns to his stand-up roots to share his perspective on the absurdities of modern-day relationships — particularly those entwined in social media. Friday's TV Highlights: 'Porgy And Bess' on KOCE 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z In real life, Mr. Sinclair will utter a statement like “My ayahuasca shaman says New York shrinks your aura,” and then, as the show would, do a little eye roll to acknowledge the absurdity. Brooklyn’s Favorite Pot Dealer Returns 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The absurdity is right there on the page. Christopher Meloni: Playing Gene in the "Wet Hot" Prequel 'Was Like Going Home' 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Kubrick presents the show trial that follows as the height of absurdity, mounted entirely as a face-saving measure for a general who’s seeking a promotion at the grunts’ expense. Before 1917: revisiting the greatest first world war movies 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z But as “Good Friday” edges closer to the case it wants to make — about sexual violence in a patriarchal, misogynistic society that many women are complicit in perpetuating — it teeters between sympathy and absurdity. Review: In ‘Good Friday,’ an Unblinking Look at Rape Culture 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z “The danger of showing the complete absurdity of the Klan is that it undermines just how pervading their ideas were and how influential and destructive they became in these historical moments,” he said. Spike Lee Takes on the Klan 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z This is not some absurdity at the fringe of our way of life. Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess 2014-04-13T11:00:00Z It’s serious, beautiful, wise to the absurdity of life and in the embrace of a piercing longing. | 'Hugo': Martin Scorsese?s ?Hugo,? With Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen - Review 2011-11-22T22:17:26Z But it’s connected to the absurdity of trying to make sense of existing while black, coping with it. Damon Young on the ‘Absurdity’ of Being Black 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z The conversation devolves into an exercise in absurdity. Veterans' new fiction adds needed perspective on war zones 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z We were struck by the absurdity of it. "The Truffle Hunters" filmmakers on the fungi's mystique: "Everything about this world is a secret" 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Maybe it was a meta-commentary on the absurdity of institutional affirmations of art. A Transcendent Patti Smith Accepts Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z The thriller spoof “The 39 Steps” milks absurdity for all it’s worth, the shtick involving a milkman being a case in point. Review | Constellation’s ‘39 Steps’ is a comic thriller without thrills 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z The film is “serious, beautiful, wise to the absurdity of life and in the embrace of a piercing longing,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times in November. Lionel Rogosin?s ?On the Bowery? on Blu-ray 2012-02-24T20:10:52Z And yet, we are seeing this issue exploited to absurdity. No freak-out over South Park 2010-04-23T11:30:00Z What he doesn't hate is the fact that he would rather drown in self-righteous self-pity than acknowledge the absurdity of the situation. Showtime's 'Happyish' mostly just selfish and smuggish for now 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z Perhaps you enjoy your absurdity in the form of a main campaign. Game On: 'Saints Row' absurd fun; 'Ultimate' superior 2011-12-02T20:12:04Z These works are among the enduring expressions of the absurdity and estrangement of modern life. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Because the thing about this therapy — perhaps like the play — is that it works not despite but because of its absurdity. Review: Race and Sex in Plantation America in ‘Slave Play’ 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z When delivered in musical-comedy style, these vignettes float into the high altitudes of absurdity. | 'The Book of Mormon' : Missionary Men With Confidence in Sunshine 2011-03-25T02:30:32Z Kids will laugh at the absurdity of the characters' names in "Cat the Cat, Who Is That?" Good new books for beginning readers 2010-07-30T22:52:00Z There’s a sense of finality that starts to creep into the last episodes, but still a spirit of absurdity and experimentation. ‘Broad City’ Is Ending. Be at Peace With That. The Creators Are. 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z The internet found the uncanny absurdity of that dance scene — much of which ended up in the first trailer for “M3GAN,” opening Jan. 6 — irresistible. ‘M3GAN’ Makes Us Ask (Again): Who’s Afraid of Dancing Robots? 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Often, with Kelly, you felt as though he offered up some ideal slice of the world, decontextualized almost to the point of absurdity. Ellsworth Kelly, the master of the deceptively simple 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z This is a perfect summation of the insane absurdity of neoliberalism and what it does to the people who live under it. "Joker": A harsh indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Denmark and Finland fall somewhere in between - pricey, but not to the point of absurdity. Frugal Traveler Blog: Scandinavia on $125 a Day 2012-08-24T18:02:01Z He grew up “knowing my identity was a representation of the absurdity of the idea of race”. Jordan Peele on Us: ‘This is a very different movie from Get Out' 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z And the best way to attack absurdity is to prove it wrong.” MtyMx Expands Indie-Rock Frontier to Mexico 2010-03-09T23:19:00Z The dignity of the garment, a mass-produced product of a global twenty-first-century marketplace, captures in an instant the absurdity of the schooner exercise. The Way Forward for Hipster Food 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z And then by the dissonance between the absurdity of how he looks, in his powder-blue T-shirt and fake ears, and the eloquence of what he says. Postscript: Leonard Nimoy 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The sheer absurdity of listings also makes for engaging content. Zillow Surfing Is the Escape We All Need Right Now 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Satire can be defined as “a form of humor in which absurdities, vices, follies, abuses and shortcomings are presented and ridiculed, with the intent of shaming the target into self-improvement.” Donald Trump’s modest proposals: His campaign sounded like a Jonathan Swift essay — but who got the joke? 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z In an ingratiating way, she seemed to recognize the absurdity of her Zsa Zsa-meets-Real Housewife persona while also playing it to the hilt. Perspective | Without Ivana Trump, there would be no Donald Trump 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z On “Document,” R.E.M.’s take on the country is indeed a mixture of absurdity and brutality. 1987’s “Document” feels especially applicable to America in 2017 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z It soon devolved into a debacle, as an army of pranksters flooded the phone lines with ridiculous tales meant to highlight the absurdity of the proceedings. In case you missed them: the Guardian's unsung heroes of 2020 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Luckily, Ms. Rosenfeld is an astute anthropologist whose satire reaches fresh levels of absurdity. ‘Class’ Takes Satirical Aim at Brooklyn Grade-School Parents 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z The story, like so many of Carver’s, is a jagged shard of painful absurdity, a glimpse of the human condition that the film, written and directed by Dan Rush, expands into a picture window. | 'Everything Must Go': A Picture Window on a Life Turned Inside Out 2011-05-12T21:43:02Z Historically, what made SNL’s campaign coverage so necessary was its ability to highlight the subtle absurdities of the election and exaggerate the ridiculous. Saturday Night Live: Baldwin is back as Trump for 'worst ever presidential debate' 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z I wonder why his parents, both scientists, could not see the absurdity of it. Bowen Yang of ‘S.N.L.’ Is a Smash. And a Mensch. 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z One of the comics comments on the absurdity of being complimented on her cancer-related weight loss. Writers Recount Stories of Grief and Joy in Illustrated Panels 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z The idea that we would face an election cycle without either of them offering a critical, witty, sarcastic take on the latest political absurdity led to worry. 5 ways the 2020 election will be shaped by late night comedy 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z The test of melodramatic power is when audiences have trouble suppressing laughter at inappropriate moments; its virtue is its wondrous absurdity. Blake Lively Lives Forever 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z You’ve been marched from quasi-religious belief in transcendentalist possibility through stages of increasing materialism and absurdity, ending with Mr. Serra’s adamant existentialism. Art Review: ‘Re-View: Onnasch Collection’ Is a Postwar Journey 2014-02-20T23:25:13Z Predictably, the writers relied far too much on Coronavirus jokes, but there was enough absurdity throughout to counter balance this, and the show went out on a real high note. SNL: Elizabeth Warren faces Kate McKinnon's Elizabeth Warren 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Tucker’s impromptu performance of the Kinks’ “Waterloo Sunset” is a high point of sweetness and absurdity, and Mr. Hawke gets it just right. Review: Ethan Hawke Is Just Right as a ’90s Indie-Rocker in ‘Juliet, Naked’ 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Forster’s brief, characteristically businesslike turn in “Better Call Saul” is like a blessing, and it reinforces a tone: laconic, no-nonsense, amused by life’s absurdities but rarely taken by surprise. Review: As ‘Better Call Saul’ Returns, ‘Breaking Bad’ Comes Into View 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z The balance of absurdity and delicacy, of trashy and sweet and downright disturbing, is not quite like anything else I've ever seen. Pick of the week: Your favorite teen soap -- on drugs! 2011-01-28T01:30:00Z Melodrama runs on a contrast that borders on absurdity—the grandeur of passions arising in ordinary circumstances involving everyday people. Blake Lively Lives Forever 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z To the unacquainted, it sounds like an absurd comedic premise, but the absurdity is the premise. Meet 17-Year-Old Indonesian Rapper Rich Chigga 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Taken as a whole, these fleeting moments lead to the realization that the series' creators and the cast have conflated satire with absurdity. No amount of wine can make "The Woman in the House" spoof work, despite its charismatic star 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z He directs with a dry, Buñuelian touch, savoring small absurdities and letting the larger themes hover in the soft Orange County air. Review: Salma Hayek Skewers a Boor in ‘Beatriz at Dinner’ 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Along the way, he picks at the scab of Chicago’s abysmally high murder rate among young African-Americans and the absurdity of a culture in which it’s “easier to find a gun than a … parking spot.” Album review: Chance the Rapper, 'Acid Rap' 2013-05-10T18:44:00Z Her persistence transforms the gag into a great way to capture the tenor of our times, when the world seems more surreal than anything made by a Surrealist, and absurdity seems to be normal. To Jeanne Silverthorne, the joke's on us at Shoshana Wayne Gallery 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z There was griping, but little resistance, all of us resigned to the absurdity of waiting outside in winteresque temperatures to be allowed into a store that exclusively sells cold-weather gear. Critical Shopper: Moncler, Where the Parkas Need a Bouncer 2010-10-27T17:51:00Z |
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