| Now, of course, this movie is an absurdist farce, the actor is a clown, and the scene is a joke. |
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| Jess's early collages used advertising images and slogans to present a satirical, absurdist view of sexuality and politics. |
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| The secret to Green Acres' enduring appeal is its absurdist view of the world. |
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| The play also captures something of Beckett's absurdist tragicomedy Waiting for Godot. |
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| The outlandish titles appear to contain apocalyptic messages, albeit relayed with absurdist humor. |
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| This film is an episodic road movie in the Jarmuschian style, which is to say unpredictable, offbeat and peppered with absurdist humour. |
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| Pataphysics is the absurdist concept of a philosophy or science dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics. |
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| He based a fictional bomber squadron on the island for his absurdist 1961 book, which became a cult classic. |
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| Set in a soi-disant boarding house in a seaside town, The Birthday Party has the feel, off the top, of a slightly absurdist comedy. |
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| His films are often absurdist and violent, intrinsically drawing on his early life but never dealing directly with it. |
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| The director stays fairly conventional, reining things in when he could veer off into wonderfully absurdist territory. |
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| It's a delightful piece of absurdist nonsense, a sitcom designed to offend highbrow admirers of minimalist dance. |
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| This absurdist children's comedy starred the standup comic as a pizza delivery man. |
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| The thriller plot is fragmented, subsumed in absurdist detail and consistently mapped onto the struggle between body and landscape. |
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| Indeed, 7 Stories has all the makings of an absurdist comedy, but beneath its veil of irreverence lurks a vehicle for lofty, provoking ideas. |
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| It's easy shuttling between a style of largely absurdist speculation and sudden pockets of very serious assertion. |
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| In an absurdist prose poem he wrote at the time, renewal is associated with class-based oppression. |
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| His eight models are absurdist and visionary monuments to human, societal, and governmental follies, abominations, and questionable policies. |
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| It is an absurdist drama played out against an almost constructivist background of red, white and blue rectangles. |
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| It instead focuses upon the absurdist horror of one man holding back a tide of blood. |
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| It is now time for this Council to put an end to Israel's absurdist acts before this esteemed Council. |
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| They are examples of the aggressive, absurdist art they advocate. |
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| There are loads of aspiringly wacky art acts around, but few can match the authentic awkwardness of David's absurdist tableaux. |
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| Ms. Varda enjoys the absurdist contrast between his abstract language and the florid vegetables surrounding him. |
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| November 13 2014 November 16 201414 Baldwin is a collagist — a bit of absurdist humor here, a surge of violence there. |
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| The irony is that there was nothing inevitable about the arrival of the British and Irish governments on this absurdist terrain. |
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| The Hollywood novel's take on the relation between contemporaneity and tradition is more consistently comic and absurdist than the epic visions of modernism. |
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| But Dave and his crew kept living the nightmare and probing the depths of depravity through their absurdist, folk-art horror-show. |
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| Whether you want news up to the nanosecond or an absurdist joke, these are the Twitter feeds you need to follow now. |
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| In an instant the case pitched from tragedy to travesty to absurdist spectacle, the judgments coming far faster than the facts. |
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| When Edmund finally stands up in front of the expectant graduates, Everything Is Going to Be Okay takes an absurdist turn. |
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| Country-wide, the lack of utilities, even in urban areas, leads to absurdist predicaments. |
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| Unlike in the Disney version, she and the other creatures are all in jolly, absurdist communion. |
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| But the overriding likeness is the fun, almost absurdist sense of humor. |
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| What follows is a welcome dose of absurdist humor just when we need it. |
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| Taking to an absurdist extreme the notion that the unique qualities of a medium should dictate its form, he produces three-dimensional objects composed solely of paint. |
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| He was initially portrayed as some kind of Pythonesque absurdist. |
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| Indeed, with some stage directions and a bit of good will, the whole thing could easily have been passed off as a one-acter from some second-rank absurdist playwright. |
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| Marie's subsequent rendezvous with her husband to discuss the ransom money is quite absurdist, occurring on a very crowded street near a poissonnerie and a merry-go-round. |
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| You pretty much can't get a better absurdist parody of politicians' vapid sure-is-nice-to-be-here patter than that. |
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| Blasim is not the kind of post-modern absurdist who trades in forced, inconsequential whimsy. |
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| Thumb to any given page, and the array is stunning and absurdist. |
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| In 1960 he made his second appearance for the Royal Court company in Ionesco's absurdist play Rhinoceros. |
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| To mark its thirtieth anniversary, the Noguchi Museum invites Sachs to create a sprawling installation, an absurdist mash-up of chanoyu the traditional Japanese tea ceremony and space exploration. |
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| Bizarre breakout sessions offer equal parts tongue-in-cheek parody and absurdist drama, as together we unlock our deepest desires and try to remember what human interaction is all about. |
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| Die Wält der Zwischenfälle is based on texts by Daniil Charms, the master of 20th century Russian absurdist literature and heir to the worlds of Gogol and Dostoevsky. |
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| Always riding the edge between the aptly critical and the politically incorrect, McCarthy pushed the boundaries of performance into outrageous farce, absurdist expressionism, and grotesque exaggeration. |
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| The commodification of the Zapatista movement recently reached absurdist heights with the New York Times designation of rebel villages in southeastern Chiapas as a hot budget tourist destination. |
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| Like many of the songs in their subsequent repertoire, the song was inspired by a banal story of everyday life, the group's absurdist humour weaving the most hilarious stories around the most unlikely subject matter. |
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| The film will star his wife, the well-known Czech actor Dagmar Havlová, and looks set to be an absurdist examination of the life of an ex-politician. |
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| Ironically, The Winners could be read in Belarus as a positive reflection of the state, while being greeted in the west as an ironic and absurdist look at the same. |
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| Post-impressionism with an absurdist bent. |
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| His critically-acclaimed grouchy, deadpan style has established him as a master of absurdist irony and the king of rapid-fire wit. |
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| The Nuit blanche is a madcap happening in and of itself, but also hosts an array of absurdist, wacky activities that, frankly, defy classification, save for their common denominator: fun. |
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| French writer Boris Vian's 1959 absurdist text is directed by Aleksandar Popovski in the Hayal Perdesi production, set for a Sept. |
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| Elsewhere in the show, Bailey appeared to make explicit reference to the absurdist visions of Hannah Hoch and other Dadaists. |
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| It's an absurdist funeral song, basically. |
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| Andersen presents absurdist approaches to questions of life and death, never losing his sense of humor or his lighthearted turn of phrase. |
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| Samuel Beckett's classic comedy in the absurdist tradition tells the story of two friends who pass the time together while waiting for Godot. |
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| Back in her native Japan, Shoko Uehara originally made a name for herself dressing up in cow-print pyjamas and bemusing audiences with absurdist lyrics. |
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| Before the book is relegated to the second-rank of Baker's fiction, though, consider the author's sly sense of humor and the absurdist, Vonnegutian context. |
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| Nunnery fuses Eugene Ionesco's absurdist play of the same name with contemporary stories of migration and repatriation set deep within an imagined European state. |
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| The Body Under the Stairs is the final instalment of the Cullercoats playwright's absurdist trilogy and will be performed by the Cloud Nine company. |
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