Theater Of The Absurd

Part of the fun of watching the Super Bowl lies in the theater-of-the-absurd quality of so much the commentary. ❋ Unknown (2009)

No way he was going to be up under the lights, do the theater-of-the-absurd thing. ❋ Ginnah Howard (2011)

He had a trunk full of culture jam tales about Yippies throwing money into the New York Stock Exchange pit, levitating the Pentagon, running a pig named Pigasus for president, and the 1969/70 theater-of-the-absurd masterpiece that was the conspiracy trial of the Chicago 7. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As noted earlier, James Earl Ray was apprehended in a theater-of-the-absurd confrontation with the customs people at London's Heathrow — presenting two passports with different names; trying to smuggle a concealed weapon aboard a plane — but Hoover asked the British authorities to keep it quiet. ❋ Haldeman, Joe & Fields, Trinity (1984)

Rather, they've insistently maintained that minus the effects of quantitative easing, fiscal stimulus and theater-of-the-absurd monetary policy, there never really was a recovery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I've enjoyed TBA and Loaded Dice, but my favorite has been Babel Fish, a heady mix of off-the-cuff sketches, theater-of-the-absurd meaninglessness and a grad-school bull session. ❋ Unknown (2009)