Article: Valery Ronshin. Living a Life: Totally Absurd Tales.(Book Review)

Article: Seriously ... true tales of the absurd: tales from ...
New Internationalist;  January 1, 2004 ;     376 words ...Seriously's quote of 2003 comes from a 40-year-old veteran of the US Marine Corps in a letter to anti-war comedian Michael Moore: 'No wonder the world hates us, who do they get to see? Young assholes in uniforms with guns, and rich, old, white tourists! Christ, could we put up a worse first

Article: Almodovar The Extreme, Close Up;His Passions: Absurd ...
The Washington Post;  June 5, 1994 ;     700+ words ...Why bother telling you about Pedro Almodovar? He does it so much better himself. Born in La Mancha four decades ago. Despite living the ensuing years intensely, he has yet to find inner peace," Almodovar writes in a peculiar, two-page curriculum vitae. "Five lovers. Ten films, written and

Article: 'GRANTA' READING: LUC SANTE+JAMES LASDUN+MASHA GESSEN
The Village Voice;  August 3, 2005 ;     458 words ...Soul-grinding, eye-opening, and absurd: Tales of a low life 'GRANTA' READING: LUC SANTE+J AMES LASDUN+ MASHAGESSEN Thursday at 6:30 Madison Square Park Enter at 24th ...

Article: When Magic Meets Reality; The Shock That Taught A Lesson About ...
The Washington Post;  November 8, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... at first, the linkage of the words "Magic Johnson" and "AIDS virus" seemed ridiculous. It was too similar to other absurd tales that are routinely circulated by Hollywood hairdressers to be real. A "yeah, right" kind of rumor about one of the luckiest ...

Article: British poet-comic to take ECC's SecondSpace stage Saturday
Courier-News (Elgin, IL);  October 20, 2001 ;     582 words ... ... overly assertive verbal riffs favored by many of today's comedians. Barker, though, has been known to weave in and out of absurd tales, threading together a bizarre cast of characters, including "Jason and the Arguments." Who would want to miss Barker ...

Article: A wink can be worth a thousand words.
Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL);  March 23, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... table, my older brother, the prankster, the exalted eighth-grader, got in on the act. During one of Uncle Willie's absurd tales, my brother tipped back in his chair, caught my eye and flashed me an outrageously exaggerated, mocking wink. I let out ...

Article: Heard the one about Shipman, West and Sutcliffe? It's a killer
The Sunday Herald;  June 30, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Trust. In a take on Monty Python's Four Yorkshiremen sketch, where characters try to outdo each other with increasingly absurd tales about the poverty they suffered in childhood, the three comedians - Ross "Teddy" Craig, Steven Dick and Allan Miller ...