Her works amplify the burdensome but also the colorful absurdities.
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No Pineapple Left Behind brims with little absurdities like this.
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Mr Kaurismaki lays bare some of the absurdities of the system.
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You could spend days unpacking the absurdities here, and others have.
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In the Trump era, backing the president necessarily entails defending absurdities.
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By essentially breaking this legal system, Rowland lays bare its absurdities.
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The original movie is so rich with one-liners and little absurdities.
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It called out the absurdities of literally years of period product advertisements.
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The N.F.L. being the N.F.L., the week's absurdities did not end there.
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Pineapples and mushrooms Claire can laugh at the absurdities in her life.
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The absurdities of the tragedy in Yemen are sadly echoed in Syria.
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Bob Zellner can attest firsthand to Wallace's absurdities at Harvard's Memorial Hall.
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If they can make you believe absurdities, they can make you commit injustices.
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The insistence on calling Serbo-Croatian four different languages leads to endless absurdities.
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But this sober, fearful version of events leaves out the absurdities of Watergate.
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Europeans, by contrast, are metropolitan, pragmatic, and hardened by the absurdities of life.
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"The writer is looking at the absurdities in the story," the artist says.
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"Boyagoda finds dark absurdities in all corners," Tom Barbash writes in his review.
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Conservative strategic thinkers are not caught up in the moment's outrages and absurdities.
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What had originally struck him as absurdities began to seem like profound mysteries.
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Feinstein connected with the audience over the absurdities of family and her Jewishness.
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Beyond the immediate damage, the breach reveals some deep absurdities in Equifax's business model.
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And why not, says Mr Thielen Armand, considering the daily absurdities that Venezuelans encounter.
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In between the stories and the absurdities, Kate Bush reaches out for us specifically.
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But if Yeezy taught us anything, it's that he is no stranger to absurdities.
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But I learned last week that some of TSA's absurdities might be my fault.
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The story almost doesn't even matter, except to tie together a string of absurdities.
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Varoufakis does a magnificent job of evoking the absurdities and frustrations of his tenure.
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This season is simultaneously mournful and playful, full of dramatic showpieces and inspired absurdities.
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Finally, Michigan should fix its broken occupational licensing scheme, which is rife with absurdities.
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Art, at its best, points out the absurdities and inequities we live with every day.
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As always, Fisher is a superb narrator of the absurdities and awfulnesses of her upbringing.
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Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
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"Seinfeld" focused on the absurdities of modern life rather than how friendships make them bearable.
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It's a noticeably innocent moment amid a show filled with drugs, murders, and metaphysical absurdities.
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Ms Waller-Bridge dissects the absurdities of being a young woman in the modern world.
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He saw how the women in Saul Bellow's work were, to use his word, absurdities.
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If Mr. Ransohoff appreciated talent, he also appreciated the occasional absurdities of the movie business.
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Instead, as we now know, he has been consumed with the absurdities of British life.
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"I think it's important to point out the flaws and absurdities about these organizations," Ella said.
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It is, as always with Mr Trump, easy to exaggerate the negative effect of such absurdities.
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To my mind these outweigh the many small absurdities that EWR inflicts on the unsuspecting traveler.
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Whether unauthorized programs are widely considered vital national interests or obvious absurdities, inefficiency exists across government.
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Baumbach's approach to the challenge of representing marriage and divorce is to treat both as absurdities.
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Jen's gift is for comedy that resonates, and sadnesses that arise with perfect timing from absurdities.
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There's plenty of sex and drugs here, along with the absurdities of the hard-rock life.
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Instead, I regularly hear absurdities like jumping into postures breaks up cancer or headstands reverse gray hair.
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The news cycle is dominated by an endless series of controversies and absurdities streaming from his camp.
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The absurdities of comics are, in part, made possible by a cold-eyed approach to sentence-craft.
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Instead, I regularly hear absurdities like jumping into postures breaks up cancer or headstands reverse gray hair.
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He allowed the contradictions in his own life to become identical to the absurdities of modern existence.
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But in their zeal to keep capital punishment running, the justices are increasingly twisting themselves into absurdities.
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"I am now working on a collection of short stories about the absurdities of life," she said.
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Perhaps it is absurd, but it was by such absurdities that we restored our dignity as men.
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It's a short, sweet, meditation on the absurdities of life and even, maybe, finding community where it lives.
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He fully commits to the movie's brooding absurdities, rendering its costume-party grimness tolerable, even entertaining at times.
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While "Squash" and other works evoke the intimacy of caretaking, they also betray the absurdities involved in it.
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You'll act out of instinct, even if it's distorted; Pisces are no strangers to the absurdities of life.
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The list of shutdowns includes such absurdities as the Women's Educational Equity Act, the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corp.
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MASCOTS Christopher Guest has shown us the absurdities in dog shows, community theater, folk music and movie awards.
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Vogel, a great observer of American absurdities, allows their relationship to develop against the commercial spectacle of Christmas.
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One of the pleasures of Trick Mirror is its tour of internet absurdities of the past few years.
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Always, a larger goal is in mind: the absurdities and bathos and impossibility of How We Live Now.
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This is about rejecting willful absurdities that equalize the very unequal in the name of art and consumption.
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He is the ultimate pivoter, aimlessly following his own impulses as his administration is mired in daily absurdities.
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As a novelist and a journalist, he has become perhaps the foremost observer of Pakistan's contradictions and absurdities.
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Every ingredient is packaged separately, resulting in absurdities like a single scallion arriving in its own plastic bag.
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Late capitalism—a catch-all term for the absurdities of an overgrown market economy—has suddenly come into vogue.
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It seems these absurdities will never end no matter how much we may shame irresponsible guardians or selfie-seekers.
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Corporate's attempts to hold a mirror up to the absurdities of office life are somewhat predictable and ultimately unenlightening.
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By nailing down the absurdities of the past, Winkler allows us to see how the future becomes more open.
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His satires on the absurdities of dictatorship, particularly 'Carnival Scenes' and 'The Oak,' are universal, ferocious and mordantly witty.
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Few match his skills at capturing and conveying onscreen the idiosyncrasies, awkwardness and absurdities of everyday conversation and life.
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Before enacting sweeping new gun prohibitions, we should remember the collateral damage and constitutional absurdities from previous federal crackdowns.
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Although absurdities abound in his tea ceremony, we execute them with utter reverence, treating them as nothing but convention.
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Lelio is acutely sensitive to the absurdities of everyday life, including the comedy of humiliation, both petty and wounding.
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The show will reportedly rely a lot on her keen ability to find the funny side of life's absurdities.
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As the AIDS crisis surges, "Pose" swings back and forth between funerals and celebrations, protests and pleasures, abuses and absurdities.
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Humor is a huge survival technique for marginalized people, and particularly queer humor is about exaggerations, about absurdities as well.
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Is it the sudden chorus of corporate panic, unleashing the various absurdities documented in Owen Williams' GDPR Hall of Shame?
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Heller served in World War II, and "Catch-20043" reflects the horrors and absurdities of war and its attendant bureaucracies.
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The pleasures of "On a Clear Day" are so intertwined with its absurdities that no theatrical version can separate them.
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As fairly customary, Glen is taking a tilt at the absurdities of the fuzzy, whizzy showbizyness of the art world.
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But the puppets, designed by Mr. Waage, have such distinctive personalities that the plot's absurdities rarely intrude on our enjoyment.
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But Mr. Carsen fills it with rowdy activity, an attempt, it would seem, to reveal the absurdities of aristocratic pretense.
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The classic Shakespearean fools were early Trumpish-speakers, summing up the absurdities of the main actors for the groundlings. Maybe.
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Indeed, exploring some of the absurdities of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has produced some brilliant, if dark, comedy.
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At the top, Costa excitedly pointed out all the stunning views of the entire North Zone, as well as its absurdities.
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Since then he has continued to explore some of the darker ironies, absurdities and tragedies of life in the American century.
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Behold: Now Maguire is spouting more absurdities in Paradise, but if he had it his way, he'd be the next Bachelor.
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Instead, it featured some of the least appealing work from either of them in a story that unfolded with escalating absurdities.
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Highlighting these absurdities, a Czech has declared the independent state of Liberland on a disputed patch on the Croatian-Serbian border.
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But, in fact, Böröcz's sensual conceptualism dealing with everyday absurdities derive most directly from his respect for art and manual labor.
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But none of the same lightheartedness and humanity, none of the same rigorous equidistance between the absurdities of right and left.
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The script itself eventually steps outside the artificial, insular world of the upper classes whose absurdities Wilde mapped so meticulously. Mrs.
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Performance artist David Sherry examines the absurdities of the social contract by subverting the accepted mores that supposedly make us human.
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Still, the story's details and absurdities clearly have personal resonance for Mr. Guare, whose name could easily be mispronounced as Gowery.
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And Larry, having helped ameliorate some of the screenplay's worst absurdities, announces that, in the big picture, those improvements don't matter.
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Since then, the Yes Men have staged dozens of attention-getting actions designed to make some of the world's absurdities unforgettable.
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The strong state goes back centuries in France, and its absurdities have been the butt of jokes for almost as long.
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As fairly customary, Glen Baxter is taking a tilt at the absurdities of the fuzzy, whizzy showbizyness of the art world.
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Then she ended with six Dvorak songs, charged settings of folk texts that recount the travails and absurdities of rural life.
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Cruel absurdities are a commonplace of life in the occupied territories, but nowhere are they quite as intense as in Hebron.
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Of all the absurdities of Mark Zuckerberg's more than ten hours of Congressional testimony this week, one moment of theater stands out.
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But this blur is particularly enjoyable, a concoction involving Hitler's dog, a Finnish guy's dog, Iraq and the absurdities of international relations.
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Getting rid of trial by combat was a good step but the Westerosi justice system still has some absurdities to work out.
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That is, their interest and direct engagement with the peculiarities, absurdities, and plain mundane-ness of everyday modern life – warts and all.
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Her writing came to be defined by Fluxus, a hybrid poetry-criticism that made Kafkaesque diversions into absurdities, absolutions, and non-sequiturs.
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This is rare among great artists, who palpably comprehend the absurdities of displacing reality with artifice, even as they do no less.
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After all, if we're going to live in this not-so-brave new world, we may as well laugh at its absurdities.
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He directs with a dry, Buñuelian touch, savoring small absurdities and letting the larger themes hover in the soft Orange County air.
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So like any good husband, I feel an obligation to vocalize all of the absurdities of a dragon-based, fantasy television show.
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But maybe that's not entirely surprising for a movie loosely about authenticity and the little absurdities that abound in New York City.
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His memoir, detailing the regime's absurdities and hypocrisies, was written during 13 months spent at the American Embassy after the Tiananmen massacre.
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It's just another preposterous part of living in 2019 — one that's quite telling about how quickly we accept new absurdities as our reality.
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But it's the gradual piling and eventual shucking of absurdities that makes the end of the second season so rewarding and, strangely, elegant.
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Shortly thereafter, she told a fan who complained about Williams' "lies" that the new platform would allow her to "address" such absurdities. Please!
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Despite being Pelosi's daughter, she conveys a sense of bemusement at the absurdities of politics, while seldom appearing to judge anyone too harshly.
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In our sad, dark reality, it can be important sometimes to stop, take a deep breath, and appreciate the wonderful absurdities around us.
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With his nasally voice and bits of slapstick, the humor of his performances came from how he stretched urban common knowledge into absurdities.
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This "liminal existence" enabled him to see the absurdities of the regime more clearly than any other figure within it, Mr. Ra wrote.
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The judge was almost done, but she was two words short of bringing an end to a long chain of folly and absurdities.
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Fountain is contrasting the (real) threats to freedom at home and abroad with the absurdities that politicians claim will safeguard those precious liberties.
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Pretty Woman doesn't try to reconcile the movie's absurdities and easy wish fulfillment with the brutal reality of the '90s or any other era.
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It would be easier to buy Jexi's more intentional absurdities if its reality wasn't so elastic, stretching to accommodate poorly staged large-scale slapstick.
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In just seven episodes, Big Little Lies unspooled a tense murder mystery and provided whip-smart commentary on the daily absurdities of family life.
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Mining firms claim to be obsessed with safety; in head offices, that can extend to absurdities like obliging visitors to hold on to handrails.
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In the process, the show has created a cult-like following in the region while simultaneously exposing the many absurdities of start-up culture.
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Kagan, who is as amused by the everyday absurdities of institutions as she is respectful of them, likes to share that anecdote with students.
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An epic consecrating empire's end, rather than its origins, this book-length poem sings of the absurdities, inanities, and injustices that pervade modern life.
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The artworks reflect the absurdities and humiliations of the Soviet life — the tragic contradictions between the official ideology of socialism and its everyday reality.
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We are perhaps lucky that in 2018, for all the awful policies and real horrors, our story is thick with plot holes and absurdities.
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This is another installment of SpicerWatch, an occasional dive into the absurdities of the White House press briefing and the media's obsession with spectacle.
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Somehow both charming and vile, Moscow-based animator Patiffonka's VFX-addled GIFs transform the schadenfreude of viral fail GIFs into sci-fi action movie absurdities.
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NonFiction People tend to think of crime and mystery stories as "escapist" literature, a way to hide from the atrocities and absurdities of real life.
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These stories itemize what we notice in the aftermath of disaster: the absurdities of television shows and advertisements, the people rendered invisible by their decline.
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Though she's famous for her big first novel, " The Last Samurai " (19853), her comedy, committed to serial absurdities, doesn't always flourish best in long forms.
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He tried to invent a visual and conceptual language that would be accessible for international audiences while addressing the themes of social and political absurdities.
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You might see a trace of Huck Finn in Zain — a wily, footloose boy whose wanderings illuminate the absurdities and horrors of the larger world.
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Like many veterans, I carry a deep desire to prevent another conflict like the invasion of Iraq, fueled by my understanding of the war's absurdities.
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Even amid an era of American politics rife with absurdities, President Donald Trump's posturing as a champion for people with preexisting medical conditions stands out.
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Legal experts quickly responded to the absurdities and inaccuracies of Trump's tweet, mostly about a violation of the nearly 50-year-old War Powers Act.
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The play is explicitly about the madness of crowds who come to believe transparent absurdities—and the audience comes in agreeing that the accusations are absurd.
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With their wide-ranging reportage, Walker and Szabłowski depict a postsocialist reality that is almost mind-bogglingly complex, rife with contradictions, absurdities, and arguments without end.
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Back in 2011, at the height of media Ryanolatry, the truth even became slightly mainstream, as reporters started to point out the absurdities of his assumptions.
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In the strongest work of the show, Mika Rottenberg also makes use of pop culture memes to engage the audience and display the absurdities of globalization.
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Everyone's favorite dramedy Orange is the New Black is at its best a show that never fails to pick apart the unfair absurdities of women's lives.
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Hiranandani ("The Whole Story of Half a Girl") does a remarkable job conveying the terrors and absurdities of the conflict in ways young readers can understand.
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Maher has an often thrillingly slant gaze, an eye alert to the absurdities, ironies and small tragedies at play in the manufacture of images and personas.
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Corbyn will leave Labour as a fright-wig tribute to 1970s-era Militant tendency with the worst absurdities of 2010s-era campus identity politics grafted on.
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It's also a clarifying example of the absurdities of the American winner-take-all two-party electoral system, rooted in the single-member, plurality-winner district.
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Instead, my friends use it as an affirmation while planning logistics, or a reaction to bawdy absurdities, or a too-on-the-nose reveling in good times.
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It would require a book length study to point out all of the absurdities in bank stock analysis so I will only point to a few here.
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These are Trump's "unspecialists"—anti-experts, candidates that would be laughed off as absurdities if we weren't living in the middle of a Philip K. Dick dystopia.
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This article chronicles, in painful detail, the absurdities of not only the legal black hole that was created, but also of the restrictions on reporting from there.
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Smuggling in elements of science-fiction, chase thriller, and ultra-deadpan comedy, the 2015 Cannes jury favorite is a disquieting riff on the absurdities of romantic relationships.
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But paradoxically, the sequel gets far less mileage than its predecessor out of the real-world absurdities of a target industry that takes itself so very seriously.
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At the end of each day's wanderings she hits the pinot noir and keeps her life's painful absurdities at bay by writing ridiculous musicals in her head.
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Certainly, Colbert seems electrified by the political crisis—in his opening monologue, he's obsessed, as so many of us are, by the latest absurdities out of Washington.
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Fortunately, I got the chance to reminisce with Eric about old times, past feelings, and the North America absurdities that seem just as shocking as his humor.
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Let's call it "Trump fatigue syndrome": the exhaustion you feel from trying to stay on top of the nonstop scandals and absurdities emanating from the Trump administration.
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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.
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And the absurdities in each make the horror all the more stark, with the ludicrous and the grim co-existing in a way that feels — well, very 2018.
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SAD is now one of the largest offshoots of Subtle Asian Traits, elucidating the absurdities and anxieties that come with dating as an Asian in a Western society.
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Los Angeles has its absurdities, but over the years, I've come to love it, mostly because of its divine honesty about itself (or what people now call authenticity).
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In response to an assured campaign by gun-control activists, fronted by some of Parkland's surviving students, the National Rifle Association and its mouthpieces have offered further absurdities.
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It's a radical diaspora Jewish group that has taken an explicitly non-Zionist stance, alongside satirizing the many absurdities of the British Jewish community, and throwing excellent parties.
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The result is a dark and upsetting but also funny-angry scrapbook of just a few of the atrocities and absurdities of the mid- to latter 20th century.
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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.
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Amid peppery dialogue and solid production values, the movie acknowledges show-business absurdities (green-screen emoting, the seeming ubiquity of people hawking their own scripts) with rueful affection.
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Other pieces targeted the snobbery of New York's social world, lampooned journalistic clichés and concocted playful absurdities, such as the pope giving battle orders to the Swiss Guard.
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Other pieces targeted the snobbery of New York's social world, lampooned journalistic clichés and concocted playful absurdities, such as the pope giving battle orders to the Swiss Guard.
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That reflects a similar shift in the author's storytelling priorities: Crosley has changed focus from the mild absurdities of day-to-day existence to quiet but universal devastations.
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"I thought he was extremely patient with President Trump, knowing how quickly he can respond to absurdities," Cardin told The New York Times in a report published Saturday.
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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.
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Featuring an excellent Lin-Manual Miranda as Dustin, the sketch does a great job of pointing out all the absurdities of the cult hit: Namely, where are the parents?
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She owns the absurdities and indignities of her stardom and her struggles with mental illness and addiction — in a way that makes them not just hilarious, but deeply relatable.
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Each work seems to exist in a sort of Twilight Zone, simultaneously indulging in absurdities that could never happen in our world while critiquing society as we know it.
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The executive, who is African-American, had seen her share of unconscious-bias absurdities, and recalled one in particular, a meeting about casting the role of a police chief.
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No place better illustrates the absurdities of the proliferating use of tax incentives for job creation than the Kansas City metro area, which straddles the Missouri-Kansas state line.
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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.
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This provocative multimedia survey ignores the established canon to propose that after the destructiveness of World War II, artists began to answer life's absurdities with more of the same.
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He's a filmmaker with a fondness for the absurdities of our existence and for people who have no idea that they're 'little' or teetering on the edge of disaster.
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Books of The Times As host of "The Daily Show," Trevor Noah comes across as a wry, startled and sometimes outraged outsider, commenting on the absurdities of American life.
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The funny, ravenous, and strange novels of Nell Zink look at American culture from the fringes, following activists and misfits as they contend with the absurdities of the modern world.
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Some of these images were taken for stories about video game violence, and some captured the absurdities of video game worlds — like the bodies piling in the doorway of Hitman.
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He has spent 17 years as an MEP highlighting the absurdities of undemocratic governmental bodies in Brussels, to the point where the public decided they had had enough of them.
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On Saturday, the U.S. Embassy in Havana released a video that showed Cuban comedian Panfilo joking with Obama about his visit and some of the absurdities of life in Cuba.
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All I knew was that the thought of letting the absurdities in my timeline go unchallenged left me feeling complicit, as if my silence would be mistaken for tacit agreement.
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Smith's poetry is about the shared human search—for justice, for remembrance, for national identity, or for the perfect Bowie song—amidst the cruelties of history and life's unforgiving absurdities.
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In this, his first nonfiction book, Keret focuses on the stretch of time between his son's birth and his father's death, and considers the absurdities of fatherhood and family life.
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This election needed a Democrat who could call out, again and again, the myriad hypocrisies and absurdities of Mr. Trump's claim to be a hero for the downtrodden working class.
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Still, this unlikely faction goes some way to explaining absurdities of the broader movement, which—for all its gross-out humor and ragged edges—appears to be gaining mainstream credibility.
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With tales that tease, then bite, he tackles the absurdities, injustices and corruption of a continent and is never intimidated by the "immensity of the darkness" of which he writes.
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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.
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Left-wing activists made him a socialist meme and antifa hero: a blue-collar monster, reclaimed from its marketing creators, fighting on behalf of workers against the absurdities of capitalism.
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There, she finds solace and strength in a band of other hilarious and misfit parents, who help temper the absurdities of raising children in a hypercompetitive and status-obsessed community.
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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.
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The title refers to the uneasy sensation of seeing something not-quite-human and not-quite-machine, but also the absurdities of the actual Valley in which technology is built.
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It would be difficult for a candidate who is not a true believer in absurdities like the Green New Deal or Medicare for All to out-shout Warren and Sanders.
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It also covers Fisher's mental illness, addiction, and the absurdities of Hollywood — including a fantastic anecdote in which George Lucas tries to convince Fisher that no one wears bras in space.
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These are the sort of bizarre absurdities you find yourself dealing with when forced to justify your rights to people who essentially have no interest in your well-being and health.
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The result has often been architectural absurdities: small houses standing in the midst of freeways, pedestrian malls, perched on concrete islands in the middle of pits excavated for underground parking lots.
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As Arthur delves into a fraught family history, we encounter questions about how to live without contradictions (Ethan ponders ancient-Greek ethics in his bougie apartment) and riffs on current absurdities.
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Exposures of Trump's misdeeds and absurdities that arouse liberal opinion are easily interpreted as attacks by the corrupt elite on the defender of the little man, in fact his cynical enemy.
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"While art/humor can be used to call out absurdities and make commentary, I think it's important to be mindful of the reality of the situation and who is being affected."
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Alex and Michael, the white heterosexual couple in "Amongst the Liberal Elite," have framed a summer road trip as an act of resistance, one of many absurdities in this overflowing satire.
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Gareth Liddiard's biting poetic absurdities and witty sneers turned him into an icon back home in Australia, where The Drones are regarded as one of the greatest indie bands of all time.
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" Seething with black humor and adolescent anger at the adult world and its brutal absurdities, "Milkman" wedges itself too deeply in middle sister's psyche to resemble a wandering city novel like " Ulysses .
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Mostly, it's a guide about sorting out legit priorities from the wedding industry's diamond-studded nonsense by offering some much-needed real talk about the absurdities brides face when planning a wedding.
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Speaking of a hazy distinction between truth and evil, the writers have both drawn upon and heightened the absurdities of the actual U.S. primaries while scripting debates for upcoming Season 5 episodes.
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It also can make for absurdities on both sides, with teams who cultivate an "ultras" culture punishing anyone who runs afoul of an explicit code of conduct published on the league's website.
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They found ways around the imposed absurdities by using euphemisms or codes in their paintings to outwit censors, or by refusing to publicly exhibit their work, only showing it in their homes.
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There were still some over-the-top look-at-me absurdities; explosions of woman-eating tulle and trains so long the wearer looked like the Little Engine That Could, tugging them along.
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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.
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Some recent manosphere rant or manifesto is held up for inspection and then broken down into snippets and interspersed with Futrelle's commentary, designed to bring the absurdities of the target into view.
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The slender novel—which only recently appeared here, in a translation by David Boyd—draws on the author's experience as a temp, cataloging the absurdities of corporate life with an anthropological eye.
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World Wide W.E.B., which continues L.O.T.I.O.N.'s techno-dystopian aesthetic and focus on the absurdities of war, fascism, and digital control, is a seriously raging comment on violence and subservience to capitalist technology.
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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.
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Even its standard talking-head segments are peppered with compelling absurdities: a self-described chaos magician laying out how memes become reality, a 4channer proudly guiding viewers through his dingy bedroom's utter squalor.
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Force Majeure's director, Ruben Östlund — who in 2017 won the Palme d'Or at Cannes for his subsequent film, The Square — makes pitch-black comedies about the absurdities inherent in human societies and relationships.
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Real heads know Dipset general Cam'ron is just as funny off his records as on, and a new web series called "Giles Investigation" is capturing the finer absurdities of his persona in the wild.
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EARLIER this month, in a column in a state-owned newspaper entitled "The Truth behind the Northern Rakhine Issue", a retired general decided to rebut the "absolute absurdities" he had read in the international media.
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With careful attention Ms Uglow gets to the heart of a man who found joy in the absurdities of life and whose enjoyment of people and the world around him saved him from "the morbids".
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If the script has an over-reliance on direct address and observation, it still conveys Mr. Keret's casually mordant worldview, his sense that fiction so often palls before the absurdities of everyday life (2111:71893).
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If the script has an over-reliance on direct address and observation, it still conveys Mr. Keret's casually mordant worldview, his sense that fiction so often palls before the absurdities of everyday life (1:30).
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I've spent the last few days digging into these questions, because the shortages of protective gear, particularly face masks, has struck me as one of the more disturbing absurdities in America's response to this pandemic.
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WIRED'S editors and writers will be at the annual consumer tech trade show all week seeking out the latest trends, products, services, oddities, and absurdities that will help set the tone for technology in 20203.
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The alt-light figures that became celebrities during this period made their careers exposing the absurdities of online identity politics and the culture of lightly thrown claims of misogyny, racism, ableism, fatphobia, transphobia and so on.
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Scenes in a funeral home — a place too many in this community had recently, prematurely visited — became a chance to find a moment's shared relief in gentle laughter with neighbors at the painful absurdities of life.
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The hypothesis survived the absurdities of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s and early 2000s, as well as the meltdown in derivative markets that led to the global financial crisis in 2007 and 2008.
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Through a series of hilariously detailed anecdotes that included a chihuahua in a top hat riding on roller skates, among other absurdities, Jones was inspired to create the adventures of Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner.
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As he adjusts gamely to his diminishing circumstances over more than three decades, Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov manages to view the absurdities of both the decadent czarist past and the earnest Bolshevik present with wry detachment.
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VICE sat down with Iannucci last year at the Toronto International Film Festival where the film premiered to talk about his comedic approach to such dark material and his persistent interest in the absurdities of politics.
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" AND NOW, A WORD FROM CHARLES… "Given their arrogance, pomposity and habitual absurdities, it is hard not to feel a certain satisfaction with the comeuppance that Brexit has delivered to the unaccountable European Union bureaucrats in Brussels.
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Those absurdities are present in the silliness of what she, as a consultant, is paid to do: to recommend huge, unpopular cost-cutting measures that executives are unwilling to do themselves, at the expenses of people's livelihoods.
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If "Going for Broke" explored the absurdities of being broke—holding desperately onto what one has until payday arrives—then this week's episode is a more surrealist, dream-like state, the heady effect of for-real poverty.
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Above all, his years of drudging at the dictionary had taught him humility: he knew he was sure to commit "a few wild blunders, and risible absurdities, from which no work of such multiplicity was ever free".
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The crisis of American adolescence may be the result of possessing a fully functional brain before it gets beaten out of you by horrible jobs, crappy television and the currently endless absurdities of two-party electoral politics.
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Most clearly don't understand his music or his persona, and as they earnestly try to fit him into their Interviewing 101 boxes, he underscores news-media absurdities merely by playing it straight rather than bursting out laughing.
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The writer-director Atsuko Hirayanagi isn't selling a packaged idea about what it means to be human; she does something trickier and more honest here, merely by tracing the ordinary absurdities and agonies of one woman's life.
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D'Aita knew that Masu and the other members of his art collective, Alterazioni Video, made work that concerned political absurdities, and she thought they might take an interest in the town's strange landscape of forgotten public works.
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Banking on an easy impeachment or resignation or a shiny set of handcuffs is incredibly tempting for those drained and depressed by Trump's unabated absurdities, perversions of truth and facts and assaults on custom, normalcy and civility.
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"It's a radical diaspora Jewish group that has taken an explicitly non-Zionist stance, alongside satirizing the many absurdities of the British Jewish community and throwing excellent parties," according to a founder of the group, Joseph Finlay.
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Between the Russia investigation, Trump's public musings of pardoning himself and his family members, and a feud with the First Lady of Japan, it's a race to the bottom in terms of absurdities coming from the White House.
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And by the time I'm writing this, people have shifted their focus back to Republicans' final attempt at an Obamacare repeal, making the absurdities of Trump's speech just a few hours prior seem like they happened six months ago.
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Only in a campaign of near daily absurdities and broken taboos could a sitting governor, Kentucky Republican Matt Bevin, muse at length but without much notice over "whose blood" will be shed in the aftermath of his candidate's loss.
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These unexpectedly lyrical conversations make the point that climate change is as much a tale of the absurdities of human psychology, and the contradictions that it can tolerate, as it is about rainforests, oil deposits, eco-systems and emissions.
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For every ginned-up hypothetical scenario of spoiled brats having a sit-in to protest too many white guys in the lit course, there are very real cases where trigger warnings or safe spaces aren't absurdities, but pedagogical imperatives.
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It instead digs out the absurdities of being wealthy (or adjacent to wealth) around the turn of the 19903th century — the affectations, the frills that cover up the crudeness of real life, and above all, the vast, unmitigated boredom.
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At the time of the searches, prominent Russian cultural figures had defended Mr. Serebrennikov — then a witness — fearing that the raids signaled attempts by conservatives to limit artistic freedom in response to his sardonic depictions of absurdities in Russia.
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Miguel Arteta, working from a screenplay by Mike White, "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 New York Times.
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Her political and cultural fluency, as well as her deep familiarity with the landscape, allow her to become "a human ear" as Svetlana Alexievich calls it, recording the tragic absurdities of daily life that give way to dark humor.
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Though the eulogy is modelled on classical stoic death scenes reaching back to Plato's Phaedo, its originality lies in Montaigne's honest reporting of the comic absurdities of his friend's passing, and of his own emotional ambivalence at his death.
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It wasn't supposed to be dismissive of the major issues of the election, just a wry acknowledgment of all the absurdities we had narrowly avoided, and a celebration of the jokes that kept us afloat during 20 months of escalating fear.
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After a sold-out run in 2016, South of Market: The Musical returns to San Francisco this fall with v2 of the musical revue that pokes fun at the year's trends, issues and absurdities within the Bay Area's tech culture.
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The absurdities of the justice system went straight into the court scenes in The Stranger, while the squabbling violence he saw between Europeans and Arabs partly inspired the book's main plot device and thematic hinge: the killing of an Arab.
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He built it using the philosophy that music is all just music and nothing is off limits; it's a bold collage of immaculately and seamlessly sequenced music that seems flirt and celebrate the idea of working with contradictions, absurdities, and ridiculousness.
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At Towson University he formed a chapter of Youth for Western Civilization, because he felt that white students needed an organization that would not only speak for them, but also expose the alleged absurdities of affirmative action and political correctness.
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Some of Mr. Fair's descriptions of Abu Ghraib and the National Security Agency facilities at Camp Victory recall the absurdities of "Catch-22" and "Animal Farm," but here the sense of the absurd is infused with real horror and injustice.
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Within the Lutheran family, the "mainline" Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (yes, the "Evangelical Lutherans" are mainline, not evangelical; one of many absurdities in religious verbiage) is shrinking rapidly while "evangelical" Wisconsin or Missouri Synod Lutherans are either holding steady or shrinking slowly.
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And while Noah is deft at exposing and ridiculing the incongruities and absurdities of a racist state, he never quite turns the corner into a full-fledged critique of the idea of race itself—something his own biography would seem to beg for.
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Thomas Lux, a poet who used spare, direct language to express the absurdities and sorrows of human life, and whose 21990 collection, "Split Horizon," won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, one of the most lucrative prizes in American poetry, died on Feb.
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By now, anyone who cares about "Twin Peaks" has had time to digest the mysteries, absurdities, and brain-busting oddities of parts one through four, which may make the "here's a bunch of new scenes" approach of this week's episode easier to process.
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She laughed at the absurdities that often swirled around her, including those moments in the produce aisle at Whole Foods when shoppers would prescribe her unsolicited "cures," telling her to eat more pineapple or that a mushroom cleanse would take care of everything.
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Mr. Papaioannou and Mr. Oyen have acquitted themselves with honor in an impossible task: retaining their own identities while creating pieces that satisfy audiences who love Wuppertal's distinctive performers and Bausch's episodic, tragicomic evocations of the absurdities and obsessions of daily life.
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Her treasure trove of an Instagram account includes digital manipulations (President Trump watching the eclipse through KKK-inspired glasses), mock documentaries (the fictitious hijab brand Fardaous Funjab), as well as real-world absurdities (a shopper walking her balloon Dachshund through a Dubai mall).
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My colleague Sarah Jeong followed the saga of Trusty Support, a Twitter Support parody account that has been, as she wrote, "lampooning the absurdities of the Report Abuse system" by tweeting about the network's canned and automated responses to harassment and death threats.
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In Canada's war on science, much of the vital momentum the pro-science movement built — including a huge slice of the media coverage it received — came via individual scientists telling heartfelt stories about their experiences and journalists detailing the small, striking absurdities being endured.
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Powered by a silky retro-R&B score, the musical delights with its loopy idea for longer than you might expect, but as the plot sprouts more absurdities, it ultimately begins to feel like an overextended "Saturday Night Live" sketch (albeit a good one).
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After her "Star Wars" success, Ms. Fisher, the daughter of the pop singer Eddie Fisher and the actress Debbie Reynolds, went on to use her perch among Hollywood royalty to offer wry commentary in her books on the paradoxes and absurdities of the entertainment industry.
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President Trump's outrages, absurdities and indelicacies arrive with such frequency that they numbingly blur together, and to focus and comment on each is to give him too much of what he thrives on — attention — and be debilitated by his dominance of your thoughts and passions.
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Part of that's just due to the setup—a monkey murderer is inherently funnier than a serial killer possessed by an otherworldly force of pure evil—but credit is also due to the script itself, which Lynch packs full of sideways jokes and gleeful absurdities.
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As the novel goes on, Beatty keeps riffing on all of the absurdities and logical impossibilities that white supremacy asks us to believe, in ever spikier and funnier and more obscene passages that just get angrier and angrier as they get funnier and funnier.
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Looking back at Gulliver's first ever post, the recurrent theme of many recent ones—namely the absurdities of poorly thought-out business practices, often accompanied by ill-judged government regulations—was clearly there at the start: Upgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks.
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Larry Sanders was an unprecedented look at the absurdities of the late-night game, but was also a groundbreaking subgenre of reality-bending adult pathos comedy, the likes of which would reverberate for years in shows like 30 Rock, The Office, Arrested Development, Community and beyond.
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Reading this novel has all the pleasures of reading one of Anne Tyler's compelling family portraits — but transported from Baltimore to Brooklyn, peopled with aging hipsters (instead of perennially middle-aged folks) and doused with a Lorrie Moore-like sense of the absurdities of contemporary life.
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In " The Impossible Indian " (2012), Faisal Devji, the most stimulating of recent writers on Gandhian thought, calls him "one of the great political thinkers of our times"—an assessment not cancelled out by the stringent account of Gandhi's fads, follies, and absurdities frequently offered by his critics.
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With Trump now tweeting anti-Northam absurdities, with no stirring wedge or winning education issue, with no resource advantage, with the polls showing voters generally okay with McAuliffe's record, and with no contemporary Virginia Republicans as role models, the historical markers are all lined up against Gillespie.
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An outdoor sculpture by the Iraqi-Kurdish artist Hiwa K — a kind of honeycomb-style refugee shelter — qualifies, too, though it's a video by this artist on view in the Kassel Stadtmuseum, about the Kafkaesque absurdities of trying to find shelter, that is the real must-see.
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Among other things, "Future Sex" offers a superb account of the absurdities of San Francisco in the first half of this decade, a bouncy castle of a city where the private pleasures of the conquering tech class are construed (and marketed) as social benefits for all.
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The oddities and absurdities extended beyond the music too—in an abandoned tractor trailer, attendees could watch video artist Maya Ben David's "We've Met Before," which paired a slowcore version of traditional Scottish folk tune "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" with distorted CGI anime footage.
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After a week punctuated by daily presidential absurdities -- from insulting the Danish prime minister, to escalating the trade war with China, to attacking the Fed Chairman Jerome Powell -- an organization I thought would stand in strong opposition to President Donald Trump caved under the weight of his power.
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Cards Against Humanity, which launched in 2012 thanks to a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign, has evolved into a proper business, and that success has allowed the company formed by Temkin and his collaborators to pull off all sorts of stunts that often toy with the absurdities of capitalism.
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Particularly in works such as "The Death of Rubén Salazar" (1986), "The Closing of Whittier Boulevard" (1984), and the more comical, certainly ironic, "The Arrest of the Paleteros" (1996), the artist writ large the tragedies and absurdities of being an American of Mexican heritage in the vast LA metropolis.
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We see the shoddy underpinnings of our construction of gender norms in pre-adolescent girls who forsake dresses for jeans, the absurdities of a teacher making gendered assumptions of elementary school children, and an extended sequence dedicated to a young working African American woman who's acutely aware of her double bind.
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In a profile of Mr. Jackson in The New York Times Magazine in February, Vinson Cunningham wrote: "To the extent that 21st-century literary audiences have been introduced to the realities and absurdities born of the phenomenon of race in America, Jackson has done a disproportionate amount of that introducing."
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It seemed to me, however, that despite that implied thematic goal, the showrunners really just wanted to see how far they could desperately stretch the absurdities of the show, of the actions of their beloved weirdos, instead of really trying to say anything meaningful about their suffering or coping mechanisms.
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McCraney, a formidable playwright (his "Choir Boy" is currently on Broadway) and an Oscar winner for "Moonlight," has composed a densely layered, intellectually demanding agitprop drama that draws on rabble-rousing theatrical traditions (Clifford Odets, Dario Fo) while fixing its gaze squarely on the injustices and absurdities of the present.
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The political imperative to cut net migration to Britain led to absurdities such as expelling international students once they graduate and monstrosities such as the Windrush scandal, in which children of Caribbean migrants who came to Britain between 1948-71 and who were legally resident in the country were threatened with deportation.
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So part of the inspiration behind this project as an artist, as someone who works in the cultural domain, was: How do you switch over the metaphors and the cultural landscape that men and women operate in, and how do you call to light the absurdities of power and bodies in politics?
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Back in 1999, the words "income inequality" were not on the lips of every economist, pundit and politician, and Ms. Mode's dizzy riff on the absurdities of scoring a table at a fashionable restaurant could be enjoyed for what it was: a biting (sorry) comedy about the loopiness of the flowering foodie culture.
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But that night, from the comfortable certainty of two pink lines to the thousand little absurdities of actual life making (isn't it wild that a nurse is just, like, at work and you are having the worst day of your life, in the same room?!), I realized I was no longer afraid.
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The basic dynamic continues, with the struggling Ruth (Alison Brie) full of big ideas -- seizing this shot to perform, even if it's in the circus tent of showbiz -- while her ex-pal Debbie (Betty Gilpin), a one-time soap opera star, chafes at the gig's absurdities, but with her marriage breaking up, increasingly needs it.
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His work, which has also been featured in the New York Times Magazine and exhibited around the world, captures the everyday absurdities of life—a single log with the word "FREE" spray painted on it, a pair of jeans labeled "Daddy'$ Money," a billboard with the words "SYPHILIS EXPLOSION" set against a backdrop of an erupting volcano.
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Isn't It Romantic is the movie representation of watching a classic rom-com with your friends: You laugh at the dumb tropes (who runs out to get coffee with a friend in the middle of the day, 40 blocks away from where they work?), point out the absurdities (who wears prom-level formal wear on a date
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By turns thoughtful and irreverent and darkly funny, that book possessed an electric immediacy — a you-are-there sense of what it was like to be a grunt in the hot desert sands outside Baghdad, hunting for I.E.D.'s and bomb factories, negotiating with local sheikhs and frightened civilians, and grappling with the absurdities of military bureaucracy.
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Ferrell was speaking to CNBC in London about his new film Zoolander No. 2, a sequel to the movie on the absurdities of the fashion world – replete with bouffant hairstyles and outrageous outfits—which also stars Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Penelope Cruz, Kristen Wiig, Justin Theroux (who co-wrote the film) and Ferrell in lead roles.
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Over the years the strip has come to focus on the experiences of two main characters, Abe and Garcia, who in many ways are foul-mouthed millennial updates on Willie and Joe, Bill Mauldin's comic-strip characters of World War II. Garcia is likable and reasonable, a Marine who accepts the corps' absurdities, indignities and tedium in stride.
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This new Emma doesn't play too fast and loose with the story or its most familiar beats, but it digs out the absurdities of being wealthy (or adjacent to wealth) around the turn of the 19th century — the affectations, the frills that cover up the crudeness of real life, and above all, the vast, unmitigated boredom.
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This Canadian sketch comedy show starring the "baronesses" Aurora Browne, Meredith MacNeill, Carolyn Taylor and Jennifer Whalen crosses the border, bringing with it "bite-size observations on the micro-absurdities and macro-neuroses of modern life," Katrina Onstad wrote in The Times — things like Fitbit tyranny, the way moms say hello and product design for women.
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Her whatever-works mentality -- which includes finding a female date for a gay-rights event, never mind that she isn't a lesbian -- is mirrored by hard-partying colleague Eve (Lydia Wilson), while a wide-eyed intern (Rebecca Benson) presents a grounded counterpoint to the absurdities these veterans of the PR wars accept without batting an eyelash.
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Overdubbing internet videos for laughs is a venerable pastime, from the absurdities put into the mouths of politicians by the Bad Lip Reading team to the "shred" videos of the last decade, which make it seem as though guitar heroes, pop bands and some of classical music's leading lights produce outrageous, ear-grating cacophonies from their instruments.
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From Pink Flamingos—in which our thin-eyebrowed protagonist literally eats dog shit—to my lowkey favorite Serial Mom, where a friendly suburban housewife decides to go on a rampage and murder everyone that pisses her off, Waters has built a career out of holding a mirror up to society's absurdities and making you laugh and gasp at the same time.
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Fomented by the unstable, frightening reality of the Cold War and the expansion of the military-industrial complex; inspired by the various liberation movements and variously aided by the counterculture's psychotropic drugs and new artistic mediums (especially video), these artists answered life's absurdities with more of the same, taking leave of reason in art since it already seemed gone from life.
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Mr. Bowman, who called the White House letter "a parade of absurdities," noted that impeachment is just one of the powers granted to Congress so "if you took the White House argument seriously, it would mean that there has to be a vote" before any House committee could begin hearings on legislation related to interstate commerce, budgets or even establishing post offices.
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Related: Carrie Fisher, 'Star Wars'' Princess Leia, dies at 60 Yet she always appeared a reluctant star, more comfortable in the role of court jester -- maintaining a sense of bemusement over both her upbringing and little items like the gold bikini she modeled in "Return of the Jedi," thoughts she articulated in free-wheeling fashion by writing about the absurdities of her privileged perch.
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Front pages of Indian newspapers have been carrying accounts detailing the absurdities in the list — a 6-year-old who has been left out even though his twin is on the list, a 72-year-old woman who is the only one in her family to be left off, a 13-year-old boy whose parents and sisters are on the list but he is not.
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His composer is so given to bellyaching and navel-gazing, however, that the novel gains power and resonance when it steps outside its hero's head, and instead uses Shostakovich's story to probe such favorite themes as the relativity of history and the subjectivity of experience (the same themes that animated earlier Barnes novels like "The Porcupine" and "A History of the World in 10½ Chapters"), and to chronicle the absurdities that artists suffer under totalitarianism.
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There are certain connotations associated with chumak and makgulli, parallel to the western myth of the suffering male artist, who, tormented by the force of his own creativity and by the paralyzing, incomprehensible absurdities of the world that suppress him, finds, in the sweet oblivion of alcohol (and in the equally mystifying and unfathomable thing called woman) a warm solace, a respite from narcissism and self-pity, a fleeting yet sure-fire corporeal comfort.
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This is the Carnival Ball for the Krewe of Vaporwave—a "krewe" being the local lingo for one of more than 248 private clubs whose members tug their parades through the city streets over the weeks ahead of Mardi Gras; and Vaporwave being the term for a musical genre born on the internet that came to embody a broader aesthetic movement, a cross-stitching of cultural symbols that, like Mardi Gras itself, mocks power and makes clear life's absurdities.
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Over the last decade and a half, Jackson has ushered into being the works of category-defying novelists like Victor LaValle and Mat Johnson, polemicist-experientialists like Coates and the civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson and pop-cultural vanguardists like the chef-memoirist Eddie Huang and the rapper-entrepreneur Jay Z. To the extent that 13st-century literary audiences have been introduced to the realities and absurdities born of the phenomenon of race in America, Jackson has done a disproportionate amount of that introducing.
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The Talent Show wasn't all about music — it also featured comedy sets from Aparna Nancherla, whose musings about New York winters and anxiety you can find bits and pieces of here; Jacqueline Novak, whose riveting monologue about french fries will probably change the way you share food with your friends if you ever get to hear it; 2 Dope Queens podcast co-host Phoebe Robinson, who devoted several minutes of her set to the absurdities of the Kingsman: Secret Service; and Mike Birbiglia, who, while discussing his bumpy path to fatherhood, somehow made talk of sperm and pornography sound sorta wholesome.
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