7. Johnny Kelly Johnny Dangerouslyy, 1984) 20th Century Fox The madcap mob-spoof combined the manic energy Keaton brings to the screen with a pitch-perfect slapstick absurdity, and the result was a cult classic that still holds up thirty years later.
Mr. Jacobson, whose novel "The Mighty Walzer," a comic coming-of-age story about an adolescent Ping-Pong champion, will be published in the United States next year, said that the sport was well suited to writers because it was "perfect mock-heroic, absurdity in grandeur and grandeur in absurdity".
The irony is that, from a comedic standpoint, scientific talks are the perfect opportunities for absurdity because it's so unexpected.
The Times thought Olivier's Astrov "a most distinguished portrait" and Richardson's Vanya "the perfect compound of absurdity and pathos".
The first three productions met with acclaim from reviewers and audiences; Uncle Vanya had a mixed reception, although The Times thought Olivier's Astrov "a most distinguished portrait" and Richardson's Vanya "the perfect compound of absurdity and pathos".
"Jen's gift is for comedy that resonates, and sadnesses that arise with perfect timing from absurdities," Jean Thompson wrote here in 1999.
Andrei Tarkovsky's last film, from 1986, is a grand, unworldly, even antiworldly religious vision that depends on its perfect pitch to avoid absurdity and bathos.
In early plays such as The Bald Prima Donna and The Chairs, Eugène Ionesco found perfect metaphors for the absurdity of bourgeois life or the human condition at large.
My first reaction upon hearing about Nokia's 41-megapixel 808 Pureview was that it was an absurdity, a perfect example of the very worst of consumer electronics, and a total miss.
"Man Is Not a Bird" (1966) weaves documentary techniques into a banal fictional story about a love triangle; it blasts the absurdity of a "perfect" Communist world that ignores the individuals who populate it.
