Pinter is often lumped together with the theater of the absurd, although that's not quite right.

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For even more theater of the absurd, consider that the TSA screens pilots.

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His spirit must have been in Washington last week where Congress and Goldman Sachs performed in the Theater of the Absurd.

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"It's really theater of the absurd, " says Edward FitzGerald, a former FBI agent who won the position of Cuyahoga County executive after fed-up residents here disbanded the old county commission form of government under Mr. Dimora.

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The trappings of security theater, like giving grandma an aggressive pat-down, are already absurd in their own right.

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