Word: illusionality
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QUESTION: But do you think that the obvious unreality of the process and set-painting in Marnie could be interpreted as a sign of Marnie's world of illusion?
It was only two days later, as another stiffling afternoon began to cool down a little, that the nearby East New York section of Brooklyn blew. Calm had rested on the city like a highly flammable illusion through the record-breaking heat of early July. The Mayor's Office moved...
In London to film a quickie called Two Weeks in September, Brigitte Bardot explained that the theme was "love -the greatest illusion. It is ecstatic, painful and hopeless at the same time." Well, maybe, but following her around, B.B.'s new husband and Great Love No. 3, German Playboy...
Family Reunion. He was something of a character himself. To his children, N.C. seemed "a combination of Paul Bunyan and Santa Claus"; to keep that illusion alive, he would risk his neck each Christmas Eve to stomp noisily atop the icy roof of their house. To his neighbors near Chadds...
In the first novels from abroad, the explorations are cautious but skillful. The Time of the Hero (Grove Press) by Mario Vargas Llosa, 28, a Paris-based Peruvian, is a social satire so harrowingly powerful that 1,000 copies were publicly burned in Lima. Vargas sets up the national military...