Word: nightmarish
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Overcoming administration angst, mayoral meddling and the Massachusetts fiscal crisis, the logistically nightmarish annual aquatic bash known as the Head of the Charles is back...
...more than anything else, the Mem Hall happening means I'm back at home. I'm back at Harvard, the one place where I can finally escape being asked the one nightmarish question that's dogged me--and many other Harvard students--all summer long...
...Flatliners, curiously enough, is both a horrific and well-made film. There is an uncharacteristic clarity to director Joel Schumacher's nightmarish visions of life and death. His surrealistic work treats complex themes of retribution and atonement in a intelligent and thoughtful manner. Flatliners is a fantastic, satisfying work that--if not one of the season's most elegant films--is certainly one of the most evocative...
Buying bargain imports, though, is smart, very smart. In Elizabeth, N.J., the grand opening of IKEA's 6.2-acre furniture store in May created nightmarish gridlock usually seen only for the nearby Giants football games. More than 25,000 eager shoppers heading for the Swedish-owned store jammed the New Jersey Turnpike, and 200 others camped in the parking lot overnight to get first crack at the firm's $39 bookcases, $7 rag rugs, $98 pine beds and other basic furnishings. Parents could drop off their children in a play area supervised by store employees before turning to serious shopping...
Fortunately for Poole, and for Thomas Palmer's second novel, a way out eventually materializes. What could have become a drawn-out absurdist melodrama with yuppie trappings veers instead into an adventure story with nightmarish resonances. Poole is at first willing to suppose that his imprisonment was simply a bad dream. After all, he reappears in his suburban house to find that his wife Carmen has not noticed his absence. Another explanation occurs to Poole: he is going bonkers...