Word: superealism
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...elder Akpan’s first love, however, was soccer. The Nigerian national team of his youth, nicknamed the ‘Super Eagles,’ had not yet evolved into the World Cup contender of the early ’90s, and so young Nigerian boys cast their eyes west to Brazil, where Péle was capturing the world’s imagination...
...Saturday to participate in Multiplay 01, Harvard’s inaugural video- and computer-game tournament. The event offered free food and over four hundred dollars worth of prizes, including a Nintendo Wii. It featured tournaments in four games selected by an informal popularity poll: “Super Smash Brothers Melee,” “Halo,” “Starcraft: Brood War,” and “Warcraft: Defense of the Ancients.” Other games were available for casual play. Prizes were awarded to winners of each of the official...
...Denenberg stoically overcame the furious shots and circus antics of Mihai Nichifor to win 7-6, 4-6, 10-5. Denenberg won the concluding super-tiebraker going away while his opponent amused the crowd and angered the officials with groans, curses, and a brief dropping of his shorts...
...those eponymous American water toys amid swirls of color that is smeared and partially erased. Or a canvas in which cuddly cartoon characters frolic in the snow beneath the work's menacing title, maybe you should annihilate (1993), in large, blood red letters. Other paintings include cameos by Super Mario Brothers, Lara Croft, the Road Runner, the General Electric logo and a giant Nike sneaker...
While I enjoy my super-sized fries and wireless internet as much as the next American, I also recognize that the United States is far from being the exemplary society to which all others should aspire. We have the largest per capita prison population of any nation in the world. Many Americans still struggle to make ends meet, and the Americans who do “make it” often find that their material success doesn’t translate into happiness or even contentedness. Most Americans are overweight, which is symbolic of the fact that although we make...