Word: surreal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...front, however, the vision may be bright enough to blot out last year's surreal horror show of missed shots, fanned shots and no shots. Six--count 'em--six freshmen will grace the four-line offense ("We went with three lines in the past because the depth wasn't there"--Cleary), and the rookies are supposed to be slick, speedy, and most important, goal-hungry. The new names--Greg Britz, Rob Burns, David Connors, Greg Olson (Mitch's brother), Neil Sheehy (brother of the NHLer), Jim Turner--join old names like Burke, Mike Watson, Tom Murray and Bob McDonald...
...work histories'' of the compositions, that their valuable book adumbrates the shape of many biographies and studies to come. It also reflects their recovery of a number of Webern manuscripts-characteristically neat, finely etched documents in which individual notes range over the staves with a kind of surreal wit, as in some calligraphic drawing by Paul Klee...
Perelman's cosmopolitan imagination had a definite surreal twist to it. In "low dudgeon," he viewed the world's quirky moving parts as threats to his safety, sanity and solvency. Acres and Pains was a 1947 collection of mock-Thoreauvian japes inspired by the author's four dec ades of semirustication on 100 stony acres in Bucks County, Pa. His definition of a gentleman's farm: "An irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city...
Shocks of a more surreal nature follow. When Willard meets up with a bump-and-grind U.S.O. show in the proverbial middle of nowhere, Coppola creates a haunting spectacle of corrupt American values loose in an alien world. Later, Willard encounters a platoon of spaced-out black G.I.s who are shooting aimlessly into the night without benefit of a commanding officer. "It's the asshole of the world," says one fleeing soldier. Coppola's eerie visions, sculpted out of smoke, fire and darkness, make the words real...
...horror, the surreal banality of these events is subordinated to a larger ethic: survival through storytelling. In Greece, the land of Homer, men classically reach immortality not by living a Christian life and going to Heaven, but through kleos, the everlasting glory conferred on men through poetry, heroic actions, and the telling of tales. They become, in effect, the defeaters of The theme is enlarged upon until finally, the boy, almost grown, decides, all "stories are good. Even if a story is about death, it's a good story. But death itself is not, there is no death that...