Word: surreal
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...Future college classes might name the O. J. Simpson trial, the death of Princess Diana or of John Kennedy Jr., or perhaps Oklahoma City or Columbine, all events that were real enough but also unreal, or surreal, because experienced as a cloud of hyped-up, noisy electrons coalescing on a screen at home, interrupted by commercials. Maybe the class of 2015 will say that their most important public memory - their defining moment of civic awareness - was Bill Clinton wagging that long, bony finger and saying, "I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this one more...
...whole affair, including NBC with its gimmicky "Bush Proposal" signs after each new announcement and its constant inadvertent shots up women's dresses, bordered on the surreal. But, funny as the event was, I would be remiss if I didn't mention the other lesson that could be learned from watching the speech: Bush is doing well. Very well...
...DIED. RODOLFO MORALES, 75, mild-mannered Mexican painter whose colorful, surreal renderings of everyday rural Mexico won international acclaim; in Oaxaca, Mexico. Wary of fame, Morales returned to the dusty Indian village where he grew up and spent the last 16 years of his life using money earned from his works to restore the crumbling monuments of his homeland and promote Mexican art and culture...
...looking sharp in a Yohji Yamamoto suit amid the third-rate chaos swirling around him. That's how most Japanese want to see themselves. Their nation has become an economic and political farce. Feckless, forgettable Prime Ministers come and go. The moribund economy has come to resemble more the surreal vision of Salvador Dali than the sound blueprint of Adam Smith. And for the first time since World War II, the average Japanese faces the prospect of a diminishing standard of living. It's third-rate chaos, alright, and all you want to do if you're young and cool...
...news seems agitated. It arrives in surreal and disturbed condition - a notch stranger than its usual agitated banality. The surreal can be hilarious, too, of course. I have before me a headline from the Wednesday Business section of the New York Times: "TRADE FEUD ON BANANAS NOT AS CLEAR AS IT LOOKS." I challenge any of you to improve on that...