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...auditorium that normally features Augustscholars of law, McMahon's performance seemedalmost surreal...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wrestling Promoter Defends Rowdy Style | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

Godel, in thinking very carefully about this rather surreal scenario, soon realized that the property of being M.P. was not all that different from such familiar notions as "prime number," "odd number" and so forth. Thus earthbound number theorists could, with their standard tools, tackle such questions as, "Which numbers are M.P. numbers, and which are not?" for example, or "Are there infinitely many non-M.P. numbers?" Advanced math textbooks--on Earth, and in principle on Mars as well--might have whole chapters about M.P. numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mathematician KURT GODEL | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...tournament ever to defeat a top seed in NCAA basketball history. But sometimes a team is special not because of one spectacular moment but because it has consistently dominated its competition for the entire season-a team so far ahead of the pack that it seems almost surreal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excellence on Ice | 3/24/1999 | See Source »

...doomed to act out roles they have no control over. Martin's characters are fully and enticingly written, emerging from the text like the heroes of an epic poem. Culminating in Aisling herself, who even in childhood seems to be a giantess, the figures spring hyper-real from this surreal journey narrative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freedom for Ireland's New Generation | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...republic has survived what is perhaps the weirdest episode in our political history. Many of us tuned out before the surreal drama came to its predestined end. Yet the impeachment of Bill Clinton was not a dream; it actually happened, and its reverberations will echo well into the future. The song is over, but the melody--a discordant one in this case--lingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How History Will Judge Him | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

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