Word: surreal
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...when the bulletin flashed: Gianni Versace had been shot. Drummond dashed out the door and drove straight to the designer's South Beach villa, where his blood still stained the front steps. What she discovered there was more like a Versace catwalk than a crime scene. "It was totally surreal," says Drummond. "There was a squirrel on a leash perched atop a man's head. A dachshund wearing a necklace pranced about, and models were everywhere, mugging for the cameras...
...J.P.L., the scientists did what scientists do in such signal moments, responding with both exultant overstatement and near-surreal understatement. "This is a spectacular day," said mission manager Richard Cook. Rover scientist Henry Moore agreed, after a fashion. "Nobody," he said, without a trace of obvious irony, "has ever driven a car on Mars before...
Prefects are told to bridge the gap between the mythical, surreal image of Harvard and the real College for their first-years so that the new students can have a place within Harvard. That bridge, the philosophy that inspires the prefect program follows, will make first-years feels more at home. I do not disagree with that idea. But I wonder what is lost when we cross that bridge. I remember the wonder that I arrived with when I first came here the wonder of feeling a part of a long and lofty tradition. Much of my excitement about coming...
...realm of lunacy as he is observed recording tapes of his complaints to Leonard Bernstein, imploring him to write more love songs ("What the world needs now is love, sweet love," he cries). Weber's portrayal of the Santa-Claus-suit-clad Byck was convincing, if a little surreal. Giuseppe Zangara (Edward Ha '97), like Czologsz, is a skeptic of capitalism, but his smaller role and reduced presence in the play makes him harder to characterize...
...kids at heart, and the Warner aces (Jones, Avery, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett) were brilliant kids, all in their 20s or early 30s, when they created Porky, Daffy and Bugs. Freleng was the anchor, making crisp vaudeville comedies. Clampett bent his stories and pummeled his characters into manic, surreal, endless inventive farce; his great period (1942-46) deserves a book of its own. Jones' films were about people--all right, barnyard critters, but human withal--who endured life's vithithitudes (as Daffy would say) with amazing grace and Charlie Chaplin's physical...