Word: surreal
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Forced retirement also left him more time for painting, a hobby he has enjoyed for many years. His artistic tastes run to the surreal; one painting is called Nausea. Another, Coma. A third, an allegorical study of genocide, is set in a frame that, by various accounts, was either painted red to look like blood or painted in actual human blood that Kevorkian salvaged from outdated samples at the local blood bank, and from...
...soul-searching mood, singing and rapping almost mystically ("Move with me, I'm strong enough/ To be weak in your arms"). The sparse, moody arrangements, combining synthesizer strings, record-turntable scratches and occasional guitar, bass and piano riffs, give her hip-hop, rock and jazz fusion a delightfully surreal ambience...
...surreal transition: in armored personnel carriers supplied by the United Nations Protection Force, we make our way from the besieged to the besiegers. We pass through the lines, through checkpoints and no-man's-lands, to the headquarters of Radovan Karadzic, the Serb nationalist chieftain. Karadzic is a poet and, in civilian life, bizarrely enough, a psychiatrist. A sleek, fattish man with an expensive double-breasted suit, bushy eyebrows and flamboyantly styled long hair. I try to conjure up a psychiatric session with this healer. I see certain Hippocratic problems with a head doctor who would lead his patients...
...self-portrait as a sentimental-satirical vision of back-lot life, a jazzy juxtaposition of past and present, star egos and bit-player frustrations, epic pretensions and commercial hackery. It's a movie for movie lovers, especially those who romanticize the moviemaking process -- and Fellini's undimmed capacity for surreal gestures and devil-may-care imagery...
This tableau and its variants are common features of the urban landscape in contemporary America and I had become inures to it. Indeed, I have mastered the art of adroitly stepping over the assorted homeless persons who populate Harvard Square. This particular scene however was almost surreal, a chilling miniature of the theoretical exposition of inequality...