Word: surreal
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This element of entertainment is not out of place in the Tasty late at night where reality and fantasy mesh together in a surreal atmosphere that pervades the cramped, flourescently-lit quarters of the 70-year old coffee shop overlooking Cambridge's commercial...
...modest about it, True Stories is a divine comedy for the '80s, with Narrator Byrne acting as a hip-nerd Virgil to the moviegoer's Dante in this travelogue of the surreal landscape called Virgil, Texas. It also represents the first big-screen flowering of the decade's dominant hip sensibility. Like Letterman with his "Small-Town News" and "Stupid Pet Tricks," Byrne is fascinated by the seemingly banal. Like Lynch's Blue Velvet, True Stories rides the subterranean currents of bizarre behavior that bubble under Smalltown, U.S.A. "It's a strange world, isn't it?" the characters in Blue...
Horace Busby, a political analyst who got his start under Johnson and who has been as right as anybody in this town about long-range prospects, takes a decidedly pessimistic view. "Washington has retreated into a surreal world where values are so reversed that fantasy is fact, evasion is honesty and irresponsibility is a cause for pride," he says...
...escapade entered an even more surreal phase. Holding a decidedly impromptu press conference on the steps in the lobby, Tolentino began naming the members of his Cabinet, among them, none other than Juan Ponce Enrile, who would remain as Defense Minister. Meanwhile, the gate- crashers continued to make free use of the facilities of the historic hotel, ordering drinks from the bar, lounging by the pool and stretching out on the floor of the chandeliered lobby...
...music so well, it's surprising that Prince's biggest mistake as a director lies with the soundtrack. There's not enough of it. The popular songs off the soundtrack album, like `Kiss' and `New Position' are limited to the background and often stripped of lyrics. There is a surreal performance of `Mountains' as the credits roll, but it's too late. We're already angry because there wasn't enough concert footage...