Word: surreal
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...second exotic subject is more mysterious, almost surreal. It is a zebra mare, which had been brought from the Cape of Good Hope and given to Queen Charlotte in 1762. This "painted African, ass," the first seen in England, was installed in the royal menagerie at Buckingham Gate. When he came to paint it, Stubbs set it in an English wood, its black-and-white hide in almost shocking contrast to the green tunnels of boscage and filtered shade that stretch behind it. It is as though one had taken a wrong turn in the Forest of Arden and encountered...
...last, the endless and surreal campaign would come to rest upon a hard fact: the vote...
Unlike U2, Persian Gulf also manages to blend the surreal and the political, without sounding artsy. "Eclipse of the Moon" is an apocalyptic vision of social disintegration that strays from reality into fantasy with no resulting loss in intensity: "all the women are banding together/they're running free in the woods tonight/in my sleep I can hear them chanting...
...medical residency. Yet no sooner do Jennifer and Stuart become involved, than Jennifer's mother discovers the romance, and during an accusatory phone call, shoots herself. Jennifer and Stuart race home to the rural Midwestern town where Jennifer's mother lives, and the plot quickly takes on a surreal glaze...
...Puerto Rico, where he had been managing editor of the English-language San Juan Star, to write features for the Albany Times-Union. He soon found himself walking a picket line as a member of the striking Newspaper Guild. In The Ink Truck, the real is bent into the surreal. Dingy neighborhoods are weirdly illuminated by arsonists' flames; alleys echo to pagan rites; Old World myths are superimposed on the present. There are elegiac hallucinations of the past and an up-to-date orgy, a perky sketch of a bare female torso, and batty headlines, such as PIGS...