Word: surreal
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...like the old barnstorming days." Agrees fellow Utahan Ken Hurd, 42: "I've never had such excitement. In a small plane, you're enclosed. Here, you're like a bird. Everything constantly changes below you. I can't believe how things look. It's surreal...
...ultralight's surge in popularity is almost surreal too. There are 10,000 to 15,000 in the air, about twice as many as there were two years ago. The 30-odd manufacturers of the Dacron-and-aluminum birds, which range in price from $4,000 to $6,000, expect to sell some $90 million worth this year. Unlike many outdoor fads, ultramania is not limited to the Sunbelt, although California, Arizona, Florida and Texas are strong states; the Midwest, particularly the St. Louis area, is also ultra country, possibly because the craft fares best over flat terrain...
...evolved less an answer to lunacy than a technique for exposing it. In every work he manages to reduce history to a wild nightmare from which one wakes up laughing. In his latest novel, with a nod to Jonathan Swift, grand master of the savage laugh and the surreal voyage, Lind sets sail on one of his most inspired trips...
...only took a couple of beers, and we were gone. Gone not to that pleasurably surreal universe of Mr. Buzz Jones, but rather to that unsettling realm of baseball reminiscence, that warped and pipe-dream world of great teams and players of years gone...
...mastectomy, a breakup with the man she lives with and subsequently a death threat. Rennie successfully wheedles her editor into sending her to write a travel piece on St. Antoine, an obscure Caribbean island. The Caribbean sun is soothing, but the islanders are fomenting revolution; and the steadily more surreal chain of events that lands Rennie in a tropical jail teaches her only, in the end, that she cannot ever muster the strength to make herself "exempt" from pain...