Word: surreal
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...much as it is upon vision Travelog, however, has no such solid base. The pictures in it just are not good enough. The very process of photography creates enough of a suspension of the real and mystification of it to make the image of a real object in fact surreal. But Harbutt has not realized that such truly surreal and evocative photography requires pictures that are as classically descriptive and uncontrived as a photograph...
...PHANTOM OF LIBERTE. A Series of surreal blackout sketches by Luis Buñuel, loosely grouped around the theme of man's perverse pleasure in paradox. Buñuel creates in this film a paradox of his own: a work that is carbolic and tonic all at once...
...FANTOME DE LA LIBERTE, by Luis Bufiuel is an antic series of absurdist parlor tricks. All the surreal illusions are linked rather casually by the theme of freedom, by the lunatic effects caused by man's repressive passion for order...
...denouement was jarring in its swift resolution and therefore a bit surreal. Nearly 800 days after the Watergate breakin, 289 days after the Saturday Night Massacre, 97 days after the White House transcripts were released, twelve days after the Supreme Court voted, 8 to 0, that the President must surrender 64 more tapes, five days after the House Judiciary Committee voted out articles of impeachment, Nixon's defenses finally vanished. On Monday he issued the June 23, 1972 transcript that amounted to a confession to obstruction of justice and to lying to the American people and his own defense counsel...
...that the middle-class black families he interviewed would be strangers to him, White sought out subjects in four cities through third and fourth parties - but discovered that he and his interviewees invariably had acquaintances in common. While writing the cover profiles on middle-class families, White took a surreal evening off to report on Sly Stone's wedding, which coincidentally occurred last week (see PEOPLE...