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...successful. The centerpiece of the set, a wardrobe, opens the door to Schulz’s artistic creations; a man in a tutu swings on top of the wardrobe both as a symbol of nature’s creative force and as an emblem of the surreal. The set design serves to underscore Schulz’s artistic free spirit...
...next 20 minutes were surreal. Question after question came from her mouth, and they ranged from the astonishingly easy to answer (“Was Hitler the only one who hated the Jews?”) to the impossible (“Why did people hate the Jews...
...Tanna, a Vogue reader since age 12, becoming the title's editor has been surreal. Last winter, during her first Milan fashion week, she was feted by industry bigwigs. "When the flashbulbs went on and Giorgio Armani walked in and embraced me, it was one of those moments I'll remember forever...
...great Pinot may taste heavenly, but it's a devil of a job to get it into your glass. Birds love the sugar-laden grapes (hence the surreal sight in early fall in Central Otago of what appear to be snow-filled valleys, which are in fact a vast expanse of white nets). If the grapes aren't picked exactly as they reach maturity, the thin-skinned berries shrivel on the vines--which, because they thrive on steep slopes, demand that harvesting be done by hand. Yields are low--about 2 tons per acre (5 metric tons per hectare, which...
...those who would call this MTV cartoon the boob tube at its most puerile, I have but one rejoinder: You said boob. This show's fart-knocking, frog-smashing anarchy alone might have put it on the list, but B&B was so much more. It was a surreal comedy ("I am the great Cornholio!"). It was one of TV's great inside critiques, peeling back the MTV fantasy of unattainable cool and personifying the sugar-buzzed idiot children who paid the channel's bills. Like creator Mike Judge's later Office Space, King of the Hill and Idiocracy...