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...sports overalls and an American Girl smile. Opal is distinguished from the other townsfolk of sleepy Naomi, Florida with her odd name and piercing blue eyes, framed by dark mascara and perfectly plucked eyebrows. This artistic choice on the part of the makeup artist gives the young actress a surreal appearance to stand out in a movie lacking any standout plot or character development...

Author: By Julie Y. Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Because of Winn-Dixie Review | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

Indeed, as American politics become more and more surreal, Ex Machina starts to seem less and less far-fetched...

Author: By Michael A. Mohammed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Comics Review: Ex Machina | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

...sand! We ran up on the beach, the two girls and I, and there were about a dozen French people there at 2:12 a.m. their time. We put our arms up in the air like Rocky and said, 'Praise God. God is great.' It was just surreal. Then we just waded back into the water and"--because even at 70, you can't just immigrate to France via swimming the Channel--"swam a couple hundred meters back to the boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Is But A Dream | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

...Breaking up regulated time with something surreal never hurt anyone,” Hwang says. “What happened to the days of yesteryear when college students had adventures...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Weekend Warriors: Club Treks To See Siamese Skeletons, Murder Sites | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

...those small moments of surreal beauty that sometimes strike you in college. You will be sitting in your common room, having come back from a series of parties, and there will be a pause in the conversation, and you will look up at your roommates and be blindsided by your love for them; or you will be walking down the street, talking, and look up at the blue of winter sky over brick; or you will be eating in dining hall and the conversation will run on, absurdity piling on absurdity, as though by some momentum...

Author: By Phobe Kosman, | Title: As on a Darkling Plain | 12/20/2004 | See Source »

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