Word: surreal
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...received more than $30 million in fees and commissions. Citigroup systematically packaged and resold the firm's receivables, even installing its own software at Parmalat headquarters to help track them; between 1999 and 2003, it earned $35 million. Grant Thornton and Deloitte & Touche signed off on its increasingly surreal accounts and booked millions of dollars in fees for doing so. In the company's final weeks, Deutsche Bank took on the assignment of helping it work with Standard & Poor's, which kept its "investment grade" rating on the firm until 10 days before the collapse. And analysts worldwide encouraged investors...
...cast, which is stellar: each and every one. Alan D. Zackheim ’06 is somber and compelling as the solitary physicist-on-a-mission Johann Mobius, and his single-mindedly devoted yet star-crossed love interest Nurse Monika (Erica R. Lipez ’05) transcends the surreal and silly qualities of her character to turn in an occasionally poignant performance...
Looking at a work by Cerith Wyn Evans is a bit like strolling through Harvard Square half-asleep. It’s eclectic, disorienting and mildly overwhelming—too surreal to be completely logical but realistic enough to be convincing. Just when you think you know exactly where you are on Mass. Ave.—just when you think you finally understand Evans’ aesthetic universe—everything turns blurry, foreign and confusing...
...long, sprawling set comprised of two movements, the first 17 minutes and the second 28 minutes. The result was a sprawling, heavily-reverbed dreamscape that alternated from sounding atmospherically surreal, virtuosically psychedelic, and vaguely rockish...
...just as the bloody bodies fell,” explained Rafael, “you had all these red poppies growing up around them. It was supposed to be a really surreal scene...