Word: surreal
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...It’s surreal,” McDavitt said. “It’s been so long, we’ve worked so hard, and after a frustrating freshman and sophomore year, it makes this one that much sweeter...
...surreal, overwhelming,” said Carrie E. Andersen ’08. “Who would have thought we’d end up here...
...much going on. So much acid, so much tannin, so much fruit--you taste them so distinctly that with age they'll meld into one distinct flavor," Payne says. It's that same blending that Payne does, mixing the effete and the unpretentious, the banal with the surreal, the painstakingly honed with the unretouched, that make his movies so good. At least that sounds smart after four really big glasses of wine. --With reporting by Desa Philadelphia/Los Angeles
...listeners into the Mondays’ bent, polluted world, where joyous “Yippee-yippee-yi-yi-yay!”s stolen from Patti LaBelle are followed by “I had to crucify some brother today!” Properly indoctrinated, we progress through a surreal encounter with the police (“God’s Cop”) a tribute to a ’60s icon (“Donovan”) and a family tragedy (“Grandbag’s Funeral”) before “Loose...
...looking for foreign material to adapt, you'd likely avoid anything in Japanese, a language whose subtleties have tormented translators for centuries. And you definitely wouldn't choose Haruki Murakami, whose witty, noirish best sellers about contemporary Japan (Norwegian Wood, A Wild Sheep Chase) combine the mundane and the surreal with daunting complexity...