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...magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Two hours southeast of the Turkish capital of Ankara lies a surreal landscape of giant pink rocks carved by nature into phantasmagoric formations. Locals call the area Cappadocia (fairy chimneys), and at nearly every roadside stop, there's a stall selling gozleme - the region's extraordinary flat bread: a mixture of feta cheese, parsley, vegetables and spices wrapped in dough and sizzled...
Most impressive is that every scene looks like a moving photograph of a magical, mysterious place. In the jungle-like Haven, the swampy water ripples when touched, and surreal-looking animals dart across the screen. In Serenia, another world, stone pathways cut through calm, Caribbean-blue water laced with lily pads...
...writer Braff’s surreal mix of dark and occasionally cheeky humor with generation-lost profundity is perfect for setting the scene, a mood that often feels more real than that of most still-coming-of-age films. And, while Braff the actor manages to justify and even enrich his numb character the more he weaves his way through a maze of “how old are we” house parties, fluorescent-lighting and tentative moments with a new girl, Sam (Natalie Portman ’03), there’s something awkward that still shouldn?...
...rasping drone was familiar, as was his surreal declaration: "I am Saddam Hussein, President of the Republic of Iraq." At his first court appearance in Baghdad last week, the former dictator sparred with the judge, defended his invasion of Kuwait and even floated a defense strategy, claiming the U.S.-financed tribunal had no jurisdiction in Iraq. "This is a theater by Bush the criminal," he said, wagging an index finger...
...ends in 1955. Here even the most whimsical of images, Eric Thake's Happy Landing, 1939, speaks of the turbines of warfare. It was war that brought German ?migr? Hein Heckroth to Australia. His brief detention in rural N.S.W. resulted in one of the show's loveliest works, Surreal Landscape, 1940, in which one of Max Ernst's birds seems to have settled on the sun-bleached scrub...