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Nearby on the Loeb Mainstage, the surreal world of Jean Genet’s The Balcony will be waxing revolutionary from Oct. 25-Nov. 2. Directed by Andrew Boch ’03, this complex show is a study of confinement and fantasy set in a world seething with illusion. A bizarre, yet undeniably engrossing piece of theater...
...raining--and by St. Patrick, it's likely to be--spend some time along the trails winding through the 45-acre castle gardens, the equal of any in Europe. A short stroll can take you to the Japanese garden or the pet cemetery, a lovely if slightly surreal highlight. If you have a little more time, Powerscourt Waterfall, the highest in Ireland, is just three miles away...
...assist the army and police in rounding up the 21 "masterminds" of the so-called "counter-revolutionary upheaval," and "Most Wanted" posters were splashed on street corners. Authorities boasted that the criminals would find nowhere to hide. At first, the pursuit of the student leaders seemed a surreal exercise in totalitarian theater, a face-saving exercise by the party elders who had ordered troops to crush the democracy movement. But it was soon clear that this was deadly serious, as Zhang Boli reports in Escape from China, his harrowing account of two years as a fugitive from communist justice...
...when he bit me." She screamed, and passengers started crawling over seats to restrain him. But his teeth would not let go. "I couldn't get my hand out of his mouth. I thought he was going to rip my hand apart it hurt so bad. It was surreal," she says. "I saw all these men coming ... and I knew I had to get out of the way, but he still had my hand in his mouth." Finally, when he let go, she calmly and professionally--no doubt in shock--put up the tray table next to him. Then...
...this point, Newman's life was getting a little surreal. She was still working on pronouncing all the Arab names she was learning. When she went to the gym after her first day of TV appearances, her spinning class greeted her with a round of applause. But she doesn't relish notoriety--"I didn't wake up one morning and say, 'Gee, I'm going to sue the President!'"--and she is intensely protective of her private life. As a lawyer, she has a natural antipathy to being interviewed--she likes to be the one asking the questions, thank...