Word: surreal
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...hospitalized for a number of days. Paul’s family wants to see him enact the revenge he deserves in court, but Paul just want to see Bishop off the ineligible list and back on the gridiron. Being assaulted by an idol may be far-fetched, but the surreal conflict presents the familiar challenge of balancing one’s personal loyalties. The rest of the characters serve primarily as sources of advice and criticism for Paul. His brother is an ambulance-chasing lawyer with a vapid trophy wife, his friend Sal only encourages his rabid fandom...
...would all be a surreal memory for Cibolo and the rest of America, if only it were over. Instead, Hayden's case is a flare in the darkness, a warning that as the nation begins its second big battle with a strange flu virus, we are up against a threat that we are not particularly skilled at overcoming, one that provokes an extreme range of emotions - from fear to indifference - none of which are all that helpful. The battle ahead is psychological as much as it is medical. And although we have heard a great deal about the importance...
...summer filled with justifiable acclaim for “Inglourious Basterds,” another war movie snuck onto the scene and captured audiences with an almost surreal attention to detail rather than with a clever rewrite of history. Written by American journalist Mark Boal, the script for “The Hurt Locker” is based on stories from his time covering a bomb squad in Iraq. Jeremy Renner (“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” “28 Weeks Later”) leads the film?...
...After passing the entrance formalities, we were loaded onto a bus with four state guides. The photographer in me was ecstatic at what I was seeing. The visual texture of North Korea is different from any country on earth. It is stark and bizarre to the point of being surreal. Pyongyang may have more monuments and wide avenues than Washington or Paris - all built in the past 50 years to the specs of the Kims' jarring taste - yet cars and pedestrians are nearly absent. It's like an empty movie...
...moves across the sky. This is done to help their algae photosynthesize. As the sun dips behind the mangroves, jellyfish congregate near the surface to catch the last rays before sinking to the bottom for the night, putting on a display of marine behavior as surreal as you'll ever see. Go to www.visit-palau.com for more information...