Word: surrealism
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Against that surreal backdrop, the rest of Haiti seems to be holding its breath. Despite the apocalyptic fears of the BMW-and-beaujolais crowd, a vast, silent constituency eagerly awaits the political resurrection of the priest who is referred to in hushed whispers as "the man whose name we cannot speak." In villages throughout the country, prayers are offered in the churches each Sunday for the lifting of the embargo. "I would like to see the invasion," said Smith Elmont, a boatwright from the small coastal village of Luly. "We all want the Americans to come. Then there will...
...very surreal experience to spend thenight in University Hall and all these light bluehelmets coming in at six in the morning," saysTheodore Sedgwick '71, a protester in thebuilding...
Although "Naked in New York" has a talented cast, and is artsy in the latest sort of surreal-random style (and with-it enough to make fun of traditional black-shirt despairing types of artsyness) a layer of superficiality suffocates the film, rendering it tiresome...
...suggestion that there is somehow less risk in "real" investments than in "surreal" derivative products defies logic. The implication that there is some sort of "crisis" lurking in the wings is similarly bogus. You have only to look at recent history to see there is no market that has a monopoly on risk or fails to appeal to human greed. What is troublesome is the notion that we must be protected from ourselves and cannot bear the consequences of our individual decisions. The last thing we need is ill-informed legislators decreeing some misguided form of capitalism in which people...
Invisible Man, in which a young black relates the surreal events leading to his ultimate isolation, earned best-novel-of-its-time raves from the college of critics. It established Ellison in the permanent firmament of American writers, a place he still occupied at his death last week from pancreatic cancer, six weeks after his 80th birthday. But Invisible Man was more than a gorgeously written piece of fiction. Because its phantasmagoric satire of mid- century life in Harlem and the American South proved prophetic, the book became a blueprint for inner-city discontent. Invisible Man taught two generations...