Word: surrealism
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...right beside Kit during the main intrigue. Now, Crowley is a teacher of fiction writing at Yale, a documentary writer and a longtime novelist. Often called a writer’s writer, he is no longer writing science fiction and fantasy books; the novelist whose career has included such surreal masterworks as Little, Big and the Aegypt tetralogy (in progress) here absorbs the historical interest of the documentary writer. Mainly due to vagueness of its historical theories and its reliance on cultural archetypes in lieu of deep characterization, his book gives a sense of not having quite adjusted...
...game itself went by very quickly. It was a surreal experience to be on a set that I had seen on television for many years,” Dobrow said...
...English, escaping his native Netherlands by stealing a small plane and simply flying to England. He later met David’s mother when recuperating from a career-ending plane crash as a crop duster pilot. She was the nurse who accidentally fell in love with him. This history, surreal as it seems, manages to captivate the reader by the poignancy with which it is drawn...
...critics have been lambasting, deriding and disowning the play for ages, few deny that it wields a kind of nasty power. Productions of Titus, from Peter Brooks’ over-stylized 1955 staging to Julie Taymor’s millennia-hopping 1995 Broadway version (preserved for posterity in her surreal, hilarious film adaptation of 1999), seem to be perpetually in vogue. And now a tough and towering Titus takes the Loeb Theater Mainstage on Friday for a two-week...
...endowed with the power to destroy the monster. (You’ve seen these bad scientist/ good scientist types before, consider E.T. and A Beautiful Mind, respectively.) Overall, there is nothing particularly original about these stereotyped characters, but in the context of this monster fable, they seem as surreal and whimsical as the creatures from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland...