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...loll in these public green spaces. I see none of the country's omnipresent Buddhist monks in the new capital, even at the local pagoda. The instigators of last year's democracy protests, which soldiers broke up with gunfire, presumably aren't welcome in a city dedicated to a surreal sense of order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Naypyidaw | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...shade. But none of the country's omnipresent Buddhist monks appear to have made it to Naypyidaw, not even to its pagoda. Presumably, these instigators of last September's peaceful democracy protests, which were violently suppressed by soldiers aren't overly welcome in a city dedicated to an almost surreal sense of order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Burmese Rulers' Paranoid Home | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

...first collection of children's songs--an album simply titled No! They soon became a fixture on the Disney Channel, writing the theme song for Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, as well as for Higglytown Heroes, an animated show in which the characters are modeled on Russian nesting dolls--a vaguely surreal concept that is perfectly suited to the band. "We're not that interested in prosaic ideas," says Flansburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Might Be Giants | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...from third grade with her signature, or through a scene different than my home. I can run my fingers over it, it is like the dates I used to write down and document, but my reliving is cruelly limited. I am at the mercy of these limitations, of this surreal reality of recollection...

Author: By Mark A. Pacult, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Different Type of Memory | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

Reality television programs have dealt with this actual reality in a number of ways: They liven up the more mundane moments of everyday life with high-stakes competition, exotic locales, or the prospect of fame, no matter how faint (see: “The Surreal Life”). Some combine all three of these things...

Author: By Claire G. Bulger | Title: This is the Real World? | 5/12/2008 | See Source »

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