Word: surrealities
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Worst of all, the episode lent a cartoonish, surreal quality to Clinton's desperate scramble to reposition himself as a man of the middle rather than the tax-and-spend liberal that a majority of Americans now suspect him to be. While Clinton might have felt compelled to dump Guinier under any circumstances, the move, coming at a time of presidential image overhaul, looked like some kind of Faustian political bargain. Clinton not only dumped an old friend but in doing so also dismissed the views of his folk-hero Attorney General, Janet Reno, and in the same stroke managed...
...hard to settle on a defining moment that sums up our ambivalence. Perhaps the best symbol of growing harmony in an increasingly surreal world is that the two lonelyhearts in the Taster's Choice commercial finally hooked up. It looks like we're in for a couple more decades of pseudo-happiness, so we'd better learn to enjoy...
...sell the piano back to Ada, one key at a time, for increasingly audacious amorous favors. This uncorseted Brontean plot runs the gauntlet through variations -- some familiar, a few astonishing -- on the theme of possessive passion, and Campion ornaments her fable with film effects that are at once surreal and true to the characters and their time. If The Piano is not quite the culmination of a century of cinema art that its most fervent Cannes admirers suggest, it is surely a delicate, rending achievement...
...reached Broadway when it appeared as a concept album and gave birth to the rock opera in 1969, or even when it was filmed as a surreal fantasia by Ken Russell in 1975, Tommy might have had epic impact on the history of the musical. Rock is the mainstream sound of our era, and the theater is long overdue in making peace with that. Instead, a gloriously hyperkinetic staging arrives, a quarter century late, as nostalgia...
Begun more than a month ago in blood and gunfire, the siege near Waco remained a nerve-grinding standoff with a surreal edge last week. Exasperated negotiators, weary of fruitless phone conversations in which Koresh holds forth on scriptural prophecy and heavenly signs, kept up their psychological warfare. After dark, high-intensity spotlights were directed into the compound, which has been without electricity since federal agents cut the power on March 12. At times a helicopter circled overhead, playing a mobile searchlight into windows...