Word: surrealities
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...surreal exposition of the play is the same as that of the film: One night in 1988, a friendless high school student named Donnie (Dan McCabe) sees a man-sized rabbit with a horrifying mask, calling himself Frank. Frank (Perry Jackson) tells him in a terrifyingly distorted voice that “the world will end” in 28 days, and saves Donnie from a freak accident. For the next month, Donnie does whatever Frank tells him, upsetting the delicate social balance of his emotionally repressed suburb in the process...
...paper; a twentieth-century nude by Elie Nadelman shares a wall with works by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Edgar Degas, and an anonymous nineteenth-century artist in Rajasthan, India, among others. The show is organized thematically rather than chronologically or geographically. The seemingly incongruous juxtapositions create a surreal space in which a punch bowl from a 1931 Cowan Pottery Studio Jazz Bowl Series is a blaze of blue and black abstraction behind a case containing Mayan cylinder vases and Greek oil flasks. Ackley cites two original sites of inquiry: his desire to look at a Goya drawing next...
...know, there was a picture in USA Today when we were up at Cornell and it was them singing the alma mater in front of 80,000 people at Tigers Stadium, and there’s Hatch right in the middle of it, and it was kind of surreal,” Murphy chuckled...
...once declared the seat of a new Islamic caliphate and capital of the Iraqi insurgency. Rather than rise up against them, the people of Ramadi Tuesday invited U.S. forces to watch a massive parade - albeit one so tightly secured that no pedestrian traffic got close to it. The almost surreal, two-hour martial procession was led by the city's children to commemorate the martyred leader of a tribal revolt that has virtually silenced al-Qaeda in Anbar Province. It gave the Baghdad government a photo-op to make points about national unity, and so the Shi'a dominated government...
...alive, they must tell their strangest and most twisted stories. Writer and producer Dennis Bartok left his position as head programmer at the art house American Cinematheque in Los Angeles to work on the film. “It’s about the grotesque, the surreal and the erotic, the weird intersection between real life and the fantastic,” Bartok says of his movie. All segments of “Trapped Ashes” are based on real-life events. The “Jibaku” segment was inspired by one of Bartok?...