Word: surrealities
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...kind of deskbound job often assigned to women G.I.s. Now she found herself wearing a first-aid kit on her belt, gripping an M-4 rifle and crawling on her stomach as enemy fire rained down. "I could hear the rounds pinging all around me," she says. "It was surreal." The scene was horrific. Flies were everywhere, and so was blood. "I'd dealt with people dying in the hospital, but it was nothing like this," she says. Makwakwa and another soldier kicked in the bullet-shattered windshield of the lead vehicle, but the driver was already dead. The driver...
...saving grace is a complete lack of self-seriousness. Swirling camerawork around clowns, mimes, unicyclists, and sundry other performers is just fun and weird, with no ulterior motive. They also get credit (and a place in my nightmares) for painting stylized eyes on the eyelids of performers, a great surreal touch. In their willingness to put entertainment value above trying and failing to be profound and angsty, Panic! In The Disco already has a leg up on their predecessors. Perhaps one day, they’ll look in the mirror, realize that the love, money, and legions of moody adolescents...
...come a long way baby,'" said Scott, who almost retired after winning a gold medal in Salt Lake City, and almost certainly will stop ski racing after this World Cup season. "To finish it with an Olympic medal...well, I'm not going to say it's surreal," Scott said. "We promised each other that we wouldn't get to get too fruity at the end of this...
...staff and a Secret Service agent. Some of these aides, frequent visitors to the Oval Office, were struck literally speechless with respect, so communication was mostly by body language. All were concerned about the protocol of this once-in-a-lifetime moment. One of them said it was so surreal she was unsure if she was supposed to clasp the Pope's hand the way she usually does because she didn't know if she should touch his ring. While the Pope and First Lady exchanged gifts of silver platters and boxes of rosaries, the press pool was given rosaries...
...When receiving his well-deserved Nobel Prize, Colombian auteur Gabriel García Márquez described the ironies and solitudes of the land where unbelievably, “El Dorado” used to appear in maps until just over a century ago. The surreal waters of Latin America reveal two very different paths forward and today’s horizon acquires the sadly familiar shape of uncertainty. One of those paths tries to materialize El Dorado, in the form of fossil fuels rather than gold and further vanquishing democratic institutions. The other is a harder path to follow...