Word: surrealities
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...lesson Larry Brilliant likes to distill from his life, it is this: Never settle for one career when nine will do. Starting out in the 1960s as a hippy kid from Detroit with a medical degree and a vague desire to change the world, Brilliant drifted into a surreal series of roles: physician to the Grateful Dead, co-star of a movie called Medicine Ball Caravan, seeker of enlightenment in India. The turning point came when, on his guru's advice, Brilliant joined the World Health Organization's effort to stamp out smallpox. "For a doctor, eradicating a disease...
...experience was surreal for all those involved...
...friends and family back in the States, however, they cannot understand the matter-of-factness with which I talk about the war and Israel’s possible involvement. When I try to look at my situation objectively, I too have found the whole experience to be surreal. Never before have I made my weekend plans conditional on a possible missile attack. Yet in spite of the increased security concerns here, I and the others in my group have never doubted our decision to come to Israel, nor to stay here through the war with Iraq...
Marisol’s reality and her plight serve as a reflection of our own, troubled society in Jose Rivera’s socially-charged, surreal play, Marisol. But the play’s overly broad, sweeping ambition and vision of post-apocalyptic society are never fully realized—and ultimately undermine the strengths of last weekend’s staging at the Loeb Experimental Theater and the accomplishments of an otherwise remarkable cast and crew, ably directed by Rebecca R. Kastleman...
...It’s really surreal, because it used to be something we used to be embarrassed about and keep secret,” he says...