Word: surreality
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Part of the appeal no doubt rests in the brevity of Keret's surreal snapshots of Israel's intifadeh generations ("Just enough to read between leaving your cell and getting stopped in the showers," is how he puts it). There is also the way that his very short stories - there are 46 in Missing Kissinger, in just 211 pages - lend themselves to lengthy bouts of reflection...
Then there are the surreal kinks in Keret's career. Izzat al-Ghazzawi, a Palestinian writer who died in 2003, refused to sit on the same panel as him at an event in Norway, drawing in the process an attack from French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Later, however, Izzat translated Keret's The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God, another collection of short stories, into Arabic for the first time...
...time" is an overused phrase, but Norman Lear's soap-opera satire, which debuted in 1976, would work on HBO today. Louise Lasser is the eponymous housewife, anesthetized by TV and horrified by the "waxy yellow buildup" on her kitchen floor. The show immerses you in a surreal, quaint-but-sordid small-town setting that makes Desperate Housewives look like Leave It to Beaver...
...like words and the manipulation of words, and I like how they sound when bumped up against each other in strange permutations,” Benjamin says. Though Benjamin is hesitant to label the play as absurdist, she acknowledges the fact that jarring and surreal threads run throughout the script. However, she never intended to take the play in such a direction. “I started off writing something that was a little more traditional, had more of a definite plot and story arc, and I got about five pages into it and then I realized that I wasn?...
...sophomore forward Emma Moretzsohn led the team with 13 and 12 points, respectively, while sophomore guard Emily Tay had 10 points to go along with six assists. Lackner chipped in 11 points and six rebounds in her final appearance at Lavietes.“Senior Night is kind of surreal,” Lackner said. “It’s been four years that flew by. As for our play, [it was] not like we would like it. But we pulled it off. A win’s a win.”HARVARD 64, CORNELL 48A wise...