Word: surreality
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...cause of FISHBOWLDC's Garrett Graff, who was once Howard Dean's webmaster. After Graff finally snared a credential, the ex-Harvard Crimson editor showed up on his first day with homemade cookies to thank White House staff members. He later described the experience in his blog as both "surreal" and "anticlimactic...
...movie faces something of a paradox: how does one use footage of reality to communicate the surreal situation of war? Documentary footage rarely affords the evocative ambience and haunting images of fictional war films. Palace is neither structurally nor visually slick, partly because the footage was kept mostly chronological, and it was captured with a hand-held camera. Although this contributes to the sense of authenticity within the film, there are times when the conspicuous sound editing and self-conscious narration take the viewer out of the narrative...
...district, has been triumphantly transformed into the fashionable East Hotel, tel: (49-40) 30 99 30. Opened three months ago, this 78-room treat is the daring creation of Chicago-based architect Jordan Mozer, who says he was looking to achieve "a contrast between old and new" and "a surreal mixture of East and West." Spaces are draped in luminous floor-to-ceiling velvet curtains, decorated with handmade furnishings and wrought-iron fixtures, and illuminated by candlelight. The Asian accents (such as the Thai-inspired, brushed-aluminum sinks that seem to levitate above the bathroom counters) complement the textures...
...designers chose a mixture of realistic and dream-like elements for the room that is the center of the play’s action. The combination of the fantastic and realistic here goes a long way to tie the firmly-grounded first act to the more surreal second. Perhaps, the one piece of decoration that falls flat is the series of framed silhouettes of horses surrounding a door. While horses are certainly a motif in the play, their role in the play’s message is not prominent enough to merit such a central placement of the prop...
...sports overalls and an American Girl smile. Opal is distinguished from the other townsfolk of sleepy Naomi, Florida with her odd name and piercing blue eyes, framed by dark mascara and perfectly plucked eyebrows. This artistic choice on the part of the makeup artist gives the young actress a surreal appearance to stand out in a movie lacking any standout plot or character development...