Word: surreality
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Martha Stewart was back in the legal spotlight last week--at another high-profile trial that has obsessed the media. As Scott Peterson went on trial for the murder of his pregnant wife Laci, the defense scored a surreal but key point by playing a videotape of the TV homemaker. Peterson had said that on the morning the prosecution says he killed Laci, she was watching Stewart talk about meringue. The Modesto, Calif., police department claimed no meringue was mentioned on Stewart's show that morning. But Peterson attorney Mark Geragos, in his opening statement, played the tape and showed...
LIFESTYLE: Anti-cellulite clothes; a retro Chrysler; surreal dining...
...course, in the realm of the sweetly surreal, especially since Jarmusch's film, despite all its here-and-now actors, is shot in the kind of murky black-and-white that one associates with '50s B pictures. It feels as if it has been recovered from a time capsule, and what larger meaning it may have is anyone's guess. But it is way cool--and funny--in ways that more expensive comedies trying harder rarely are. --By Richard Schickel
Smith is very good on the West Wing--style internal politics of Kennedy's West Wing, but otherwise there is nothing particularly revelatory or shocking here. And there's something a little surreal about the book's lack of perspective. Kennedy was a President who confronted the unthinkable in many forms, be it nuclear annihilation or Oleg Cassini dancing the twist with Robert McNamara. Grace and Power gives them equal weight. --By Lev Grossman
...their own security, the Marines felt angry, frustrated and deeply skeptical that the deal would work. As they packed up their equipment and cleared out from their forward operating base, they were fuming. Despite the agreement, the Marines were still taking heavy fire from the insurgents. "This is so surreal," says Pantano, after being briefed on the agreement. "I had to write it down in my journal to make sure I wasn't making it up." This is how the war looks to the Americans on the front lines...