Word: surrealization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well as the best soccer players) in the world. And their music is just as good. Jorge Ben is a musician who's been called Brazil's Marvin Gaye, and his latest album, Tropical, is a paean to escapism. Listening to it is like reading stream-of-consciousness poetry--surreal and full of images, from a cafe on a black-and -white mosaic Rio sidewalk to a red-dirt hairpin road winding up a jungled hill in Latin America. It makes you think of visiting Dom Pedro II's cracked stucco palace where you can talk to the 150-year...
Inside, the bar was done up Mafia-surreal: big horse-shoe-shaped counter, color t.v. competing with the jukebox in the corner, indoor-outdoor carpet on the floor. A beer cost $2.25. Men in lime-green leisure suits and white patent leather loafers whose porcine faces bulged behind drugstore sunglasses, nodded at us and cackled in a far booth. We took our beers to the cool, shaded back...
...child and woman. Her godfather Drosselmeyer, brilliantly portrayed by Alexander Minz, is both fatherly and aboil with suppressed eroticism. Baryshnikov accents mystery and the paradox of the light and dark faces of the human soul. Stage Designer Boris Aronson's huge painted panels and fantasy murals form a surreal backdrop for the enchanted events of the ballet...
...surreal stew for Octavio...
People say to me: "Jesus, you moved into some pretty surreal satire." I say: "No, I still write realistic stuff. It's the world that's gone nuts, not me. It's the world that's turned into a satire." We never lied. Everything in the movie is true-with some extensions. It's very hard to describe simply and realistically what is going on without being grotesque. I think the movie is right...