Word: surrealness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...characters in brazen contempt. The Leibeslieders, a kind of Greek chorus, add another narrative layer to the work. Each of the singers parallels a character and performs occasional scenes based the plot, though an exact connection is difficult to decipher. Along with Leonora's critique, the Leibeslieders have a surreal effect on A Little Night Music...
...turned out he was a Satanist," types a young South Park habitue named Wyld DiVa. "I'm Christian myself, but I'm very open-minded, and we ended up discussing theology for, like, three hours while all these kids jumped in and out. It was very surreal...
Spooky: The sounds, telephones, car sirens going off, sci-fi channels, busy signals. You can listen and record your environment. There's a surrealism in basic everyday life. I'm here, I'm living, I'm walking down the street. I need to get a bite of food. I walk into a 7-11. There are all the candy bar wrappers and the lights. That's surreal. All the candy wrappers have smiley faces. That's real...
...dream. There's a good deal of slapstick humor (flower pots and eggs falling on the heads of government officials, Benigni paying so much attention to Dora in his restaurant that he ends up carrying a live poodle on his serving tray), complemented by a lyrical and occasionally surreal style. Benigni's talent as a wordsmith is also evident: no knowledge of Italian is necessary to understand that he has a way with the language that is highly amusing in itself. There are also, however, hints of what is to come, but it's not in Guido's nature...
...edge of Cambridge near the Somerville city line prides itself on being a `neighborhood square.' In fact, Inman is as far from cosmopolitan Boston as Tewksbury. The only thing that draws one back into the city is the view of the Prudential Center looming in the background. Here, the surreal possibilities of dining in some fabulous restaurants are enough of a reason to bring any xenosquarophobe out to a new place just minutes from a more familiar world...