Word: surrealness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Scenes from the whirlwind of press conferences that Paxon held to announce his retirement were somewhat surreal. Was it simply coincidence that Paxon chose Ash Wednesday to announce his retirement, or were the penitent ashes that graced Paxon's forehead symbolic of something greater...
...stories range from the fantastic to the very surreal," Sweeny said...
...best witness, as his joint press conference with Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair made clear. Press conferences with foreign leaders are normally awkward affairs in which the questions and the answers arrive in separate languages, on separate topics, with separate translators. So Friday's performance was downright surreal: the two golden boys of the Third way, Bill and Tony, speaking the same language, practicing a style of politics one had virtually copied from the other, both touting the virtues of a middle class that works hard and plays by the rules. Except that Clinton had somehow got very...
...prove notable exceptions. The archetypal house in one of her square photographs appears as stiff and plastic as the child's play house in another. In the tradition of Dan Graham and Thomas Struth, King's domestic subjects are so patently legible and ordinary they become somehow mysterious or surreal...
...banal yet bizarre near-future world, in which voodoo dinosaur zombies can run amuck in a 24-hour convenience store, or the clerical error of some guy in shipping can cause you to wind up wearing the right arm of a lycanthropic astronaut. Schrab calls this aesthetic "surreal"--indeed, one of the book's slogans is "Surreality just got funky!"--but that doesn't seem quite the right way to describe it. The key to understanding the "logic" of Schrab's universe is to realize that it's not the same sort of causality that we expect from works...