Word: surrealness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week after the phone call, Richardson and a State Department team were flying over Gogrial, where tires had to be cleared from a dirt airfield below so they could land. "I get out of the plane, and it's a surreal scene from a Tarzan movie," the Congressman recalls. A delegation of threadbare Dinka fighters from Kerubino's army lined up to greet him. Richardson had on a tie and the same blazer he'd worn for good luck in every other hostage negotiation...
...exacerbated by the absence of Turbo Man, a perfectly awful action figure, from available shelves and by Langston's rivalry for the elusive doll with one Myron Larabee (the comedian Sinbad), a bomb-toting mailman who has gone permanently postal. Director Brian Levant envisions their holiday world in cheerily surreal terms, and Arnold's other obstacles include an unaccountably savage reindeer, an army of corrupt Santa Clauses and a motorcycle cop who is a sort of uniformed Wile E. Coyote...
...mostly on the last eight months of her brother's life, when he moved into her Los Angeles home so she could nurse him. That she could handle; what she didn't expect was that their parents from Spokane, Washington, would move in as well. The result is a surreal mix of medical drama and family comedy...
Quake The ultimate release after a rough day at work, Quake makes other action games look like kid's play. Your primal battle: obliterate gruesome monsters infesting a surreal dungeon. It's not what you bought the PC for, but it's what you'll be doing anyway. ($45; Id Software...
...nature's infinite book of secrecy, a little I can read," says a soothsayer in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. And last week a team of marine archaeologists provided a glimpse of what they contend are lost secrets of the real Antony and Cleopatra: surreal video footage of 2,000-year-old statues and stelae from a site less than 20 ft. underwater. The ruins appear to correspond to a palace in ancient Alexandria--perhaps the love nest of classical history's most powerful lovers, the pair who, the Bard wrote, "kiss'd away Kingdoms." Proof may still be wanting...