Word: surrealness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only a youngster at the time, Ruggiero impressed national coaches and earned a spot on the senior national team alongside players twice her age. The experience was surreal...
Take theater as a case in point. Much of what is called theater on this campus focuses on the bizarre or the surreal. Students often stage their productions in non-traditional venues considered artsy or experimental. While these spaces can sometimes add to an audience's understanding of a play, they can also make it more difficult to hear to actors or can limit audience size or performance space...
...perv, the perfect centerpiece for a film about the insanity of pretension. First-time director Spike Jonze, a longtime music video artiste, has filmed it with collaborator Lance Acord to underplay the fantastic elements of the storyline and accentuate the dirty realness of the images; the plot is deeply surreal, but the setting is today's world, crazy as it actually...
...debate in Washington about who is trying to raid Social Security and who is trying to save it is completely surreal for two reasons. First, Social Security is in no danger for at least a couple of decades. It is uncharacteristic for politicians of both parties to seem so concerned about such a distant threat. But second, this debate will have no effect on Social Security. That's not opinion or prediction: that's mathematics. Republicans and Democrats say they want the budget to balance without counting the Social Security surplus. It's an admirable goal for many reasons...
Morris' image of Reagan today, in decline under Alzheimer's, is poignant and surreal. "He will rake leaves from the pool for hours, not understanding that they are being surreptitiously replenished by his Secret Service men." When Reagan acknowledged his ailment in 1994, many who had been struck by his odd driftiness during the White House years began to wonder whether it had been the disease beginning its assault on his brain. Morris is adamant in opposing that view. "To those readers who will seize on this as evidence of incipient dementia in the White House, I reply...