Word: surrealness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of embarrassing to be writing this, 25 years later. Our college years and our protests seem both real and unreal, surreal (Oh yes, we did take lots and lots of drugs. Remember drugs?). So many of our chants and speeches--I've been poring through torn, yellowing Crimsons--seem just as naive and self-important as the grown-ups always said...
...incidental, while giving such elements as setting and soundtrack full narrative weight. In a recent interview with The Crimson, Jarmusch described his latest Miramax release, "Dead Man," as an "acid Western," a term perhaps appropriate to a film which takes the Western idiom and stretches it to its most surreal limits...
DIED. SANDY BECKER, 74, children's TV-show host; of a heart attack; in Remsenburg, N.Y. In the free-wheeling universe of early TV, Becker entertained but never patronized young viewers in programs featuring such surreal alter egos as the silent Norton Nork, and Hambone, dispenser of bizarre advice ("Cut your grass, so the ants can pass...
...improvement on Roald Dahl's 1961 backyard fantasy. Director Henry Selick and his team of screenwriters (Karey Kirkpatrick, Jonathan Roberts, Steve Bloom) and technical specialists have given the story balance and emotional heft. Mixing stylized live action with stop-motion animation, they have reconciled the tale's realistic and surreal elements and, in five sprightly Randy Newman tunes, made the story sing...
Lexington last Saturday had that kind of surreal character to it, that sense that you were somewhere new--not that fanatical America didn't exist before, but that you had just discovered it, though you always knew it was there and denied it. It was just before three in the afternoon, and I was in America...