Word: surrealness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nothing else, the 112th playing of The Game on a rainy, almost surreal Saturday afternoon was a testament to the resiliency, pride and character of the Harvard football team...
...surreal development in the American electorate's psychology that Powell should be the Ashley Wilkes in this piece, the unavailable paragon. (Pursuing the analogy too far is tough, since it involves transforming either Bob Dole or Bill Clinton into Rhett Butler.) As Powell's case shows, the romance of the withheld is powerful. Scarlett wanted Ashley because she could not have him. Human nature yearns for--idealizes--what is placed out of reach: Lycidas, the hero who dies in youth; Camelot, the bright, magic might-have-been. A politics of Zen--the most powerful presence is someone...
...dark this morning when he came out of the woods surrounding the field and started spraying troops who were exercising. A soldier in the barracks next to the field, who happened to have a video camera, heard the commotion and shot a video of the scene. It was surreal, with the moon shrouded by fog in the darkness. People were yelling and running in all directions. Some of the soldiers apparently tackled the shooter. A civilian-issued M-16 rifle, a pistol and another weapon were confiscated by military investigators. The injuries ranged from superficial to critical. Most were shot...
...nine and ten, it was kind of a surreal wake-up call, a bit of a bonding experience," he said...
Part of the problem, and also the cleverness of the film, is that every character has a Doppelganger, further blurring the real and surreal, often beyond distinction. The barons and baronesses Johan encounters appear to him sometimes as they are and other times as he merely imagines them. Only after Alma tells the camera that she herself began seeing their neighbors through his dark lens do we realize Johan has been fantasizing about them all along...