Word: surrealness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time of beer, beaches and boinking. For others, it is thesis crunch week. And for still more, it's just another nine days to have neurotic tizzy fits. Occasionally, like the writer of one of the postcards I received this week, Spring Break is a haven for the surreal. One of my readers seems to have spent Spring Break waiting for my next column...
...move to their new house in Idaho--a house that is not near any of the state's white-supremacist compounds. Hackett says Fuhrman told her during a recent conversation, "I just can't believe that all this is happening." But as everyone who has been drawn into this surreal web is coming to learn, all's fair in the court...
...really surreal to be in the Union," Cadieux said, "Because you're in the Union but it was so un-Unionesque...
...film opens with what we eventually learn are Axel's favorite dreams of Eskimo fishmongers. Soon, Axel's Uncle Leo (Jerry Lewis) sends his mafia punk son, Paul (Vincent Calo), to fetch Axel from the city to attend Leo's wedding in Arizona. Here, the film leaps into the surreal skies and endless planes of the midwest...
Apart from the riveting power of the cast, this production has visual intensity. The sets themselves are strikingly stylized, from the cavernous English war-chamber to the surreal floating windows of the French court and the palisade of Calais with its cutaway wall. Daniels uses this backdrop to construct tableaux with his characters, freezing the action on the stage in moments of startling clarity. The image of Henry kneeling among the body bags of slain men, or of the two kings sitting in opposite thrones with their men grouped behind them like chesspieces, linger in the mind's eye like...