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Word: surrealness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...times on Wah Wah, the songs achieve coherence despite the best efforts of the band, and the result is hauntingly intense. The second track, "Pressure's On," is one such song: the weirdly hypnotic synthesizer, the surreal, breathy vocals and the only occasionally comprehensible lyrics combine to create a liquid, seductive, trippy sound. A later track, the aptly titled "Rhythmic Dreams," has a similar effect, but relies on a steady jungly drumbeat and mantra-like vocals to give the piece shape and draw in the listener. These and other tracks utilize non-musical noises, like dripping water, crickets, and talking...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: Social Circle Goes Round and Round | 12/15/1994 | See Source »

...post messages for the public to read. Because of this high level of anonymity (for many users, read: adventure), some newsgroups become harmless forums where shy housewives may live out their fantasies, college kids can plan communist revolutions and strangers are introduced to one another. The cyberspace becomes a surreal, virtual world where characters exist only by the words their creators choose to write. And nothing more...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Orwell On Line | 12/3/1994 | See Source »

...final seconds ticked down on the Harvard Stadium scoreboard last Saturday, a surreal melee ensued. Hundreds of seemingly disoriented Harvard students stormed the field to attack their Ivy League counterparts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOING VIOLENCE RIGHT | 11/23/1994 | See Source »

...When we set out to make 'Natural Born Killers' in 1992, it was a surreal subject matter," said Stone. "But by the time it was finished in 1994 it had grown to become real...

Author: By Jeff Beals, | Title: Oliver Stone Speaks at Law School | 11/17/1994 | See Source »

...this relationship are conveyed with delicacy and subtlety. Their rapport, especially when they reminisce about their childhood closeness, rings touchingly true, and is especially poignant in a play dedicated to Vogel's own lost bother. But Carl and Anna are neither melodramatic nor cliched. Amid the kaleidoscopic, surreal happenings of Vogel's plot, one never loses a sense of these characters' essential normality and love for each other...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: Waltz with Death | 11/17/1994 | See Source »

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