Word: surrealness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soul-searching mood, singing and rapping almost mystically ("Move with me, I'm strong enough/ To be weak in your arms"). The sparse, moody arrangements, combining synthesizer strings, record-turntable scratches and occasional guitar, bass and piano riffs, give her hip-hop, rock and jazz fusion a delightfully surreal ambience...
...surreal transition: in armored personnel carriers supplied by the United Nations Protection Force, we make our way from the besieged to the besiegers. We pass through the lines, through checkpoints and no-man's-lands, to the headquarters of Radovan Karadzic, the Serb nationalist chieftain. Karadzic is a poet and, in civilian life, bizarrely enough, a psychiatrist. A sleek, fattish man with an expensive double-breasted suit, bushy eyebrows and flamboyantly styled long hair. I try to conjure up a psychiatric session with this healer. I see certain Hippocratic problems with a head doctor who would lead his patients...
...self-portrait as a sentimental-satirical vision of back-lot life, a jazzy juxtaposition of past and present, star egos and bit-player frustrations, epic pretensions and commercial hackery. It's a movie for movie lovers, especially those who romanticize the moviemaking process -- and Fellini's undimmed capacity for surreal gestures and devil-may-care imagery...
This tableau and its variants are common features of the urban landscape in contemporary America and I had become inures to it. Indeed, I have mastered the art of adroitly stepping over the assorted homeless persons who populate Harvard Square. This particular scene however was almost surreal, a chilling miniature of the theoretical exposition of inequality...
...begins Darius James' first novel, a cartoonish, surreal sendup of racial stereotypes and American culture. Like these prefacing remarks, the book is hard-hitting and hilarious...