Word: surrealness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York primary has always been surreal. Front runners get squashed there. Jimmy Carter was up 27 points four days before the 1980 voting but got flattened by Ted Kennedy. That is why Clinton arrived with a huge delegate lead (1,021 to 164) and much dread. He wanted to put Brown away in convincing fashion. This was not to be. In the last days of the campaign, a quarter of New York voters remained undecided, and Clinton's healthy lead in the polls had the feel of crepe...
...Gary and Richard, I imagine the Stone interview made for a surreal night, a great story and a welcome distraction from exam study. Definitely something to remember...
...articles and its usual oscillation between the trivial and the melodramatic disguises the column's deeper philosophical significance. Every installment is more than a mere detailing of a few individuals' kvetches about an uncaring world; rather, each day's column forms a single vignette within the sweep of a surreal, Gogolesque epic about human weakness. And so the decades-long history of Dear Abby becomes a never-ending morality play...
...Elie Wiesel once suggested, people need reassurance that miracles are still possible, even for them: the dreariest fate may be reversed. The miracle is antidote to the despair that arises from sheer inevitability. The disintegration of Soviet communism, said to have been foretold at Fatima, has had a surreal quality of the miraculous reversal about...
...does the actor seem to be plunging headlong toward intriguing, invigorating professional risk. Williams reads several scripts a week, and of the half a dozen he is considering, only one, Mazursky's proposed sequel to Moscow on the Hudson, seems surefire commercially. Williams' next movie, Toys, a surreal comedy about a general who takes over a toy company, is to be directed by Barry Levinson, who directed Good Morning, Vietnam. Williams is also talking with director Bill Forsyth about starring in Becoming Human, a series of sketches about evolution; and with Oliver Stone about playing assassinated gay politician Harvey Milk...