Word: surrealness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over the course of the past two weeks, the absurdity of my recruiting experience has rivaled that of experimental French theater. If you ever want to have a surreal encounter, try explaining to someone why your knowledge of Wittgenstein's philosophy of language has made you a better marketer. Or why a career in business is the natural extension of your love of literature. Or why a fledgling academic needs management skills. My interviewers weren't buying it, and more importantly, neither...
...which might have given the two plenty to talk about at dinner, except they didn't talk about any of it. Gore never brought up the Harvard speech, and no one mentioned the White House intern. The evening, Gephardt later remarked privately, "could not have been more surreal...
Meanwhile, the four lonely Bulls, Ron Harper, Toni Kukoc, Keith Booth and Randy Brown, are facing a surreal adjustment to playing for a team unlikely to make the playoffs. The Bulls have suddenly become the NBA equivalent of the Florida Marlins: world champions who the following season have a second-rate crew that finish last. Steven Julius, the Bulls psychologist, says the four remaining Bulls will cope with their new status by continuing to think of themselves as defending champions. "Ron Harper can step up under adversity and even other pain," he says. "Toni Kukoc is a tough...
...Diana Walker. It helps, I hope, put not only the First Lady but also her marriage and her husband into a human context. For a while, as you may have read (we're not great at keeping secrets), she was our leading contender. Her strength and her almost surreal ability to assert her dignity were remarkable to some and mystifying to others. She also, for many months, helped determine how the nation framed the scandal debate by portraying it as a partisan battle and disgusting prosecutorial invasion of personal privacy. So why didn't we choose her? Sentimentally...
...that bus). But this hilariously macabre tale of Tam and Richie, two Scottish fence builders who--once they can be dragged from their slovenly trailer, their cigarette breaks and their pub crawling--keep accidentally killing people on the job, marks a terrific debut. As the story veers into increasingly surreal territory--just who, or what, is that new fence Tam and Richie are building meant to keep in?--Mills makes the life of the manual laborer deadly but never dull...