Word: surrealness
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...streamlined, skittering guitars, snide vocals and soaring vocal harmonies. Hitchcock’s lyrical ruminations range from love to war, from playful nips to vicious gnawing. “Kingdom of Love” begins with a bouncing groove and positively rings with light, though the lyrics are a surreal treatment of overwhelming sexual fixation: “You’ve been laying eggs under my skin / Now they’re hatching out under my chin / Now there’s tiny insects showing through / And all them tiny insects look like...
...under suspicion of pocketing $97,000 for bogus legal work before his 1997 appointment as minister. Though that payment was later proved legitimate, Strauss-Kahn faces trial in May on charges of backdating documents to prove his innocence in the case. Then last September Strauss-Kahn watched as a surreal scandal plaguing conservatives turned against him. The affair involved a videotaped confession by a since-deceased operative detailing an illegal financing scheme in the early 1980s and '90s allegedly run by President Jacques Chirac's conservative Rally for the Republic - and implicating Chirac personally. Battered conservatives then watched gleefully...
...month ago at the opening of an exhibit at the Margaret Bodell Gallery in New York City. On display was a series of 10 unusual architectural paintings. The lines and angles of each facade were rendered with photographic accuracy; the colors, on the other hand, were blithely surreal. The artist: Jessy Park...
...style of delivery—a pleasure in the poem as story. Before this reading, my acquaintance with Maxwell’s work was limited to his earliest poems, some of which, as he has himself admitted, are formally tight to the point of obliquity, and a sort of surreal terseness...
...Academy Awards managed to pass into history without any significant tasteless, or truly memorable, moments. BJORK did lay an egg on the red carpet, and we gazed upon an uncharacteristically lucid BOB DYLAN, his majestic cragginess beamed via satellite from Australia. But most of the surreal celebrity high jinks were reserved for the Vanity Fair postparty at Mortons, where a single terrorist bomb could have instantly made Drew Carey the most powerful man in show business. At the bash, TOM CRUISE clung to his publicist, and Calista Flockhart, Lucy Liu and Lara Flynn Boyle formed the world's skinniest posse...