Word: surrealness
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...There's something more than a little surreal about the World Economic Forum's annual get-together in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, which opened on Thursday. Davos is a conspiracy theorist's dream. Its participants - scores of heads of state and senior ministers, representatives of 1,000 of the world's biggest corporations and an eclectic assortment of economists, social critics, writers, artists and thinkers - may reflect an unparalleled concentration of political and economic power, and yet the event has no formal mandate or decision-making power. In fact, it's not even strictly a conference...
...from samba that was championed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and others. And in the mid-'60s, in the wake of the Beatles and psychedelia and political oppression in Brazil, there was Tropicalia, a free-spirited take on music that mixed indigenous rhythms with electric rock instrumentation, wild dress, playfully surreal lyrics and fierce individualism. And also in the '60s, people finally gave up trying to name all the emerging genres and somebody came up with the catchall name MPB, which stands for "musica popular brasileira." Basically any new music from Brazil could fit in this category, making long explanations like...
...Harry has been catapulted into this [the Hogwarts experience], and he operates on a need-to-know basis only. He doesn't really want to go looking things up. The whole thing is very surreal to Harry. He copes in a very different way from Hermione--he's sort of sink-or-swim, I'll just deal with it minute to minute, which is possibly a more boyish way of coping, rather than go over and over all the angles, as I think a lot of young girls...
...FIRST PERSON (Bravo). Filmmaker Errol Morris beautifully shot these profiles of odd obsessives (a squid hunter, an abattoir designer). In his trademark style, he had his subjects tell their stories gazing straight into the lens; their eyes were windows to the surreal...
...pretty surreal and kind of funny. I can never seem to find it in stores. I got one for free amd gave it to my mom. I bought one for my husband, but never saw it after that first time...