Word: surrealness
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...math textbook and leaving his cell for only one hour a day. His arms and legs in chains, he was allowed to kick a soccer ball around a small exercise area. The restrictions were eased in June, as both sides prepared for trial. "This has been such a strange, surreal experience," Chung Lee, the scientist's only son, told TIME...
...humanity of these two men collides in the early hours of September 4, creating a bizarre, almost surreal spectacle. Sportcasters such as Howard Cosell find themselves on point as hundreds of television cameras beam images of the terrorists' leader, "Issa," who for some reason has blackened his face and wears a white hat as he coolly lays down his terms to German officials ranging from a bemused young policewoman with whom he shares a cigarette to Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher, who confesses with hindsight to being quite taken with Issa's obvious charisma. His second in command, "Tony," constantly...
...best Gore film was barely seen at all. It was created by Spike Jonze, the 29-year-old director of Being John Malkovich, a surreal movie about people getting inside a celebrity's head. No wonder it's a Gore favorite. (Bush's most recent favorite is Forrest Gump.) After using a handheld camera to shoot the Gores at their Tennessee farm and a North Carolina beach house, Jonze came up with a deftly cut montage of Gore kicking back and having fun. He makes Tipper blush by showing off the nude self-portrait she painted when pregnant with Karenna...
...complaint will not be alone. I noticed several bizarre abuses of music during the Philadelphia convention. One morning I snuck into the arena and caught the orchestra rehearsing. It was quite surreal. Three tunes especially caught...
...host Ed Grant) and his film clips. But this celebration of "everything from high art to low trash and back again" is the most eclectic and useful movie show on TV. Grant has spotlighted unsung or unseen European and Asian directors, silent classics, favorite divas (e.g., Tuesday Weld) and surreal rarities (a moon-walking midget on the Venezuelan variety show Sensationalissimo!). Grant also pays tribute to "deceased artistes" you might not be aware had died--or had ever lived. In an age when the megamovie blitz is annihilating the art film and the B film, such expert devotion...