Word: surrealness
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...True, but this is a new millennium, and the gilding of Harry Potter seems to have worked. The carefully built-up demand produced long lines of customers and the curious at the many U.S. bookstores open for business at the crack of last Saturday. Some of these settings seemed surreal. At Books of Wonder in lower Manhattan, local TV and print reporters swarmed among the expectant book buyers. "The A.P. has already hit us," said Dave Lambert, 28, who was waiting with his girlfriend. "You've got two lines here, one interviewing the other." A p.r. woman called out, "Anybody...
What these Williamsburg wannabes have in common is that they are motivated equally by a desire to have their kids reconnect to their history and a desire to attract tourists. The result can be a bit surreal and even disconcerting. The quaint shopping areas sell mainly souvenirs. The history is generally sanitized. But it's important not to be cynical. In a pioneering, road-loving America, one can sense a sincere yearning to re-establish roots and restore community identity...
...excess." True, but this is a new millennium, and the gilding of Harry Potter seems to have worked. The carefully built-up demand produced long lines of customers and the curious at the many U.S. bookstores open for business at the crack of Saturday. Some of these settings seemed surreal. At Books of Wonder in lower Manhattan, local TV and print reporters swarmed among the expectant book buyers. "The AP has already hit us," said Dave Lambert, 28, who was waiting with his girlfriend. You've got two lines here, one interviewing the other. A p.r. woman called out, "Anybody...
...extremely strange, because the weekend before I left I wrote three papers in four days and had barely slept," said Jablon, who is also a Crimson editor. "The entire plane ride I was in this surreal dream state realizing that I had just finished." Jablon, her parents and her 19-year-old sister spent nine days in Spain, visiting both Barcelona and Madrid. Their itinerary included lots of museums and even an authentic bullfight...
...shortly after relations were normalized, I visited Vietnam. I was too young to have served in the war, but nonetheless I felt uncomfortable being there until my last day in Saigon, when I went to the old U.S. embassy. Walking up to the building was a surreal experience. Then one of the all too many street vendors approached, trying to sell me some postcards. After a week of beggars and pickpockets, I wanted to say no, but she had a kind face and offered to give me some history of the final days before the fall of Saigon. Afterward...