Word: surrealness
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...begins Darius James' first novel, a cartoonish, surreal sendup of racial stereotypes and American culture. Like these prefacing remarks, the book is hard-hitting and hilarious...
There's no justice here, Justice has a department of its own," barks Senator Hamfat Hum's aide as he turns away grant applicants. But this surreal political allegory's message seems to be that justice only exists outside the Beltway, although it requires government funding...
Vice President Dan Quayle precipitated it. He and Murphy Brown collaborated in one of those vivid, strange electronic moral pageants, like the Thomas-Hill hearings, that are becoming a new American form. This is national theater: surreal, spontaneous, mixing off-hours pop culture with high political meanings, public behavior with private conscience, making history up with tabloids and television personalities like Oprah Winfrey. The trivial gets aggrandized, the biggest themes cheapened. America degenerates into a TV comedy -- and yet Americans end up thinking in new ways about some larger matters. The little television screen, the bright and flat and often...
...general, her language border on the surreal, presumably unconsciously. She describes the swings as "what appeared to be flexible silver stalactites" and says that "Cast members were poised...with fog machines." "Inexplicably," she writes, "actors chose to spin around the stage." Does she really think that the timing and movement of actors in a seventeen-minute play that coordinates lights, script video and sound is a choice or an accident...
Americana: Harris' last meal was two large pizzas, a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, a six-pack of Pepsi, a bag of jelly beans, a pack of Camel cigarettes. Junk food was a sort of surreal motif in the case. In 1978 Harris murdered two teenage boys in order to steal their car for a bank robbery, and, having killed them, he finished the burgers they had been eating. (My theory is that Harris would be alive today if he had not eaten the burgers. That detail must have struck the jurors as the cool, novelistic touch of Satan...