Word: surrealness
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...surreal aspect about all this is that those people ready to die for exams after vacation are really fighting for the extra two or three weeks in September...
...that was when the situation began to seem almost surreal to me. It occurred to me that these students were choosing fiction over life, a well-muscled Rocky-Rambo as hero, instead of the motley reality of the Vietnam experience that was parading below their windows. Rambo was a hero--tough, honorable, simple, yet sensitive, devoted to a cause, and a cause that was right. You could root for Rambo. How could these students not prefer him over real Vietnam vets--all-too-real reminders of the ambiguous nature not only of the Vietnam War, but of human beings...
With so many of their farms and oil businesses going bust, Oklahomans may have begun to feel that the sprightly lyrics "You're doin' fine, Oklahoma! Oklahoma, O.K." of the famous Rodgers and Hammerstein tune suddenly sound tinny and surreal. The state was beset by 13 bank failures in 1985, more than in any year since the Depression, as well as more than 6,000 bankruptcies and farm-loan defaults. Still, Sooners were not prepared for the latest bad news: the oil well on the lawn of the state capitol in Oklahoma City has gone dry. Nicknamed Petunia when drilled...
...desperadoes took over the courtroom, said Journalist and Hostage Dominique Guillet upon his release a few hours later, "there was a surreal moment when the hostage takers became the magistrate and the jury." That seemed to be precisely what the leader of the criminal gang, Defendant Georges + Courtois, 38, had in mind when he demanded that television cameras be brought into the courtroom. "You have been judging me," the gaunt Courtois said with icy calm. "Now it is our turn to judge you." Waving a pistol and smoking a cigar, he launched into a lengthy harangue, warning that the "slightest...
Glynn's technique is freewheeling and effective. As all successful developers of surreal estate know, the best investment is in facts, details, odds and ends of the real world. There is little doubt that most of the + brutal and absurd acts that the author embellishes can be documented in newspapers and police blotters. If you think it is impossible to steal a roof, check it out. Is Glynn exaggerating when he writes headlines like LANDLORD TOSSES OUT EPILEPTIC AND DEAF-MUTE . . . SHE SHAKES, HE CAN'T HEAR, THEY GET BOOT? Only slightly...