Word: surrealness
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...spiritually disorienting to see a black driving a car with Alabama plates and a Wallace bumper sticker. It is surreal to walk into Wallace's state campaign headquarters, a neobellum low-rise former furniture store on the edge of Montgomery. There, amid the deep shag carpeting and the clickity-click of computer printers churning out voter lists, sits Mrs. Ollie Carter, a black Wallace worker. All day she phones around the state with a gentle, churchgoing courtesy, asking blacks for their support, reminding them to vote...
...frantic attempt to find stopgap solutions, the government of Mexico's outgoing President threw a one-two punch that has now transformed this confusion into surreal chaos. It issued a vague edict forbidding Americans to take home certain foods from Mexican markets, and it imposed ill-conceived currency restrictions designed to stem the tide of money flowing out of the country. The result: border towns on both sides are suffering even more...
...several hundred pages do we discover alternate versions of several of the family's accepted pasts. Neither time nor sight can be trusted with both ghosts and the mad genius John Quincy Zinn seeking of defy them. Modern science and spiritualism mingle in an atmosphere at once gothic and surreal...
Another title, the Marques de Pubol, has the perfect ring for the surreal image of its outre honoree, Salvador Dali...
...special privileges. The new marques is as contentious as ever, however. Last week he reportedly claimed that organizers of a retrospective had included 80 bogus canvases in the show. Pooh to Pubol, says one of the organizers, his former personal secretary Peter Moore. The works are more than surreal, they're real...