Word: surrealness
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...returned to his North Matthews room, Bertagna sat on his fire escape overlooking the Square as the police finally got the order to charge and went after protesters. Police fired tear gas into the Yard and students hurled them back. The whole scene was "an amazing spectacle," Bertagna recalls, "surreal, like a movie." There were battles before his eyes, bonfires, trashing and constant rumors of even more destruction elsewhere. So this was Harvard...
...Princeton Professor Richard Falk recalls a dinner held by journalists toward the end of the Ford Administration at which someone showed up wearing a rubber mask grotesquely caricaturing Kissinger's features. Brzezinski put it on and laughed and laughed. "He couldn't stop," recalls Falk. "It was surreal...
...pall of summer looms, surreal, as we endure winter in our cold corner of Cambridge. But summer's specter beckons, despite its distance, and we scramble to places like the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning, embarking on the search--the search for The Job, The Experience, The Money, or The Diversion...
Remember the manifold possibilities--if the thought of running thymidine kinase assay on enzyme preparation enthralls you, by all means go for it. Summers are too spare to squander; soon, its surreal quality will dissipate in a thick breeze. The files at OCS-OCL will translate into experience, grafted, crafted and carved by those who leaf through the binders. Aspire to a tome; accept a novelette. Hope that the thick breeze never loses its consequence, and never eschew the search
...landing barge into a geyser of exploding water. A hard eye and grim taste for simile take over in a description of a dying German truck driver, "hiccuping great gouts of cherry-pink foam . . . to the accompaniment of a sound like a slush pump." Still later, Mowat sees with surreal detachment the upper body of a man falling slowly backward while his legs and trunk remain standing...