Word: surrealness
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...flight can continue on in this surreal fashion for a while, with the oxygen masks dangling from the ceiling like so many IV lines, and passengers will usually remain relatively calm, as evidenced by video taken inside the Qantas flight. Decompression may be scary, but it is survivable...
...began one of the more surreal errors in post-9/11 America. Agents from a rainbow spectrum of agencies occupied Kurtz's home for several days, blocking off his street and setting up a biohazard shower to hose down investigators leaving the residence. (click here for a video about the raid created by Kurtz's art ensemble.) Agents would not let Kurtz retrieve his cat, Bean. Having lost his wife, his home and his pet in the span of 48 hours, Kurtz decided to get a lawyer. He told a friend at one point, "I just need to pretend Hope...
Colbert is the series' rock, and a straightman contrast to the constantly yammering Person, his driver. As the stoic enigma and the hopped-up smart-ass speed through the desert landscape, you could almost take Kill for a surreal road comedy. The drama of this outstanding miniseries, and its horror, comes from knowing where that road leads...
...Rinderspacher, a friend Metzler has stayed with, worked for two days to move items out of his irrigation and landscaping business. Flood water came within a foot of his building, then stopped. "It's kind of surreal," he says. "Physically, you're exhausted from doing all this stuff and emotionally you're exhausted from thinking about it and wondering what...
...through life without thinking much about our mitochondria - the small power producers within our cells. We remember them, if at all, as blobs in cell diagrams from biology class. But, by controlling cell differentiation, movement, death and growth, they are crucial to keeping us alive. And in the surreal, over-the-top and often unintentionally humorous biomedical horror Parasite Eve, Japanese novelist Hideaki Sena depicts them as sentient beings - so indignant over our indifference that they want to wipe us out and take over the world. Of course the notion is far-fetched, but the endosymbiotic theory of mitochondria, which...