Word: surrealness
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...bravado, Herr made a point of being wherever the action was hottest, convinced that the war's "secret history" must exist there: "Somewhere on the periphery of that total Viet Nam issue whose daily reports made the morning papers too heavy to bear, lost in the surreal contexts of television, there was a story that was as simple as it had always been, men hunting men. a hideous war and all kinds of victims...
...city and finds the remains of a movie monster named Macho Kong (no kin to King Kong). Hearing a whimpering sound within the monster's body, Marcello the gardener pulls out a baby chimpanzee, whom he treats like a child. "It's a fantasy film. You know, surreal," says Mastroianni, 53. "But after all," he asks with a Latin shrug, "isn't life like that...
...Pucker-Safrai Gallery at #173, a couple of blocks from the Public Library, is currently exhibiting a collection of Marc Chagall's graphics, in honor of his 90th birthday. Chagall's art has the surreal. fantastic quality of a fairground where the sideshows never end. He depicts horses and riders cavorting inside sitting rooms and paints the moon suspended from the branches of a potted plant. His figures generally ignore the dictates of Isaac Newton. People glide, lean, float and spin like marionettes. Sometimes they are gigantic, towering ever a pink Eiffel Tower like the Harlequia-costumed "Magicien en Rose...
...since Yeats announced that "the center cannot hold," the literature of disintegration has hardened like concrete. Hemingway's nada and Fitzgerald's crackup are now preserved in cliché. It takes talent and ingenuity to put a new face on collapse. A touch of satire and the surreal have become requisites...
...system seems as bizarre as that of show biz. Sums paid the big stars appear surreal when compared with other salaries. But the trouble is, such comparisons are specious. For in reimbursing a star, whether of stage, screen or playing field, the entertainment industry is not really paying an employee so much as making a capital appropriation. It is not by chance that in show biz a popular figure is called a hot "property." The star actually is the product to be sold. That the price of such properties has soared is not surprising in a personality-craving society...