Word: surrealness
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Inside, the bar was done up Mafia-surreal: big horse-shoe-shaped counter, color t.v. competing with the jukebox in the corner, indoor-outdoor carpet on the floor. A beer cost $2.25. Men in lime-green leisure suits and white patent leather loafers whose porcine faces bulged behind drugstore sunglasses, nodded at us and cackled in a far booth. We took our beers to the cool, shaded back...
...child and woman. Her godfather Drosselmeyer, brilliantly portrayed by Alexander Minz, is both fatherly and aboil with suppressed eroticism. Baryshnikov accents mystery and the paradox of the light and dark faces of the human soul. Stage Designer Boris Aronson's huge painted panels and fantasy murals form a surreal backdrop for the enchanted events of the ballet...
...surreal stew for Octavio...
People say to me: "Jesus, you moved into some pretty surreal satire." I say: "No, I still write realistic stuff. It's the world that's gone nuts, not me. It's the world that's turned into a satire." We never lied. Everything in the movie is true-with some extensions. It's very hard to describe simply and realistically what is going on without being grotesque. I think the movie is right...
...margins. For the thousands of candidates who sweated blood for months, and years, and especially for the men who sought the presidency in this election year, the mysterious, often incomprehensible process on election day has passed final judgment. Despite the talk of packaged candidates, enormous egos and the surreal stellar auroras that surround modern candidates and campaigns, it is the ultimate importance of that single day balanced against vast amounts of time, money and effort that condemns the Fords and Carters and those who surround them to their special unreality...