Word: surrealness
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...Basement Tapes, contains 24 songs, and is one of Dylan's best albums. Musically it is a transition between the assertive, nihilistic Blonde on Blonde (1966) and the mystical John Wesley Harding (1968). The tunes on The Basement Tapes are pithy, dense and funny. There are bizarre, surreal lyrics like Million Dollar Bash and traditional-sounding folk ballads like Apple Suckling Tree. But the album is stronger than all its songs put together. There is fellowship evident here as well as skill. It is easy to hear the group fueling each other, having a good time. They seem...
...Like any kind of analysis, this can easily be carried to dangerous extremes, but applied cautiously and selectively, it can add new dimensions to both the fiction and the reality. A dull life can be suddenly transformed through the prism of fine words and sensitive observations, or a Technicolor-surreal tale reduced to believable black and white when it is seen as a reflection of an actual incident...
With the soldiers and the refugees came rumors and gossip, which sometimes were printed by the Saigon press as though the editors wished they could be true. In this surreal atmosphere, the entire city seemed to have heard that China had invaded North Viet Nam, precipitating a coup in Hanoi and necessitating the withdrawal of seven Communist divisions from the South; that U.S. Marines had landed at Vung Tau, Danang and Cam Ranh. "It is like a dream," admitted a Saigon journalist...
...curious turnabout took place once the story did become public: the CIA had nothing more to say about Jennifer. The formula seemed simple if slightly surreal: "We'll tell you something if you won't tell anybody; now that you've told everybody, we won't tell you anything...
...Things do lie at times. At the fair I saw a naked woman walking along the ceiling." But, she retorts, "This was not done with mirrors." Cocteau's French text has her say that the feat has "nothing to do with a machine." Machines, in this case, suggest the surreal aspects of the play more directly, anticipating the striking automatism of Death. Machines convey more than a link to the inhuman realm of the mirror; they also elaborate on the idea that the contemporary world has tried to preserve some fascination and belief in the supernatural by turning to technological...