Word: surrealness
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...bucks a shot and got blown up by bicycles laden with explosives; NLF agents lived next door to petty government officials. Hundreds of crippled war veterans angrily confronted the state with demands for housing and health care, descending on the presidential palace, in wheelchairs and on crutches, like some surreal army. It was all to much for Americans to think about...
...sign of the sequence's new importance is found in the fact that last year the internationally prestigious photography magazine, Camera, devoted two special issues to the genre. Photography, probably just because it appears to reproduce reality, has always been able to create the grotesque and surreal, and these issues demonstrated that the sequence was particularly well suited to creating fantastic moments out of a series of everyday images. One of the earliest practitioners of the sequence, Duane Michaels, uses eight frames in one of his works to show a young girl coming into a room and climbing into cardboard...
Privately over the past year, he has expressed his lack of interest in the deanship, a job he regarded almost as surreal when compared to his work in labor negotiation. Every Friday during his tenure as dean. Dunlop was in Washington arbitrating as head of the Stabilization Board, and he seemed to relish his weekly sojours as a respite from the pettiness of Faculty politics...
...contrast was surreal. After a weekend of pre-Christmas festivities at the White House, Richard Nixon flew to the Florida sunshine, Henry Kissinger in tow, with not a word to the country or the world about Viet Nam. But the President's message to the enemy was as unmistakable as it was brutal. First he ordered a new seeding of North Vietnamese harbors with mines. Then he launched the biggest, bloodiest air strikes ever aimed at the North. Nixon seemed determined to bomb Hanoi into a settlement that he is willing to accept. As the old year gave...
AMPHIGOREY by Edward Gorey. Unpaged. Putnam. $12.95. Corey's grueling tales dwell lightly on melancholia and misfortune; the illustrations are precise, deadpan and tenebrific. Together they create a quaint, surreal world where horror and humor blandly lurk on every page. Fifteen of Gorey's works are collected here, including "The Curious Sofa" (which may be the ultimate sexual instrument). Only for those who think they would like to smile at an unfurling nightmare...