Word: surrealness
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...Shorty, which sets a stubble-faced recluse incongruously in a sleek green silk wingback chair. (Soon after the portrait was finished, Shorty burned to death in his shack.) An eerie vision of a Mushroom Picker in the subterranean farms of Pennsylvania casts the tiny fungus caps in an almost surreal drama of light and shadow...
Love at Twenty, a five-part emotionless inspection of passion, is a strange blend of the plausible and the surreal. Five directors, each from a different country, have contributed to this study, and the contributions are almost chaotically diverse...
...year and the heady inhalation of the summer, we are shocked with the rude fact of the world about us: moving books and bricks is brutal labor; traveling is vouchsafed us or forbidden; the world beckons with one hand and slaps our cheek with the other. Tremble not: the surreal veil of summer job, summer school, and summer love will soon fall around us and keep us safe until the fall...
...these excesses occur less and less frequently as the book progresses. The intrinsic importance of Hughes' narrative and analysis far outweighs what rative and analysis far outweighs whatever stylistic attractions he has to offer. On the way to his conclusions, he sketches authoritative and compelling pictures of the surreal atmosphere of a campaign, the chaos which surrounds a change in administrations, the Tolstoyan confusion from which great decisions emerge. But his eye is always on the object, he is always looking for signs of that pervasive lethargy which befogs American politics. One of the places he finds...
...Lovers of Teruel. One of those ballet movies, but this time it's for surreal, and Ludmila Tcherina, though she wobbles on her toes, gives the picture body...