Word: surrealness
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...been a surreal time for the students. Brandon Stiltner, a senior aerospace engineering student, and Jonathan Hess, a senior mechanical engineer, were watching TV all day but by noon they'd had enough. "We decided we needed to do something," Stiltner said. "We were worthless sitting around." So they took their six-foot Virginia Tech sign off the wall and logged into Facebook. Within the next few hours 100 people replied to their e-mail request for a vigil...
...still really in disbelief," says Stiltner. The shock of the day's shootings sank in, Hess said, as he carried the sign across campus for the vigil. "It hit me," Hess said, "to know that it was in these buildings." The media crews that swarmed campus were also surreal to Hess and Stiltner. "We could look out our window and see exactly what's on TV," Stiltner says. He watched his sign crowded with initials and prayers, awaiting the names of the victims. He shuddered. "I hope I don't have any nasty surprises...
...vivid portrait of his life before the fortune-teller. But limited by the mediocre script and plot, their significant contributions cannot rescue the film. Technically, “First Snow” boasts some shining moments but never achieves originality. Cinematography by Eric Alan Edwards lends an eerie and surreal sense to the film by incorporating images of the sparse New Mexico desert in various states of gloom. While interesting as a stand-alone project, the music by Cliff Martinez clashes with the content of the film. Classical and refined, the score falls short of creating the tense mood that...
...club/lounge/dance club’s faded jade façade or underneath its signature red-and-yellow electric sign. You have to go beyond Mass. Ave to its second address: www.hongkongharvard.com. Having landed its corner of the World Wide Web early last fall, the Kong Web site is a surreal vision of elegance and class. In place of shady clientele and garishly-lit tables are a handful of carefree twenty-somethings sipping scorpion bowls in soft candlelight. “It’s definitely sexy,” says Web designer Darrin F. Samaha, creator of the restaurant?...
...Instead of music, scenes frequently end with an almost underwater-sounding roar that builds up from a whisper and eventually overwhelms the voices. It adds a certain feeling of unreality and almost of dread to the play, and works well as a counterpoint to the action at its more surreal moments...