Word: surrealness
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...without such extensive help from central heating. Instead, those that don’t abandon the hot slog are left to swelter in a study-sauna of their own making. The stifling air has some obvious adverse effects. Passing through the reading room near dawn is almost surreal. Slumped figures drool unattractively onto their course-packs, cursing their professors in slurred whispers. Having arrived optimistically the night before with a full head of steam, students find themselves trapped in a mist of boredom. They stand no chance in the stuffy atmosphere. Further soothed by a lullaby of turning pages...
With an A&E documentary under way on her impending sex-change operation and a role on VH1's The Surreal Life, ALEXIS ARQUETTE, sibling of actors David, Rosanna and Patricia, will rival her sibs' fame?and give their kids a brand new aunt...
...cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. This time around, he contested the election on his own-and appears to have failed to win a single seat outright. The elections proved what most journalists have suspected all along: that Chalabi is one of Iraq's most despised political figures. Only in the surreal world of Iraqi politics would such a man even be considered a potential prime minister...
...cease-fire and forced the Pakistanis to open up. On the mountainsides where thousands of refugee tents have sprouted between collapsed buildings, the U.S. military is delivering drinking water to camps run by "Axis of Evil" nemesis Iran; U.S. and NATO soldiers flirt with Cuban nurses. But the most surreal partnership of all is between the U.S. military and Islamic militants from groups like Lashkar-e-Toiba, branded by Washington as terrorists. Bemused to find himself at daily briefings in Muzaffarabad with U.S. and NATO military commanders, one Pakistani militant leader, Haji Javed ul-Hassan, remarks: "This...
Bono, meanwhile, launched a final burst of back-room politicking, greasing countless surreal encounters with people who had no business being in the same room together. Days before the summit, he visited 10 Downing Street and learned that the G-8's civil-servant negotiators, or "sherpas," who put deals into precise language, were feuding over how to pay for the proposed $50 billion aid package. "We were having a beer," Blair told TIME, "and just decided we would talk to these people who'd done an incredible amount of work, to give them a sense of the importance...