Word: surrealness
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...Once only available as samizdat-style photocopied pamphlets, this year fans of Kevin Huizenga's comix have finally been rewarded with a regular, aboveground series. One of the most promising of a new generation of cartoonists, Huizenga's stories use a combination of the quotidian and the surreal to explore themes of science, nature, religion and family. One episode spends twenty pages interpreting a single moment when a character becomes blinded by the sun coming through a library window. Using whimsy to explore the metaphysical, Huizenga's Or Else, consistently surprises with its intelligence and artistry. Get It 'Or Else...
...John Smith, starring Colin Farrell and Christopher Plummer. Fox News, the first media organization to publish a review of “The New World,” dubbed the movie “Pocahontas on Acid” before elaborating with a string of adjectives: “surreal, slow, confusing, choppy, and just plain weird.” Critics are already wondering why Malick would choose an actual fourteen-year-old to play the adult Smith’s love interest, or why the film jumps around in time without any warning or explanation...
...brilliance and innovation of the interpretation by director and set designer Burkle triumphs over the occasionally weak acting. The haunting red umbrellas take Ioensco’s rhinoceroses beyond the absurd and into the surreal; the HRDC production transcends a mere illustration of the script and creates a work of art in its own right...
...life. If only they were making a joke—are they?—they would have my vote in a flash. Whether it be the fabricated personas—candidates touted as reformers, or outsiders, or people with experience—or megalomaniacal schemes, there is something surreal about the orgiastic frenzy of these people playing pretend. (Guys, wait 20 years and run for Senate.)It is lamentable that someone must win this race; students can best serve their real interests—giving the UC a recognition of the tedium and mundanity of its proper work?...
...Phoebe's fella on Friends, did you ever feel like the seventh wheel? They couldn't have been more welcoming. It was surreal to sit in the coffee shop. It was also weird being in something people were actually going...