Word: surrealness
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...Pacific Northwest (Forks has migrated north to Vancouver) to the sun-drenched Tuscan glories of Volterra (the Italian scenes were filmed in Montepulciano, no doubt to the eternal gratitude of its tourism board), give the movie a richer feel, even as it maintains its indie sound track and occasionally surreal diversions. Twihards will appreciate director Chris Weitz's faithfulness to the source text, even as he improves on it. And Weitz (with the help of Lautner's abs) might suddenly find himself responsible for a series of mass conversions: from Team Edward to Team Jacob...
...time for even a small word like wow? Yes, it's surreal. Absolutely. And it's such a different experience. It's equally rewarding, but just in a different way. It reaches so many people. I'm used to independent movies...
...Watching this campaign grow from a tiny operation in a small office with a half-dozen people to the largest, most organized political organization in history, and now being on the cusp of seeing Barack Obama take the oath of office, is surreal to say the least." - Reflecting on the Obama campaign during the transition. (The Georgetown Hoya...
...humanist.” Here in the U.S., media reactions have been more muted: a faithful reflection of our general domestic indifference toward the intricacies of Gallic theory. (That the anthropologist shares his name with the most American of institutions, a denim manufacturer, lends his fate something of a surreal twist; a Google image search intersperses pictures of primitive art with links to purchase boot-cut flares.) Yet Lévi-Strauss deserves a moment of genuine recognition and remembrance—his life, if perhaps not completely successful in the ways he would have hoped, suggests the rich possibilities...
...This piece is...a little more surreal in context and performance,” Sanford Biggers, the 2009 Marshall S. Cogan Visiting Artist, says of his most recent exhibition which opens in Memorial Hall today. An imaginative artist who experiments in many types of media, Biggers’ innovative and bizarre work has been shown in museums around the world, including the Tate Modern in London and the Whitney in New York. His 2007 piece, “Blossom,” is a 15-foot tall reconstruction of a tree whose trunk penetrates and supports a life-size piano...