Word: surrealness
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Skakel is a Kennedy cousin--nephew of Ethel, Robert Kennedy's wife--and his money and connections have given the trial a lurid, surreal quality. At times it has read like a collage pieced together from tabloid clippings and TV-movie outtakes--a Kennedy here, an O.J. witness there. But the crime in question was very real, and the fact that for some it seemed to be solved at all--after 27 years on the books--is a triumph over hazy memories, bad luck and, above all, time...
...first thing that shocked me about this school was how normal everything was. People looked normal. They dressed normally. They talked about normal things. About a month later, I stumbled across the second surprise: the normalcy is all an act. Behind the facade is real Harvard, or, more accurately, surreal Harvard...
...refuse to enter the real world. I’m heading for the surreal...
...spectator sport. He has been romantically linked to a leading lady (Spider-Man's Kirsten Dunst), and now he's a major player in the Kidman-Cruise celebrity-gossip sweepstakes. Of Kidman, he says, "We're friends." Of his radically heightened recognizability, he notes, "It's kind of surreal, because it's pretty drastic. It's a more definitive difference than I expected. I feel like a lot of things changed within a three-day period." And no one knows better than Spider-Man that change is never easy. --Jess Cagle
Harvard Yard had some new additions this weekend: a forest of tree stumps, a surreal playground and a giant hamster wheel, among others. In the first-ever Yard installation of student art, “‘Place and Site’: A Sculptural Exploration of Harvard Yard” consists of artwork created by students of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) under the guidance of VES professors Patrick Strzelec and Jackie Brookner...