Word: surrealness
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...Somehow, though, the Chief Secretary was able to keep most of his appointments?meetings that bordered on the surreal for being so routine. Through a capital girding itself for battle, he made his way to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where he tried to convince American businessmen that the future of Hong Kong's economy was bright. The next afternoon, he met U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, the only foreign leader to do so in the days immediately following the attacks. They discussed Hong Kong politics as warplanes circled overhead. "It might seem strange," says an aide...
...most immediate effects will be in TV, and not just late-night. The Emmy Awards, rescheduled for Oct. 7, currently plan to scrap host Ellen DeGeneres' monologue and a skit about President Bush and Al Gore. Comedies like Friends and Sex and the City will seem surreal, maybe even grotesque, if they return to a happy Manhattan where no one looks up in worry upon hearing a plane. Creator Aaron Sorkin of The West Wing, his fictional White House dramatically outdone by reality, has written a special episode dealing with issues raised by the terror attacks...
Images of dogs, mutants and social outcasts permeate all 12 stories in Dogwalker. The first person narrator, who remains relatively consistent throughout, explores a dark, sinister and twisted world with such unperturbed sang-froid that the most outrageous and absolutely surreal events seen like common place occurrences. The passive and directionless narrator of each story lacks any roots or real home. He is a loner whose life is dictated by chance and who passively allows fate to govern his existence. A motley collection of three-legged dogs, mutated puppies, deformed human beings, psychopaths, overgrown slugs, drug addicts, women who practice...
...result of their union. The plot thickens when this little man impregnates a woman who is living in an iron lung and helps spawn four talking puppies. The story ends when the narrator finds these four puppies and tells us that he has finally found a family. This surreal story is told in such a terse, direct way that one begins to forget that there anything unusual about...
This was the surreal reality in which I and thousands of others found ourselves. My co-worker held my hand tightly and we helped each other across Water Street in the direction of South Street Seaport. We had our bearings enough to know that if we could get to the Seaport, turn left and walk north under FDR Drive, we would hopefully, eventually, meet daylight...