Word: unreal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...front yard, take small comfort in the ancient Buddhist temples of Luangprabang. To a certain extent, Cambodians could relive the triumphs of the Khmers in the resounding rhetoric of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who at least kept the kingdom independent. Clearly, if the past sometimes seems impossibly remote and unreal to Indochina's long-suffering peoples, that is the result of an all too real present...
Similarly, the musical Purlie, fashioned from the straight play Purlie Victorious, which opened on Broadway in September 1961, has become peculiarly quaint. The downtrodden, stereotypical Negroes whom it portrays seem uncannily unreal. Blacks have taken large, if not mighty, strides forward from the Purlie Victorious caricature, as much in their own minds as in white eyes...
...lost. we are angry, it is nothing: we make it out of the park; it is over. It is meaningless and worse, it is every bit as unreal as going to a class or writing about something or doing just about anything except lucking...
...lilting show tunes by Balanchine's longtime friend, George Gershwin. The backdrop is a softly focused photo of the Manhattan skyline, suggesting the unreal city of cities in countless half-remembered Astaire musicals. The casual costumes look as if they might have dressed the working chorus in a hundred would-be Show Boats that never made it down the Hudson. Only the opening and closing numbers, Strike Up the Band and / Got Rhythm, have so far been orchestrated for a brassy pit band. The rest of the evening the dancers were accompanied by Pianist Gordon Boelzner, plunking away...
...corps, their cover was quickly blown. MACOI tried to brush off the incident by blaming it on a major who had approved the cards, but in fact he had merely obeyed orders. The U.S. embassy pushed for a fuller inquiry. Perhaps the Office of Information should be called the unreal MACOI...