Word: unreal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Southern California. The book desiccated human experience. As Didion now sees it, her novel was "a way to work out my own feelings of aridity." Yet as a work of fiction, Play It As It Lays enabled the reader to taste-in Poet Wallace Stevens' phrase-"the unreal of what is real...
...funerals, rolling through the streets of the provincial capital, have become commonplace, although judicious citizens take pains to ignore the processions. Explains a local journalist: "If you don't watch the funerals and don't get involved, this place is as safe as Disneyland." And much more unreal...
...weekly Almanac de Gotham lays down standards of aspiration, acceptance and rejection as rigid as any set by Louis Quatorze. Along with genuinely useful "urban survival" features, it gives the insecure a superior feeling of being inside, offering them a blend of fact and fantasy. It portrays an unreal stream-of-consumption world whose Gucci'd, Pucci'd denizens glide between Parke-Bernet (the t is not silent) and La Grenouille (the maitre d's name is Jean), send their children to the Dalton School, winter in St. Maarten or Gstaad, summer in the Hamptons, patronize...
...days, it has, in Chayefsky's view, entered its own dark ages. In its frantic race for ratings, it has become debased, an extension of a corporate way of life that Chayefsky sees "dehumanizing all of us. " Last week Chayefsky talked to TIME about Network-and the real, unreal world of television. Excerpts...
...Dwarfs, Mark Creatura's hyperactive portrayal of Len makes a farce out of the man's search for identity, obscuring Pinter's statements on the problems of self-identification and the perception of external realities. Len's passage through mental collapse and into maturity often seems crazed and unreal. And although his two friends are effectively played by Steven Naifeli and Christopher Chase, the production fails to express the dynamically changing relationship between the three men. It also fails to illuminate Len's intriguing responses, emphasized at each turning point in the relationship by the invasion of the dwarfs into...