Word: unreal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John Domini (who does teach Expos 18) are a lot more fun to read than any Expos paper. Domini's authorial voice is far from polished, his imagery and recurrent motifs reveal some weird phobias and preoccupations, but by and large the events that unfold in real and unreal locales (two stories are set after death and one involves astral projection) compel and haunt...
...first hit the courts six years ago. oversized tennis racquets immediately drew the scorn and skepticism of any self respecting tennis player. But the innovation has come to corner the racquet industry as it siphons off 40 per cent of the total market sales. Promising and apparently serving up unreal results, its geriatric stigma has now disappeared...
...opportunity? First, and for the 100th time, Robert Duvall is magnificent as Kilgore, and when he heaves out that guttural "I love the smell of napalm in the morning," his power is unbelievable. So much of Apocalypse Now is unbelievable; the jungle, the eerie lights of the encampments, the unreal G.I. show, Wagner pouring out of choppers. Francis Ford Coppola comes so close to coaxing this monstrous myth into flight. Yet, at the end he fails because he abandons it. Making myth isn't enough for Coppola, he has to lay bare Evil. But a behemoth--like Marlon Brando, fingering...
...comforting that in this plastic and synthetic age, the American people are being led by a man who prefers to spend some time in simple work and private communication with nature. It seems unreal that munching canape's in the Hamptons (wherever that is) would be preferable to the glories of the out-of-doors...
...Unreal? Naturally. Bizarre? Of course. Irving takes considerable pleasure in bucking the normal expectations of an audience. The prevailing taste of most contemporary readers is for realism, especially when the technique applies to incredible romances and hollow documentary fiction. Garp proved that there was a large unfulfilled appetite for imaginative literature-for the athletically contorted novel that, nevertheless, rings emotionally and psychologically true...