Word: unreal
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Cozzens’ Andrei, who enters with an artificial stomach to indicate his weight gain. Not only did the audience react, but Cozzens appeared close to laughter himself. Though the literal representation of Andrei’s weight gain is important, if the costume is to appear so unreal and the actor so uncomfortable, the padding must be sacrificed...
...custom-made (they won't confirm or deny plastic surgery). "To Japanese, we are like anim? characters," Kyoko sighs over a five-course dinner in a private room at their favorite Tokyo restaurant. Mika nods. (By Mika's estimate, her older sibling does 90% of the talking.) "We look unreal," Kyoko adds. "We do and say what we please?and we are criticized for it. A country that doesn't allow women that kind of freedom is suffocating for us. We would love to live in, say, Los Angeles...
...from T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, adapted and directed by Mercedes Murphy. Dealing (in part) with the barren aftermath of the tragedy of World War I, the poem took on new meaning in dealing with the tragedy, as New York City became the “Unreal City” of the poem. With harrowing background music by Samrat Chakrabarti, the difficult piece emerged as a relevant theatrical moment...
...American in America, I thought the danger to me unreal, that only the hate was real. Now my identities have been fused in the heat of battle. I am no longer safe, and as an American and as a Jew I have a single enemy. It is no accident that one of the pilots who flew passenger jets into crowded office towers was wanted for a bus bombing in Israel 16 years...
...mood in the Gorbachev camp after Vilnius was bleak. Some wanted to leave him. Others stayed on, trying, as one put it, "to glue back together whatever we can" of perestroika. Life took on a faintly unreal quality. Between then and August, I saw a lot of one man who was, in the official hierarchy, among the top four or five leaders of the Soviet Union. (In fact his powers were more modest, though his access to information was extremely wide). We would sit in his massive office at the Kremlin, often for a couple of hours at a time...