Word: unreal
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Heston appears as though “he comes from another planet,” Blitz says, “but I believe that all of the characters are pushed. Ginny is pushed to feel like she’s unreal in her ambition and she’s hyper-articulate [in a way] that’s unreal...
...problem comes as Blitz increasingly relies on this tension of real and unreal to take viewers through some absurd twists in the plotline, making events seem jerky and disjointed. The result is a movie that loses momentum in its second half as relationships slowly sink into irrelevance. The debate competition finale brakes too early and abruptly, and we’re left with twenty minutes of depressing anticlimax...
...feels a little unreal to be honored in such a way and particularly to be receiving such a particular award with such phenomenal other honorees," Hyde said. "My fellow honorees are people of such distinction and such great character and certainly people who I’ve looked up to for quite a long period of time...
...been an unreal period of time for the students. When school authorities finally sent out alerts about the situation, the word spread around campus quickly and electronically. Jason Piatt, a junior, was at McBride hall right next to Norris and couldn't get out of the building. "So," he says, "We're trying to figure out what was going on. One kid had a PDA [personal digital assistant] and got email and we found out there had been a shooting on the campus and they were investigating it. Then we got on our cell phones and we kind of picked...
Holding, while fantastic in the main role, seems a slightly strange choice from a physical point of view: Lucie’s tiny size is repeatedly referenced, while Holding is one of the tallest members of the cast. While this adds to the unreal and stylized aspects of the play, it also causes some confusion, as the audience constantly forgets about this until it is reminded of the character’s size again. That fact aside, her performance is riveting. She plays Lucie throughout her 67-year life with only a few personality changes to account for the transition...