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...REAL--OR RATHER, GET UNREAL. TO Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar is a movie [CINEMA, Sept. 18]. Remember what that means? Fantasy. Make-believe. Fairy tale. A genre that is not always designed to inspire moral judgments or politically conscious statements. It aims to entertain, which To Wong Foo does delightfully. What if the story line is predictable? Name a fairy-tale fantasy in which it isn't. What if three drag queens drive into a small, dreary heartland town and add style, brighten lives and create miracles? We believe because we want to think miracles can still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 9, 1995 | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

...even more than that, I looked around and felt like everyone around me was totally unreal--stage props wet up for my benefit to show me all the ways I had been wrong in my vision of college and the world...

Author: By Robin J. Stamm, | Title: Struggling to Adapt to Harvard Can Be a Scary Experience | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

...know. "A dream come true," they said. The thing is, "a dream come true" is such a banal cliche that it pains me to type it. But when two rookies in a room of veterans have this conversation, the meaning is sky-blue clear. It is a shade unreal...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: A Final Look | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...claim to have been abducted by aliens, taken aboard space-ships, and forced to engage in sexual activity with their captors. A farout delusion, right? No, says Mack. He argues that the abduction experience cannot be captured by our limited imagination that sees objective and subjective, or real and unreal as eternally opposite categories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.F.O.s and Ph.D.s | 5/5/1995 | See Source »

...still unreal," Prentiss said. I'was jumping up and down walking through Harvard Square...

Author: By Edward B. Smith iii, | Title: Physics Tenures Its Second Woman Prof. | 4/13/1995 | See Source »

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