Word: unrealism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cathy Collins' first memories are of knowing that she was adopted. The hardships of childhood--the difficulty of communicating with her parents, the cruelty of other children--all fed her belief that she was unwanted, her sense of being alien and unreal. She began abusing drugs and alcohol as an adolescent, but by freshman year discovered a better release. Using a knife or a razor, she would methodically slice open her arms. "A main part of it was to know I was real," she says. "With the blood flowing down my arms, I was real...
...incorporate sounds of real life into your work. But it seems like in your music, the noises are implanted in a very unreal framework. There's this alienation of sorts...
...while Rakow remembers very clearly throwing the punch that won her the national championship, she says her newly won rank, as number one in the nation, still feels a little unreal...
Dallas weighed in at an unreal 172 pounds, and the 22-pound difference was a formidable obstacle for Tara to have to overcome. Not familiar with Sanshou technique, the Gladiator used her brute strength to slam Tara out of the ring eight times, winning two out of the three rounds...
...pilgrim at a reliquary, her mother's concern about Harlan's grasp on "reality" begins to seem justified. Starting from the Spirit of Scandinavia Sardines, Harlan's train of thought takes off and plows through an existence where there is no boundary between the real and the unreal, the true and the untrue. From sardines she jumps to the slave-ships of the Middle Passage, to the fake Moroccan leather of the bag of the woman beside her to the mosquito on the cover of the woman's Scientific American...