Word: unrealism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work of Darger's life was a saga titled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnean War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. He wrote it in longhand, and then typed it out; the typescript ran to more than 15,000 pages. It is a seemingly endless, repetitious and obsessively detailed narrative of child martyrdom, massacre and Edenic innocence set on an imaginary planet largely populated by moppets...
...talked the talk of fatherhood, he walked the walk. Ennis Cosby was not a brat. He was a teacher. Now it's his father who'll have to be one. Bill Cosby has a new role as a model of loss, a paragon of violent bereavement. In Hollywood, privileged, unreal, incredible Hollywood, where imagination transforms reality, reality is taking the upper hand. It's as though the gods of drama have ordained that our entertainers must now act out America's most awful true-life conflicts, no longer just its escapist fantasies...
...virus from infected men. They talk about a "second wave" among younger gay men. For those over, say, 35, tending to a sick friend or being tended has been a nearly universal experience. For those in their 20s, it's a rarity. When the epidemic becomes unreal, the libido is unbolted. Jason is a 19-year-old Los Angeles sales clerk who learned that he was infected at 16. There were AIDS education programs at his high school, but the message never hit home. "You're young, you think you're invincible," he says. "And then--wham! Reality gets...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "[A]n anti-immigrant sentiment is growing from an unreal perception that immigrants only come to the United States to take advantage of our generous society and become a burden on the state...Nothing could be further from the truth...
...features splendid acting and, of course, the perennial treat of Pinterian dialogue. The show succeeds in being entertaining and often engrossing--when it doesn't attempt to put a spin on the mystery of the characters' motivations. But when director Schevey fiddles too much with the sense of the unreal intrinsic to Pinter's works, things tend to go awry...