Word: unrealism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this early point in the season, it seems like the Tigers (6-0, 2-0 Ivy, No. 13 nationally) will lay waste to the rest of the Ivy League. Twelve goals in two games is rather unreal, even if there isn't any offsides in NCAA field hockey this year...
...shows his affection for the hapless Dawn by making a variety of dates with her on which, he informs her ahead of time, he will rape her. It's a dangerous move on Solondz's part, but within the context of the film the threat of rape becomes so unreal, so divorced from the reality of rape or even sex that it makes the audience experience the confusion of very early adolescence in which terms like these seem an unknowable code of adulthood rather than real entities to be grappled with...
...Nordell, service in the war did not mean that he sat around trading stories. Instead, the time spent in the trenches and the jungles seemed almost unreal...
...kind of embarrassing to be writing this, 25 years later. Our college years and our protests seem both real and unreal, surreal (Oh yes, we did take lots and lots of drugs. Remember drugs?). So many of our chants and speeches--I've been poring through torn, yellowing Crimsons--seem just as naive and self-important as the grown-ups always said...
...wedded to any one style that he finds McArchitecture easy to digest. Unlike the work of Peter Eisenman or Gehry, a Koolhaas building isn't easily identifiable. "In some ways I consider that a compliment," says Koolhaas. "You work in so many conditions that it would be artificial and unreal if your work did not become very different too." One consistent element in Koolhaas' buildings, however, is a relaxed attitude toward detailing and a willingness to use extremely cheap materials. In Kunsthal, an art gallery in Rotterdam, he used unfinished concrete and corrugated plastic for walls, metal grids for flooring...