Word: unrealism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unreal," Spurr said of the DCYF visit...
Almost two decades later, Seidman's story seemsalmost unreal at a campus newspaper where womennow comprise a sizeable proportion of the 122ndExecutive Board. Since Seidman's tenure, therehave been four more female presidents of thecrimson, two over the past four years. Yet evenwhen women have achieved such positions, they maynot feel completely comfortable and accepted--thewalls of the women's bathroom at the Crimson,scrawled with such slogans as "Crush thePenarchy," are an unusual testimony to some of theprevious female executives' discontent...
Across the board, people say Rudenstine is a "fantastic" fund-raiser. Daniel C. Tosteson '46, dean of the Medical School, is described by Gordon as "unreal...
...couple movies. The sweetness that develops between them as they try to elude the rogue dea agent who orchestrated her family's death (a divinely psychotic Gary Oldman) is crazily dislocating, the more so since Besson's French vision of the New York underworld is so eerily unreal. His final shootout is masterly cinema -- this is a Cuisinart of a movie, mixing familiar yet disparate ingredients, making something odd, possibly distasteful, undeniably arresting out of them...
...only are the characters in Man is Man unreal, they also inhabit an artificial, dreamlike world. The sets by James Murdoch are disjointed and angular, with ramshackle flats giving way to railroad tracks which slices the stage diagonally. The sounds of this world are also curie; a disembodied voice announces military maneuvers, and the cool mellow jazz of the onstage quintet--featuring most notably Alex Barnett on clarinet--provides an otherworldly, impressionistic musical undercurrent. The cuminsting battle scene is recreated with nightmarish intensity through the efforts of the sound and light crew...