Word: unrealism
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...years between presidencies, the Harrisons twice that long. But only eight years have passed since voters tossed a Bush out of office, and they have been eight years of rampaging prosperity. Al Gore has plenty of time to argue that going back to the future would be unwise or unreal. But it is remarkable that he is having to make his case against the son of the man he and Bill Clinton exiled. "It is time for them to go," Gore chanted famously at the convention in New York in 1992. Is it already time for them to come back...
...STATS] Unreal. Extremely punctual; won't do tobacco...
...plane, distance is trivial, unreal: it is simply the price, in units of time, to a destination. I get on the plane to Chicago, sleep or read for awhile, and I am home; it has cost me two hours. I get on the plane to Athens; it costs me nine. The comfortable, familiar nothingness of plane travel belies the complexity of life on the ground...
This is not what you expected. Hip-hop in the year '00 is supposed to be dangerous, seductive, ghetto fabulous. It's supposed to be so real it's almost unreal--like something beneath an electron microscope or blown up on an IMAX screen. Hip-hop '00 is supposed to be a post-Puffy dreamscape of excess and escapism and bouncing low riders cruising down streets clogged with dancers and azure pools lined with thong-clad hotties...
...Together with the intimate, black box theater, the set produces an unreal sense of being trapped within a slippery world where everything is dangerous and unstable. Although, in the end, a few overly strong directorial choices mar an otherwise subtle and beautiful production, director Jeffrey Mousseau and his fine cast and crew for the most part present a disturbing and moving rendition of Strindberg's masterpiece. If you've never ventured beyond the hallowed halls of Harvard to check out Boston's theater scene, consider looking to the Coyote Theater's production of Miss Julie for an intimate and startling...