Word: unrealism
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...Importance of Being Earnest is essentially a man's play. It's a story about how two men, Algernon Moncrief and John Worthing, cross back and forth into real and unreal selves through playing the part of Ernest to win the love of the women they wish to marry. The female characters, except for the singularly (and in this case, literally) masculine Lady Bracknell--perhaps a little too enthusiastically portrayed by Cary McClelland '02 (his rasping, high pitched voice is at times over the top)--are lackluster characters. Certainly, Wilde blessed them with a number of witticisms...
...Baskett's strengths lie in his innovative angles and his combination of dramatic color and black and white. His colors often seem unreal due to burning techniques. Baskett does not accept the palette nature lends him; his own lens is more selective. This manipulation is most evident in his picture of a bright red, luminous French cafe, surrounded by a bright whiteness...
...understands what is important--peace, simplicity, honesty, and most of all, hope. She has injected a dose of truth into an "unreal" world defined by young millionaires, arrogance, and short-lived stars...
...first it seemed like an unreal kind of world...[but] I began to see how important it was," Dunn says. "I was in a place that was pretty much run by women and for women...
...concludes, also highly unlikely that Dodi and Diana were planning to marry. Not only was that final diamond ring he bought her "vulgar," according to a friend, but, Smith writes, "the days they spent alone were a mere 25. They floated along in an existence that was intense and unreal...[Their romance] was perhaps the clearest evidence that she had made little progress in dealing with her demons." Two summers ago, her fans wept, saying, Diana, we hardly knew ye. With this book, it is now safe to say, Diana, we know more than enough...