Word: unrealism
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...chance for me, but I wasn't sure what I wanted. The whole idea when I started writing to colleges was so unreal. All the time I was preparing to go back to Poland." she says...
...connotes "sex" and Disney's geometric logo type mouse suggests "family." But the bunny and the mouse have more than just prominent ears in common. Playboy equals naughty adult fun; Disney, whole some kid fun. Disney and Playboy are both purveyors of fantasy: Playboy makes real women seem unreal; Disney makes unreal adventures seem real. The Playboy mansion is a sort of Disneyland for adults; Disneyland is the Playboy mansion for kids...
Says Ozick: "It just seems unreal to be 55-that's for one's mother. I find it's a kind of second adolescence, though much harder. Physical changes, like having your hair turn white, must be at least the equivalent of being a little girl growing breasts. Before, you were always full of the future: some day you are going to do this. And some day is here or it's never going to be here. It's frightening, as if a needle got stuck in the record of life...
...ambition is really for the country," he said. "You may think that's just talk, but it's what drove me in combat, it's what drove me in the space program, and it's what drives me to be President." He sounded a little unreal, as if he were speaking for the symbol he had become. Yet he sounded convinced, too, and somehow convincing...
...author describes such rogues, they live their resolutely unreal lives with a style that touches gallantry. His account is as close to Binion's as a prudent soul will venture, but Alvarez knows both poker and the writing of English, and even if he does call bettors "punters," this field guide is the reader's equivalent of an inside straight. -By John Skow