Word: unrealism
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...Believe in Garp" bumper stickers and sweat bands by 1980, many who had raved about America's "last Puritan" novelist were cowering amid Garpmania. The hitch was that the glowing reviews for the book had already been written Criticism of Irving's literary world--now often described as unreal and unnecessarily violent--had to wait until the publication last summer of Irving's The Hotel New Hampshire, which was panned despite hardcover sales far more brisk than its predecessor...
...practically unreal. A regular Pac-a-dream. Pac-Man, the obsessional game of pursuit and devour, is not just roaming the amusement arcade; increasingly, it is a house guest in the living room. May its fortunes increase; Warner Communications' certainly have...
What is beautiful is unreal, and what is real is perilous. Yet even in the heart of the city, people work for diversions. The sparkling new Andersons-town Leisure Center won a prize as the best of its kind in the United Kingdom. Bernadette calls it "gorgeous," and 5,000 youngsters a week steam up its three swimming pools. Elizabeth plays "the badminton" there and discos on skates in the Rollerama. Children's carnivals offer another diversion. The Youth Council of Belfast sets up small amusement parks on the weekends. On a Friday evening in September the Beechmount children...
...John Domini (who does teach Expos 18) are a lot more fun to read than any Expos paper. Domini's authorial voice is far from polished, his imagery and recurrent motifs reveal some weird phobias and preoccupations, but by and large the events that unfold in real and unreal locales (two stories are set after death and one involves astral projection) compel and haunt...
...first hit the courts six years ago. oversized tennis racquets immediately drew the scorn and skepticism of any self respecting tennis player. But the innovation has come to corner the racquet industry as it siphons off 40 per cent of the total market sales. Promising and apparently serving up unreal results, its geriatric stigma has now disappeared...