Word: unrealism
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When he took to national politics there still was something unreal about him. He was a nice guy in an airplane, with a pretty wife, bumping around the country, dismayingly pleasant, shuffling his file cards and giving audiences his rouser on family and freedom. A lot of people thought that one morning they would wake up and he would be gone, back with his old footage on one of those sunny hills where aging actors go to wrinkle, with only their memories watching...
...Really Unreal...
After months of dispiriting news, thank you for the heady subject of this week's cover. Really unreal...
...statistics alone do not give a full sense of the volcano's fury. Bob Carpenter, a Portland auto mechanic, described the destruction that he saw as he rode by train across the muddy, logjammed Toutle River: "It was eerie, unreal, almost like looking at a graveyard in a London fog, with steam rising among the sheared trees and debris and only the sound of the train on the track." Susan Hobart, a reporter for Portland's Oregonian, added: "The living are not welcome here. The ground rejects you, trying to suck you into foot-deep mud. Chill winds...
...definitely wasn't. When the small, brutal battles, "police flailing their pricks," ended, Ignatius wrote, "we are lost, we are angry, it is nothing; we make it out of the park; it is over. It is meaningless and worse, it is every bit as unreal as going to a class or writing about something or doing just about anything except fucking." He thinks of the Scots attacking Rommel in North Africa in a nighttime raid, using bagpipes to freeze the Germans with stark fear, and wonders, "Maybe we needed kazoos, ten thousand blood-curdling kazooers marching down Tremont...