Word: unrealism
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...even if Calvino's description is alive to the senses, it remains arbitrary and unreal. It is as though, even as Marco Polo describes fifty-five out of all the cities that ever were and ever will be, Calvino chooses his images out of an infinity of possibilities, all equally sharp, all equally life-like. And when he tells of murderers who "plunge the knife into the black veins of the neck and more clotted blood pours out the more they press the blade that slips between the tendons," it is only for the sake of allegory--vivid, but purely...
Guard dogs are also popular, both at home and at work. German shepherds or Doberman pinschers can be turned loose at night in a store, or leashed, can patrol with a trainer. "Since the beginning of the year, business has been unreal," says Chuck Stewart, who manages Continental Canines Inc. in Los Angeles. "We've got dogs at doctors' offices, waterbed stores, landscapers, dress manufacturers and cemeteries...
...believed, had betrayed an ally and nullified the years of its own sacrifice. As he was about to go for coffee with some bankers and businessmen in Warren, Ark., Newspaper Editor Bob Newton remarked: "Viet Nam will never come up in the conversation. Everybody is embarrassed. It is almost unreal that this could have happened...
...some respects, Saigon retains an aura of almost unreal normality. In the markets it is business as usual. The streets, filled with Hondas, pushcarts, hookers, shine boys, beggars and wounded war veterans, are as noisy and chaotic as ever. Food is still plentiful because the roads to the Mekong Delta remain open. But tea and coffee from the Highlands, avocados and lettuce from Dalat and lobsters from Nha Trang are all bound to run out before long. Many dance halls and teahouses have been closed, and the curfew has been moved back to 9 p.m. so that diners...
...concerned. There are many kinds of relations short of serious commitment and many degrees of importance. In general, the U.S. should stop regarding the world in domino terms, not only because the image implies an automatic chain of cause and effect that is unreal but also because it poses a simplistic choice between a country that "stands" and a country that "falls." The real world is far more complex than that...