Word: unrealism
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...Democratic primary, so I was out early, campaigning. It was the first time I'd ever run for office. I was at P.S. 234, a school four blocks north of the World Trade Center when I saw the first plane hit. The building burst into flames. It seemed unreal, like I was watching a horror movie. I had started the day campaigning, but I wound up the day helping to evacuate the children. I remember as a kid watching the towers being built, watching them go up from my family's apartment on Houston St., north of World Trade Center...
...conflict of dissonance—the fact that I was getting into Harvard was so unreal,” she says. “I was reading the letter and expecting to read ‘We hope you can apply again next year...
...Lanark who seems the more unreal of the two. His life, in some ways, draws a hyperbolic counterpart to Thaw’s: where Thaw suffers from eczema, Lanark contracts a horrific illness known as dragonhide. Where Thaw’s Glasgow is a dreary, workaday city, Lanark’s surroundings are a dehumanized industrial nightmare. The tales of the two men stand well on their own; read together, however, each story illuminates the other, calling out to each other across the borders of narrative to create a single masterpiece...
With its hypertrophied “realistic” tics—for instance, naming real places and real brand-names—Saunders’ vision of America is not so much unreal as hyper-real: rather like a Chuck Close painting, it is composed of parts that have a tendency to roil within themselves, or to fly off toward an entropy deforming the very figure whose representation they simultaneously create...
...when Raimondi posted the second-highest point total among Harvard rookies, all signs pointed to her eventual offensive stardom asan upperclassman. Entering her sophomore season, her teammates knew she had the skills to be a key piece to the puzzle for the Crimson. “Her shot is unreal,” Angela Ruggiero ’02-’04 said before the 2003-2004 campaign. “I’m anxious to see how Jen Raimondi is going to do,” Harvard coach Katey Stone commented when asked in October...