Word: unreality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bleak moonscape, Scott compared it to a great desert. "This is absolutely mind-boggling," he said. The scenery was apparently even more mind-boggling after the spacecraft descended to a lower orbit of only ten by 67 miles. Crossing over the towering Apennines, Scott said: "Why, it's just unreal ... the mountains jut out of the 'ocean.' They appear smooth and rounded. There aren't any jagged peaks that...
...collectors and museum curators like to talk in terms of world culture; but in the auction house they behave like chauvinists. Many critics have noted how the cult of masterpiece value caricatures the historical values of art by creating an unreal scale of "importance." It is equally probable that the cost for acquisitions does violence to geographical as well as historical culture by making it hard for countries to hold the art they have against the battering pressure of foreign capital...
Yale Daily News sports editor Mike Goodman agrees. "Harvard is no place for a Yale man. Everyone is much too serious, much too intense, and much too unreal. Playing Harvard at Harvard is like battling all divinity and nature as well...
...sensuality without the usual physical equipment. "The chance to explore such a mysterious, intriguing character was splendid," she says. "I hold little shrift with Lawrence's men-and-women-at-war philosophy, but in Gudrun he created a character that was absolutely fascinating, even if she was totally unreal...
...gone almost too smoothly. Now it all seemed nearly as unreal as had that crowded bullpen a few days before. I was not sure why it had been so difficult to decide to spend Holy Week fasting and protesting against a nation's policies which seem so ludicrous as to be figments of my imagination...