Word: unreality
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...pilgrim at a reliquary, her mother's concern about Harlan's grasp on "reality" begins to seem justified. Starting from the Spirit of Scandinavia Sardines, Harlan's train of thought takes off and plows through an existence where there is no boundary between the real and the unreal, the true and the untrue. From sardines she jumps to the slave-ships of the Middle Passage, to the fake Moroccan leather of the bag of the woman beside her to the mosquito on the cover of the woman's Scientific American...
...Dancing Baby, first created by Unreal Pictures Inc., was released in August 1996 as a prototype to demonstrate the capabilities of the new character animation system for 3D Studio MAX. Originally, the creators made an adult skeleton dance. Next, they had an alien dance. None of these characters made an impact. But one fateful day, the designers superimposed an image of a large plastic baby doll over the dancing adult skeleton. A star was born. Shortly thereafter, company employees began sending the animation file through email, and soon it became an Internet favorite, accompanied by music ranging from B.J. Thomas...
...felt as if I had become part of a badly written novel, that someone was taking me to task for being utterly unreal," says Okada. While the story does has some surreal flashes, it is anything but unreal or badly written. Murakami's characters, though almost all off-kilter in some way, are never so ridiculous that they become unbelievable...
...visibly weak now, suffering from recurrent bouts of malaria and, reportedly, a bad heart condition. But even so, there was something unreal about the televised jungle trial. When the rehearsed ranting of his accusers was finished, young soldiers respectfully guided the vilified leader to a waiting vehicle, which took him to a house in the jungle, possibly the last time the outside world will ever see him. Gone too was any likelihood that he will ever be brought to real justice for instigating some of this century's most unspeakable crimes...
...biff-bam adventure series. Just how hard can she bop the bad guys without coming off as an ape in drag? And how much can she fiddle with makeup or fret over runny panty hose before a reader of either sex decides that yeah, yeah, too much verisimilitude is unreal...