Word: unreality
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...These people are not operate in a backroom. They have to operate in fishbowl because they have government, alumni, and student's money," he added. "Harvard Management is like the Kingdom of Oz. You don't know what is real and what is unreal...
Just like reality-based TV shows, you'll turn the real into the unreal. And if you're lucky, you'll get renewed for another season...
Part of the novel's fun is the flip, slightly unreal dialogue the characters toss back and forth. Corrine, who has a crush on Jeff, asks why he won't talk seriously about his feelings. He answers, "Basically, I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them, and women sleep with men so they can talk with them." A nonwriting author of great reputation is described as "Henry James with bowel movements." Social gradations are precisely noted, and the , level of smart-alecky prose is satisfactorily high, although there are lapses. McInerney uses amuletic and quotidian...
...nomination (he has won two Tonys, along with an Oscar and an Emmy). Zaks, who had seen Walton's gallery art, suggested that he "just paint." The result was a succession of highly stylized street scenes, ablaze in sunset colors and pulsating blue-purples, yet aggressively two-dimensional and unreal. They convey the aura of city hubbub but never evoke a real place...
...procedure has been always haunted by the ghost of the innocent man convicted. It is an unreal dream." -- Judge Learned Hand...