Word: unreality
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...comes the longed-for respite from compulsive transcribing and typing and searching for something of interest in the inevitable sameness of a campaign that never should have lasted so long. Through a television camera or a newspaper's front page, that long line of reporters peered into the unreal world of the candidates and lived to tell what they...
...find enough nourishment without having to sample every dish. Jim Hoge, the Chicago Sun-Times editor, drastically cut back his paper's coverage and space on the second day of the Democratic Convention, convinced that readers and viewers have "a sensory understanding" that conventions are so unreal that "even the fights are carefully staged...
...Plato 's Cave I, an exquisitely subtle geometrical painting by Agnes Martin, and some sculptures by Joel Shapiro and H.C. Estermann. But the art has been jammed into a Procrustean set of categories - "cultural irony," "narrative art," "objecthood" and so on. It all comes out looking pedagogical and unreal. To read Art Historian Sam Hunter laboring to convince himself and others that Andy Warhol (represented here by one 14-year-old painting) is really a narrative artist, although "nothing actually happens in the sense of conventional storytelling," is to witness one of the finer absurdities of recent writing...
...high prices, the gap is gradually being narrowed by the absence of inflation. Vacationers are pleasantly surprised to find that the prices of hotels and ski-lift tickets have stayed the same from one season to the next. Last month Swiss newspapers carried full-page ads that seemed unreal to foreigners: because of the recent rise in the franc, the prices of some Japanese cars were being cut by anywhere from...
...their offices, the court characters would be a homogenous disaster. The tech as a whole bypasses the usual primitive motifs seen in The Blacks and opts instead for the decadent absurdity of modern western taste. Ying Wu's lighting should have been considerably bolder in order to emphasize the unreal theatricality of the setting...