Word: unrealness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gris' mind, this duality was part of the ever active debate over what was true and what false in cubist representation, where fragments of the real world (including the news) combined with unreal space. To complicate things further, the man at the café-melting away, like the elusive Pimpernel, into the wood work-probably depicts Gris' favorite character pulp fiction. He was a supercrook named Fantómas, whose nefarious deeds were eagerly devoured by Picasso, Apollinaire and everyone in the cubist circle. Appearing and disappearing at will, frustrating the law at every turn, Fant...
...situation there that was unreal," Restic says. "We just went down to the bottom. There was just complete disruption. (At times like that) you just have to drop everything and go back and start over...
...chance for me, but I wasn't sure what I wanted. The whole idea when I started writing to colleges was so unreal. All the time I was preparing to go back to Poland." she says...
...connotes "sex" and Disney's geometric logo type mouse suggests "family." But the bunny and the mouse have more than just prominent ears in common. Playboy equals naughty adult fun; Disney, whole some kid fun. Disney and Playboy are both purveyors of fantasy: Playboy makes real women seem unreal; Disney makes unreal adventures seem real. The Playboy mansion is a sort of Disneyland for adults; Disneyland is the Playboy mansion for kids...
Says Ozick: "It just seems unreal to be 55-that's for one's mother. I find it's a kind of second adolescence, though much harder. Physical changes, like having your hair turn white, must be at least the equivalent of being a little girl growing breasts. Before, you were always full of the future: some day you are going to do this. And some day is here or it's never going to be here. It's frightening, as if a needle got stuck in the record of life...