Word: unrealness
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...sequence exemplifies Vigo's approach throughout the film. He takes a pillow fight, a normal event in a dorm of twelve-year-olds, and transforms it into a fierce and successful weapon against authority. Then he cuts all this furious activity to a halt and momentarily renders it quite unreal. The pace of the slow-motion section underlines the wildness of the fight and its stylization makes the preposterous pillow victory seem very real by contrast...
...kindred. Unhappily, the literary parallel, though it lends the piece a certain spurious redolence of tradition, proves a pathetic fallacy. Shakespeare's lovers seem silly in the gilded palazzi of romantic old Verona; in the rancid tenements of unremitting megalopolis, West Side Story's lovers seem simply unreal and finally uninteresting...
...News, News, News." As edited by Christiansen, the news was not only exciting, it was sometimes unreal. When an Express reporter described a condemned murderer as "a dreamer with the eyes of a poet," Christiansen sent another man out to collect a verse from the killer. The paper soon had its poem. "There was no explanation as to how it had fallen into our hands," said Christiansen in his book. "Nor did I dare inquire." Nor was he surprised to learn later that the poem had been ghosted by a Fleet Street colleague. Throughout the war, the Express maintained...
This basic, or existential, anxiety (which Niebuhr sees as the precondition of sin) is no more disturbing, in normal quantities, than is rational fear of danger. In contrast, neurotic anxiety is irrational fear, a response to a danger that is unknown, internal, intangible or unreal. Anxiety is fear in search of a cause. Authorities differ on the relationship of guilt to anxiety, but Dr. John Donnelly of Hartford's Institute of Living offers what is for laymen the most sense-making distinction: guilt is apprehension over some transgression in the past, whether actually committed or merely contemplated, whereas anxiety involves...
Hinky Dink's. The Trader does little to discourage the legend that his leg was snipped off by an unfriendly shark in the islands. But the story is as unreal as his menu. Born in California, he grew up in Oakland, where his parents ran a small grocery. At the age of six, a tuberculosis attack cost him his left leg; despite the handicap, Bergeron was so agile on his crutches that he played for his grammar school soccer team. He quit school at 16, two years later was able to buy his first wooden leg. For the next...