Word: unrealness
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Next day the Nazis invaded The Netherlands. It was a weird, unreal world in which Audrey, the gay-grave dreamer of fairy tales, found herself: a world where terror lurked in every shadow and neighbors could disappear overnight. Audrey's own uncle, a prominent lawyer in Arnhem, was one of the first victims of Nazi "discipline." He was shot as one of six hostages in retaliation for a plot to blow up a German train. Audrey's cousin, an adjutant at the royal court, was also executed...
Last week the burning issue of AD-X2, an additive powder supposed to prolong the life of storage batteries, came before the Senate Small Business Committee. The testimony had a curiously speculative, unreal and alchemical quality as if this storage battery* had been invented by Alchemist Zozimus of Panopolis and AD-X2 concocted by Cagliostro...
...quick, vivid shots the Martians are not seen on the screen. But the story is occasionally told from the Martian point of view, as seen through a shimmering, eyelike bubble of film. Director Jack Arnold has made good use .of the barren brooding desert expanses with their lonely, unreal look of another world, and the picture is well acted, particularly by Richard Carlson as a mystically inclined astronomer. As was more or less inevitable, the picture is in 3-D, but the extra dimension does not add much to the drama. It is the least obtrusive depth process to date...
...comedy, with special pokes at Cole Porter and Frank Loesser. The plot of the main show, however, can only be a parody of Rodgers and Hammerstein-with all the unnatural villainies and pat romances which on occasion have plagued the team. This time, the action is so melodramatic and unreal that the audience cannot accept the characters as people...
...exception to this one's clarity, Saper's psychological piece treats the strange behavior of a young man at his brother's piano concert. Even allowing for the mental aberrations exhausted in this type of story, "The Hammerklavier" is incomplete. Ralph, Waddy, and the mother emerge only as unreal people in a jumbled and embarrassing dream...