Word: unrealness
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...Crimson, every day you think you capture the reality of an unreal world, set it in 9/11 sc type, and proclaim it to the universe, every day you turn people into profiles, life into leads, death into obits. Existence is your weather pic. You break big stories and powerful men, and big men and powerful stories. You are the powers that will be flexing young muscles; you are the turning points of the corridors of power; you dare to misspell the names of the famous and little-known alike; you valiantly rise above the blue books and problem sets...
Maybe the problem lies in the setting: it's all too typically Southern Californian, the land of t-shirts, bikinis, flourescent sweatsuits, and one-sentence condolences and philosophies. An agitated shore patrolman, blurts; "Are we looking for a person, or a thing? Is it real, or unreal?" It's all really just too stupid to be funny. The California cop tells his men; "Stretch your minds, tickle your brains, eat fish, get stoned-I don't care. We need ideas." This sounds like Jeffrey Bloom's screenwriting methodology. And, unfortunately, it doesn't work...
...untied, unbeaten, and unreal," said defensive standout Chris Dilworth. Noseguard Paul Rozak echoed his sentiments, declaring, "This is the beginning of a new era. Quincy is going to be the new jock house of Harvard...
...lack of substantive differences between today's candidates reflects the media's role in presidential campaigns, several professors said. The media "helps create a very unreal view of what is required of a president," Mass says. "The idea that a debate between two candidates on TV should determine which is better qualified is extraordinary. If one knows more facts than the other, that's not the only thing--the president, after all, has lots of people to get facts for him." Huntington agrees: "Who can govern the country best shouldn't be the one who can appeal most...
...uncertain direction of the economy stands in ironic contrast to the similarly unsettled conditions that prevailed during Carter's first presidential drive in 1976. At that time, the immediate outlook suggested not the illusion of stable recovery and growth that now prevails, but an equally unreal threat of an approaching slump. Indeed, economists who worked for Gerald Ford at the time complain bitterly that misleading and later revised figures for August, September and October 1976 may have cost him the election by allowing Carter to warn of an imminent downturn under the Republicans. In fact, within three months after...