Word: surrealism
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...unbelievable and surreal that they are not giving custody of the boy to the biological father," read one typical comment. "This is only happening because the stepfather - the one with the least right to the child in question - is a rich and well-known lawyer. This story disgusts me because it is representative of thousands of other equally unjust [tales], where power speaks louder than ethics and justice...
...only did Jenny Sanford avoid looking like a fool for literally standing by her man, she didn't have to be associated with what quickly devolved into a p.r. train wreck. (His rambling, 18-minute speech included weeping, a mention of his lifelong love of camping and a "surreal" conversation he'd recently had with his father-in-law.) (See the top 10 political gaffes...
...EARTH Just next door, Thai ceramicist Somluk Pantiboon's sculptural earthenware is on display at Earth (91 Hollywood Road). His glaze work is especially fine; the tenmoku, or "eye of heaven," pieces radiate with a surreal, otherworldly beauty...
Aesthetically, the new Prisoner is a feast. The Village, manicured and painted in cartoon pastels, has a menacing gaiety. (The show was filmed on location in southern Africa, and it's shot through with gorgeous lemony light.) The miniseries shows flashes of surreal playfulness: the only foods served at any occasion in the Village, for instance, are wraps. (You just knew they were evil.) And the sound track is heavy on Brian Wilson's Smile, his opus begun around the time of the original Prisoner, which lends this version a dreamlike carnival tone...
...charms first and foremost in its framing device: Peterson is cast as his own narrator before an audience that seems to applaud at his command. He dresses elegantly, gestures wildly, and wears minstrel make-up of various colors throughout the performance, conducting himself like the ringmaster of some surreal circus. The stage, it seems, is Bronson’s fantasy, where he’s free to put his emotional world into order. When he’s first imprisoned, and finally alone, Peterson begins to cry; Bronson, on stage and in whiteface, by contrast, reveals that they are crocodile...