Word: unreality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Boloco” (okay we know this is real, but the phallic wrapped burrito is unreal...
There are many surreal elements in Chronic City: a mysterious fog, snow in the summer, a giant tiger. Is there something about Manhattan that makes it an unreal place in your mind? It's both real and unreal. The pressure of money and ambition and the forces of aspiration and yearning that make up that island also make it into kind of a virtual reality. There's something about Manhattan that's half a concept. People are living inside this concept as much as inside the real territory. But it is also real, and I wanted to capture the texture...
...game against Princeton was ridiculous,” Hagner said. “The game was delayed because of lightning, and halfway through, there was a torrential downpour. We had to leave the field, but in the locker room the excitement and energy to go out and play was unreal. It speaks to the character of this team and how we just love playing the game and playing with each other.” Harvard eventually won the game, 2-1. “The team in the locker room was kind of insane,” Mann said...
...wackier, more challenges confront the Black Kids. They battle skull-headed demons with force fields. Their two-pronged swords of light flash against the darkness. They even manage to find a glowing volume of spells flat in the middle of the desert. Theirs is a universe where the unreal is realized. The band’s name is even seen in lights not once, not twice, but four times. In short, they “don’t care what you’ve been taught.” In this hip trip, you can live whatever Technicolor dream...
...eyed Disney counterparts (it revolves around shocking wartime occurrences) but Lind’s gift for eccentric descriptions of characters and events transforms the more gruesome and explicit scenes into something strangely pallatable. Lind’s descriptions endow the starved, inhuman, and ruthless characters of the war with unreal qualities that make the whole narrative easier to digest. Ironically, this seemingly simplistic, almost whimsical lens allows Lind to humanize the effect of the war on people. For instance, Bachmann meets a deserter named Schnotz, who has become so much like a woodland creature as a result of his time...