Word: unreality
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...president stepped into office this week, beginning a year-long term at one of the world’s most prestigious legal periodicals. Robert W. Allen, currently in his second year at Harvard Law School, was elected president Saturday. “It was an amazing feeling, sort of unreal at the time. I really didn’t expect the results and was really surprised when I found out,” said Allen, who won last year’s Sears Prize for having the highest grades in his class. After the election’s results were...
...they were somewhere else, the big dinner, the disorganized cleanup afterward and the demolished, sad-looking house we are left with. Yet despite it all, we never fail to say to ourselves, "We did it." When we watch the movie every year, we are not laughing at Griswold's unreal expectations or foibles - we are laughing at ourselves. Craig J. Miller, DUNCANSVILLE...
...Glenn Gould’s performances and interviews on youtube.com. He sways around in circles, conducts an imaginary orchestra with his free hand, and brings much clarity to Bach’s incredibly complex music. His concentration is unreal...
...suspended in the painless world of continuity editing—nothing dare disturb us from our slumber. How can the Hollywood orthodoxy of eyeline matches and the hackneyed methods of portraying space, continuous diagetic sound, and re-establishing shots (in short, everything that makes a movie feel slick and unreal) ever shake an adult audience as deeply as the subject matter calls for? When Washington’s character boldly writes the word “Revolution” on the chalk board the first day of class, the theater screen feels especially opaque. Vladimir Mayakovsky once asserted that there...
...Twilight Zone episode like "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street." In that episode, these aliens did an experiment to see what fear did to human beings. [In The Mist], there really are monsters and they show up on Main Street in this little town. Granted, the situation is unreal, but an audience can say, "Here's a good, harmless place where I can actually test drive what I would do in a disaster." Particularly if the disaster was just totally inexplicable. But in the real world, if disaster strikes us, it seems to me that it's always inexplicable...