Word: unreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about a half-hour too much of a good thing-and few things pall like a dream that cannot be shaken off. Cocteau's moody retort to this criticism is that there's just no dream to shake off: "It's a realistic film in an unreal world...
...ambassadors and politically influential ballerinas making history behind champagne and potted palms. Those were the days when agreement between nations was possible. Now that diplomacy has become a matter of political philosophies which by definition cannot agree with each other, both the conferences and the parties have assumed the unreal air of a costume play in modern dress...
...Unreal World. One of the things that impressed the doctor-authors in their wartime study of thousands of deaf G.I.s was that the hazards of deafness are largely mental. Their book vividly pictures how it feels to be deaf...
...first big success-and his last haircut-came in 1925 when he danced a dramatic part in the ballet Don Morte, based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe. Says Kreutzberg: "I wanted to look very dreary. I tried a mask, then a cap, but that made me look unreal. It was summertime, so I shaved my head. The ballet girls said my make-up looked wonderful, then touched my head and shrieked." His next role was that of a bald Chinese. He has kept his head shaved ever since; when his dances require it, he wears masks or wigs...
...comparison between the bad rich and the good poor is far too familiar and too pat. The characters she means to portray sympathetically emerge as sentimentally unreal. But her nightclubbing set is alive with sharp-nailed women and men whose roving eyes seek trouble and ensue...