Word: unreal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...volume of his purported "memoirs" was published recently in the U.S., all decked out with notes and glossary, no fewer than ten out of 42 reviewers-one of them a professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University -have been gulled into taking Flashman seriously as a real historical character. Being wholly unreal, as well as wholly lacking in character, the archcad would have been delighted...
...fellaheen, who make up more than half of Egypt's population, the threat of Israel is as remote and unreal as any hope of improvement in their ancient way of life or freedom from their backbreaking, dawn-to-dark work on the land. The war is brought home daily to Cairenes in the shabbiness of their once-exciting city, in the tomblike echoes of the airport terminal, in the empty streets of the Moussky shopping district, where donkeys now outnumber tourists?and in the constant shortages. For four years the capital's citizens have endured three consecutive meatless days...
...other demands are equally distorted or unreal. The reference to Medical School building plans is not only inaccurate but simply untrue. The reference to "construction" of the Kennedy School of Government names a site where there is not the faintest intention of erecting any University facility. The Kennedy School, if it is accompanied at all in the new John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library complex, will find a place only in a combined international-public administration section hundreds of yards from the apartments in question. Both the sloppiness of the demands and the fact that they were in many cases addressed...
INVITATION TO A BEHEADING, as adapted by Russell McGrath from the Vladimir Nabokov novel, is not much of a play-the characters are unreal, the tension is nonexistent, and the humor is heavy. However, Joseph Papp's Public Theater production is an elegant example of inventive staging, costuming and ensemble playing that all but makes up for the script...
...understand. I could not accept the supernatural the same as anything else. It was inconceivable to me that one could cross the line between the real and the unreal, and dwell there. I could not see that one could merge his soul with a haunted quarry--to make a movie...