In this and a few other things Brown is surreally wrong.
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Today I get there 50 minutes before closing, and it feels surreally empty.
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The props (edible teacups, mushroom tuffets) and costumes were surreally proportioned and druggie.
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This throws off the community's cosmic balance, with disastrous and surreally C.G.I.-enhanced results.
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Can't wait to join the surreally beautiful and inspiring women that are the #vsfs2016 lineup.
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Surreally, it is possibly the country's top tourist attraction with 1.2 million visitors a year.
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At times, it becomes almost surreally funny—no, really, this entire film is just going
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The vision is surreally real, at once literal and symbolic, and the meanings productively multiply.
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That's tricky for Waymo because many elements of its technology are still secret—sometimes surreally so.
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No wonder more people are getting behind Elizabeth Warren, including, somewhat surreally, Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
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"Why do we all not feel well?" she asked surreally at her inaugural wellness summit last year.
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Now, amazingly, surreally, as is becoming more clear with a steady drip of reporting, we're seeing it happen.
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First was Katy Perry, surreally dropping n-bombs and Chicago drill shoutouts like an alternate-universe Miley Cyrus.
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Works that qualify as instantly recognizable "classics" to a Western viewer feel surreally exotic in this multiculturalist environment.
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But no matter how luxurious, how expensive, and how surreally grown-up the prices are, the runway show isjustsocuteyouguysseriously.
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The music had become surreally and subtly martial (the soundtrack was designed by Maxim Waratt, and Grischa Lichtenberger provided original music).
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And it's honestly transformative — fast-paced games feel almost surreally responsive to the point where it's very hard to go back.
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A lead in the polls became a lead in the delegate count and then, surreally, the nomination of the Republican Party.
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In the meantime, the city has not repainted the stripes white, but has begun talking, surreally, about implementing 3-D technology.
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In a lush copse of surreally colored plants, 10 men (contra the title) stand around a mélange of dislocated household goods.
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The app offered the ability to create surreally accurate portraits of people as they would look many years in the future.
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And yet climate policy is moving forward in the country in what appears, to this American's eyes, an almost surreally sensible fashion.
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Others, more surreally, read "oops, your important files are encrypted" and demanded a payment of $300 worth of bitcoin to decrypt them.
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She appears in Mr. LaChapelle's surreally kaleidoscopic image with arms outstretched, gazing skyward and floating against a backdrop of primordial looking greenery.
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" The actress who, along with Penn, became surreally entangled in the hunt for El Chapo, says she feels "protected for the first time.
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Four Tet's production sets her voice amid plinking, pinging loops and subtle beats, a surreally synthetic backdrop that somehow feels homey and organic.
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I realized that Death Valley is not so much a desert as a surreally varied mountain region with a desert at its heart.
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Surreally, we stand—a blessed trio, in front of the crucifix—Father Clive, me, and my pussy, which he grasps firmly in both hands.
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Truffaut draws out the book's most surreally boring moments, devoting an entire scene to a hypnotic faux-interactive soap opera about assigning guest bedrooms.
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He heard Smetana's surging "Má Vlast" played to exuberant Velvet Revolutionaries in Czechoslovakia, and, surreally, was sheltered from a police crackdown along with Shirley Temple.
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Grimes finds herself by losing herself: in concepts and characters and costumes, in surreally larger-than-life music, in overarching ideas and omens of apocalypse.
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But he found his passion in using his dramatic baritone to riff surreally on colors, time, spiders, bullfighting, outer space and dozens of other subjects.
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Surreally, you felt that she might have been sketched, in looping whorls of ink, into existence by our host, who had drawn her so many times.
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Why is Life Is Strange surreally haunting while A Way Out feels, at its very best, like a network TV pilot that never finished post-production?
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He's currently in post-production on an adaptation of Steve Erickson's surreally brilliant Zeroville as well as a biographical film about the life of Charles Bukowski.
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Less graphic but no less powerful are shots of surreally large mounds of the personal effects taken away from arriving prisoners — mountains of eyeglasses, suitcases, children's toys.
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From its nearly orgiastic societal frenzy over Satanic Panic, right down to its decadent, zany teen slasher movies, no decade was more surreally performative about its fears.
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In Mexico — the birthplace of the surreally magical tale spun into a theatrical web by the artist — the reception to Magid's work has been less laudatory than abroad.
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Greens are less frequent; zealously urbane, Stettheimer wasn't much for nature, except, surreally, for the glories of the outsized cut flowers that barge in on her indoor scenes.
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My partner and I stood holding a pair of shoes at the shoe wall while a cluster of four salesclerks stood around and, surreally, kept greeting each other.
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Starting with a sketched composition, she juxtaposed photographs of women (enlisting her daughter and friends as models) with stock images of objects and scenery, surreally shrunken or enlarged.
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Julie Doucet's 1990's comic series Dirty Plotte was wildly imaginative and raucous, pulled no punches, and teetered constantly and surreally on the delicious edge between gross and fascinating.
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I loved that surface, I played well, but during the tournament it was surreally hot, and I played all of my matches in five sets – both singles and doubles.
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There were even wooden cabinets someone had dragged from home and stocked neatly with first aid supplies and leftist literature, adding to the surreally homey feel of the festivities.
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And the lines between the personal and the technological are blurred in often inspired ways, as when the Son answers a series of surreally intimate password questions from a bot.
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And while the Castro regime defends its stumbling economic reforms, opportunities for its citizens are limited to about 200 sanctioned nonstate jobs, which include, somewhat surreally, the profession of clowning.
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Ben Brantley wrote that Harris ("Is God Is") "has a gift for pushing the familiar to surreally logical extremes" and that her piece is "truly sui generis, truly remarkable."themovementtheatrecompany.org
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Though the surprise snow on the survival date was surreally romantic, I think the women and I were happy to spend a week somewhere known for picturesque beaches and beautiful weather.
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Another drawing shows Valentina taking photos of a criminal gang in action, then surreally being identified as the villain herself by the police, chased by the officers for wearing a miniskirt.
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The extra money was nice, but she was particularly taken by the way libraries embodied history in tangible objects, towers of paper, ink and buckram that rose almost surreally into the air.
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I had a chance to talk to Shah at the Nairobi National Park, a wildlife park just next to the city with the skyline surreally visible at the horizon of the savannah.
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In some cases, she has cut fabric away at the shoulders, while other pieces feature a bib front, an off-center opening or a series of cuffs stacked surreally up the sleeve.
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It was a lush, surreally Edenic performance piece, in which dancers and models prowled, whirled, and ran, laughing, across a grassy set strewn with fountains, plants growing under fluorescent lights, and geodesic domes.
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Right before the rose ceremony this week he kicked Sarah several times to show how much he likes her, then asked her to pull a bee stinger out of his surreally chiseled chin.
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But beyond overall allegations of a hostile environment that routinely undervalued female employees, some specific behaviors described in the lawsuit border on parody, depicting a culture almost surreally oblivious to its own gender issues.
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In Las Vegas in 2016, save for a tall, tasteless, gold-tinted building looming surreally into the sky with the opposing candidate's name blazoned across the top, the opposition had no physical presence at all.
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As designed by the great Miriam Buether, the set for "Machinal" gradually and surreally shifts from the early 1920s to the present, suggesting that even as times change, a woman's lot remains much the same.
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An unreturnable serve in tennis; a sale with deep markdowns; a real location where ships and planes have surreally vanished without a trace, but which has managed to garner over 1,400 Google reviews (mostly negative).
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It was nature made perverse, or maybe the reverse, with a Freudian element tastefully obscured—like a vulva doesn't have the same je ne sais quoi—but looking at it again I see, simply or surreally, a tulip.
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Doucet is best known for her 1990's comic series Dirty Plotte ("plotte" is French for "cunt"), which was wildly imaginative and raucous, pulled no punches, and teetered constantly and surreally on the delicious edge between gross and fascinating.
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Yet these economists, despite what often seem like pathetic attempts to curry favor with politicians, are routinely passed over for key positions, which go to almost surreally unqualified figures like Moore or Larry Kudlow, the Trump administration's chief economist.
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Directed by Rupert Sanders, "Ghost in the Shell" uses all sorts of surreally grotesque imagery—both computer-generated and practical—and an ominous electronic score to make the rain-lashed Los Angeles of "Blade Runner" look like Disneyland on a summer's day.
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Downtime in the courthouse was like a surreally awkward cocktail party, with enforced mingling among the victim's family, the wife who cheated on him, and the man accused of murdering him, while the occasional chained convict came clanking through like Marley's ghost.
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It was like a three-ring circus, with the surreally costumed Mr. Costanzo, backed by the Knights (conducted by Eric Jacobson) singing on a central platform; four dynamic dancers off to one side; and a screen showing music videos off to the other.
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An ugly, vicious intolerance spread on social media; the collapse of norms once considered sacred; a crass narrow-mindedness surreally celebrated by some of this country's most powerful institutions—these are all elements in the gathering storm of a new, distinctly American fascism.
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In an email newsletter, the writer Rob Horning compared this to Time's infamous 1993 cover for its "New Face of America" immigration issue, which showed a surreally smooth, smiling face — a computer-generated projection of what future "deracialized" generations of America might look like.
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The cultural and political battle which has actually arisen is one against — bizarrely, surreally — 19th-century style ethno-nationalism; against people who want to forcibly deport millions from their homes, people who want to oppress minorities of all kinds, and, not least, outright white nationalists.
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VR Sports Challenge's solution is surprisingly avant-garde for a game full of almost surreally corny sports cliches: you grab the ball as a quarterback, throw it toward a team member, then instantly flip perspectives to become that player and attempt to catch it.
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One good sign that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star Rachel Bloom isn't actually crazy: she's leaving the house without the Golden Globe award she won last month – though she admits the win was the cherry on top of a surreally successful stage in her career.
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Set mainly on the Upper East Side of Manhattan — and, somewhat surreally, also in heaven, where a little girl named Wanda June finds herself after being hit by an ice cream truck — it ran for not quite three months on Broadway in 1970 and '71.
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There's something almost surreally casual about the site's treatment of height—something at least most adults see as non-negotiable—as an area of self improvement akin to weight loss, or a life obstacle that can be overcome with the right combination of hustle and vitamins.
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Ms. Gasteyer's longest monologue was a surreally embellished account of driving in the winter with her musical director from Chicago to Mason City, Iowa, after the tiny airline that was to transport them canceled the flight, and how they then got stuck in a ditch amid snowdrifts.
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What happened Tuesday is that the United States men's team was knocked out of World Cup qualifying thanks to an almost surreally meek performance against Trinidad and Tobago, previously the worst team in the Concacaf conference for teams from North and Central America and the Caribbean.
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And even though I am an entrepreneur who has started and sold companies for the last 20 years and who is known as an extreme capitalist in my professional life, surreally I get accused of being a "socialist" because I can live with certain progressive economic policies.
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Sculpture artist Jaume Plensa questions perception with his disorienting public art pieces, like the series of Portraits in Chicago's Millennium Park—larger versions of this sculpture made of burnt wood showing a girls head that at a face-on glance looks normal, but is surreally stretched from the side.
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The works in the show range from a 2450 ink self-portrait of a ponderous 280-year-old Currin, to his 219 oil "Newspaper Couple," in which an elderly man and woman smile at each other serenely despite a jumble of bric-a-brac balanced surreally on their heads.
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The works in the show range from a 2450 ink self-portrait of a ponderous 280-year-old Currin, to his 219 oil "Newspaper Couple," in which an elderly man and woman smile at each other serenely despite a jumble of bric-a-brac balanced surreally on their heads.
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It was a fitting image for a devoted daughter who exists as an almost surreally detached counterpoint to her father's bellicosity, and yet may be his most important ally, particularly if he finds himself facing a Democratic opponent who aspires to be the first female president of the United States.
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Scroll too quickly, or miss the photograph with a human-scale hand surreally poking into the scene, and a viewer might confuse the image for a real-life one, the type of image that leaves you feeling equally amazed by and envious of the enormous kitchen island with a soapstone countertop.
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In the show, though, this sense of boyish adventure is nicely undercut by the German sculptor Isa Genzken, one of whose "Wind" sculptures from 2009 resembles an American flag featuring an image of astronauts, but is made out of torn scraps of fabric and decorated, surreally, with strips of bacon.
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Narrated in the play by Sebastian's cousin, Catharine Holly, and surreally staged in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's film adaptation, the scene depicts a gang of "frightfully thin and dark naked children that looked like a pack of plucked birds" pursuing the effete Sebastian through the Spanish beach town of Cabeza de Lobo.
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Peter H. Raven, a lifelong prober and defender of biological diversity and president emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden, just distributed a note placing this year's surreally unpredictable presidential race (watch in virtual "surreality" here) in the broader context of consequential environmental and social trends that perpetually seem to hide in plain sight.
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A pop-up gallery space — situated, somewhat surreally, next to a stall selling underwear in the middle of the town market — is exhibiting graphic scores and videos of the artist performing as an avant-garde DJ in New York in the early '80s, scratching or smashing records and engaging in punky free improv sessions.
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When Salonen's music blew on some slowly burning ember of a foregoing phrase, fomenting smoke for a new tutti passage, the video often responded with an imaginative visual point of comparison: exploding into surreally Fauvist color schemes, or using a live feed of the orchestra as the basis for a swirl of line-drawing patterns.
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Hilary Koyfman, formerly of CDR Interiors, the design firm who did the décor for the women's social club the Wing, designed the space, and I noticed later that day that the wallpaper in the beauty area in back is the same as in the Wing SoHo's beauty room and, surreally, that it's also on the walls at the Real Real store on Wooster Street.
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Artist Sebastian Masuda, who considers Takashi Murakami his Senpai, for instance, likes to meld a cute aesthetic with surreally nightmarish elements in his installations; artist and graphic designer Mori Chack created the character Gloomy Bear, a pink bear who is not too different from Hello Kitty, even though he likes to routinely maul his human companion, a boy named Pity, and for this reason has a perpetually blood-smeared face.
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I learned to appreciate the way that 360 degrees of stacked-up traffic transformed sight lines, collapsing space and perspective, shattering Dhaka's scenery into Cubist shards: splashes of color; a flash of a painted sign on a wall; a glimpse of a driver's beard in his truck's rearview mirror; a pile of corrugated metal siding, surreally floating a dozen feet in the air, the payload of an unseen cargo tricycle.
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Seen anew, much of its imagery is surreally beautiful: the vast plated underside of an armored starship sliding on and on forever overhead; the dreamlike tableau, seen through a scrim of smoke and framed by concentric portals, of a girl shrouded in white furtively genuflecting to a robot; a golden android waving for help in a desert by the skeleton of a dinosaur; a convoy of space fighters opening their split wings in sequence, like poison flowers blossoming.
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Chief among them are the condominium buildings under construction at 22013 Leonard Street in TriBeCa, a Herzog & de Meuron creation that will feature a mirror-polished stainless steel Anish Kapoor sculpture nestled surreally at a corner of its base, this British artist's first permanent public piece here; and 2505 Elizabeth Street in NoLIta, the first residential building in New York by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando, into which he will incorporate an art environment of his own, a gossamer light-and-fog space in the entryway, visible from the sidewalk.
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Though Carrère speaks ruefully of most of them — the autobiographical first novel that drew heavily if surreally on his French military-service experience in Indonesia where he taught old Chinese ladies to speak French and took every drug he could find; the second, which, set around the famous night in the summer of 280 when Mary Shelley came up with the Frankenstein story, he finds as overdone as the first; and the fourth, which he just says he doesn't like at all — two retain his affection: "The Mustache" (1986) and "Class Trip" (1995).
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Nor does it explain the complete tone shift of spinoffs like the now-canceled Bachelor Pad and the more recent Bachelor in Paradise, where, through the power of editing, former contestants from both The Bachelor and The Bachelorette are portrayed as either conniving, mercenary villains or so naive that they cartoonishly appeal to raccoons and crabs for relationship advice: The franchise's editors clearly have a wry sense of humor, and as of late, they've been taking more advantage of the hundreds of hours of raw footage at their disposal, using B-roll to spackle a pastiche of audio clips and hard cuts into a narrative that frequently drifts into the surreally absurd.
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Alicia Potter, also at the Boston Herald, described the film as "surreally funny".
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A little over a week before the First Test, journalist Robert Houwing observed that many of his countrymen had "been ripping the proverbial fox to shreds: almost surreally, Kallis is the hound labouring at the rear of the pack. He shows just 519 runs from 13 Tests and 20 innings this year, at 28.83."Houwing 2008.
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Tram 7037 is in San Francisco operating on the F-Line, surreally repainted in the blue-and-white livery of Zürich. Tram 1504 is at the Trolley Museum of New York and 1511 is at Old Pueblo Trolley. A 4-axle PCC is also awaiting restoration at the Ontario St shed of Vancouver's Downtown Historic Railway.
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The film lavishly deploys surreally symbolic images: a giant four-poster bed in a small room, colour continuities between tractors, large metal drums in the street and the haldi (saffron) which the couple put on the walls to keep pests away, the yawning vehicles in the garage and the destructive imagery of the video games. Mane is Kasaravalli's first explicitly urban film.
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Currently available on Hulu. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 80% based on 65 reviews, with an average rating of 6.85/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Greener Grass is far from the first comedy to skewer suburbia -- but it might be among the most bizarre and surreally distinctive." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 69 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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As of October 2020, review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 68% of 129 critic reviews were positive for the film, with average rating of 6.28/10. The website's consensus reads, "Surreally goofy and entertaining for both children and their parents." As of October 2020, Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 66 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.
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The dominant feature of the principal parterre is the "Portico dos Cavalinhos", a garden temple flanked by two allegorical equestrian statues depicting Fames, and two sphinxes (see final illustration) surreally dressed in 18th-century costume, combining the formal and the fantastic.Fielding, p. 277. This surreal theme continues elsewhere in the gardens where such motifs as the rape of the Sabines and the death of Abel alternate with statuary of donkeys dressed in human clothing. Deeper in the gardens is a grotto complete with a cascade.
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During both residencies she was able to produce bodies of work that 'built upon her past style and explored new challenges'. Curator Felicity Milburn has identified several stages to Pick's artistic development: > Pick's early work employed imagery sourced from significant moments in Art > History, making particular use of the Gothic emblems of the Medieval period. > By 1994, however, she had developed her own distinctive and captivatingly > personal iconography. Works from this period have been described as > 'dreamscapes' in which symbolic images from Pick's memory (beds, dresses, > pincushions, colanders) float surreally across rich surfaces.
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He complicated the work by overlaying symbols, shapes or lines (often in stark white) on the varnished surface or by inexplicably leaving key areas unvarnished—and thus surreally illuminated—creating what critic Donald Kuspit called an "ominous, unresolved, uncanny contrast." In the early 1990s, Klamen introduced similarly haunting, austere images of architectural interiors—Victorian lobbies, halls and staircases in museums and universities,Klamen, David. "Interiors". Retrieved August 31, 2018. often featuring solitary, illuminated precious objects—with works such as in Untitled (1993, see left) that some critics felt were his most powerful to date.
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During this time, Bruce began to act and do commercials. One of his biggest acting roles was as the second lead on the television revival of 1957's Maverick, called Bret Maverick. Starring James Garner as a legendary western gambler, the series ran on NBC-TV during the 1981-82 season but was unexpectedly cancelled despite respectable ratings. Bruce played the irascibly surly town lawman who found himself reluctantly co- owning a saloon with Maverick, with whom he seemed to maintain a surreally adversarial relationship more or less throughout the entire season.
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Smith's arrangement was recorded in 1970 when he worked with Pharoah Sanders, who had recorded and worked closely with Coltrane. After the slow introductory statement (the part which resembles Smith's arrangement), most of the piece consists of soloing over two chords accompanied by a loping bass and Latin percussion. Of Larry Young's organ contribution here, Paul Stump, in Go Ahead John, wrote: "with its overlapping flurries of triplets, [it] is a moment of pure genius, worthy of mention in its own right, a musical equivalent of a swarm of surreally coloured butterflies." The track closes with a return to the slow introductory statement.
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Examples of exotic plants that have been cultivated include Campsis radicans (trumpet vine), Dracunculus vulgaris (dragon lily), Gunnera manicata (Brazilian giant-rhubarb), Philadelphus microphyllus (littleleaf mock-orange), and Zantedeschia aethiopica (arum lily). Trees include a Wollemi pine (a species rediscovered in Australia in 1994) and quince (whose fruit is given to college fellows and friends). The greenhouse was designed by Rick Mather, the creator of the college's auditorium. Almost frameless, it presents itself as a display cabinet in which a variety of horticultural and other informal exhibits are watched over by a surreally attired mannequin named Madame Lulu.
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She noted that by the end, the writing became more melancholic. An article in New York felt that Ciccone would profit from the book's sales, by including the same content that was already known about the singer. Nicholas Fonseca from Entertainment Weekly gave the book a rating of C+, and felt that although the book had some "surreally humorous life-in-a- bubble moments", it was counterbalanced by the authors' attempt to "psychoanalyze" Madonna, "a ludicrous exercise given that she is already the most overexposed woman of her generation". Molly Friedman believed that Life with My Sister Madonna only helped to enhance Madonna's reputation as a "bad girl", which was missing from the singer's repertoire for a long time.
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After knocking Danger unconscious, Catherwood and Nancy murder Rococo, who is blackmailing them. They attempt to frame Danger for their crime, but Danger forces Catherwood to reveal the truth, and solves his problem by some means we will never know; the show is interrupted by the news bulletin of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Bergman) announcing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.The liner notes actually say the program aired on December 6, 1941, even though the Pearl Harbor attack occurred on December 7. Danger's origin is surreally explained on the album's first side title track, where a stream of consciousness flip of the TV dial includes a brief snippet of a show or movie which depicts three deranged hoodlums discussing how much they "hate cops".
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Two college students, Keith and AJ, want to hire a stripper to buy their way into a campus fraternity. They borrow a Cadillac from lonely rich student Duncan, who insists on coming with them to scope out strip clubs in a nearby city. The three boys find themselves at a club in a shady part of town, and after being impressed by a surreally artistic stripper, Katrina, AJ visits her dressing room to try and convince her to come strip for their college party. Katrina seduces AJ, then pins him down - killing him with a fatal bite to the neck. Keith becomes concerned at his friend’s delay and gets help from a waitress named Amaretto, who keeps insisting (to his confusion) that she knows him.
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Ben Brantley of The New York Times deemed the production as "misdirected and miscast... reality never makes an appearance in this surreally blurred production." Later that year, Paulson appeared Off-Broadway in a production of Colder Than Here, opposite Lily Rabe (also her future co-star on American Horror Story). The production received an unfavorable review from Variety, with critic Dave Rooney writing: "Rabe speaks in an affected monotone while Sarah Paulson has the measured, upward-inflected delivery of a children's TV presenter... this mannered, melancholy play elicits a mainly impassive response, which is no small obstruction in a work dealing with loss." Also in 2005, Paulson had a small role in the Joss Whedon- directed science fiction film Serenity.
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Fred Basset himself seems to have been born during 1959 from comments in the earliest cartoons, and in true cartoon style, seems not to age. Fred's observations can be wry and a certain amount of surrealism is evident, with one early strip having his owners mention they thought the Fred Basset strip in the day's newspaper was "quite amusing" (cartoon 553 in book number 4). Later strips mention both Fred, his owners and passers-by being surreally aware of the newspaper Fred Basset strip and commenting as such, unaware that their own Fred is the character mentioned. Fred has a certain amount of snobbishness and appreciates the finer qualities of life, as shown clearly in the Alex Graham era strips, with attitudes of the time.
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At one point plastic surgery is conducted on him without his consent. He is forced at another point to pursue careers selling shoes at Zappos or working in a laundromat to impress a woman. His knowledge of film is seemingly deteriorating, as he constantly and surreally misquotes and misremembers many movies. Several other plotlines concern the St. Augustine Monster, a war fought between android clones of Donald Trump and a fictitious fast food restaurant called Slammy's, a murder attempt by Abbott and Costello on a rival comedy team Mudd and Molloy, which is depicted in Cutbirth's film, and several forms of time travel, including by a precognitive meteorologist, clones of other characters (including Trump and a more financially successful B), and a virus invented by a sapient ant living in the distant future.
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A mixture of references have been observed within "That in Aleppo Once..." including Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Nabokov's narrator as perceiving themselves to be like the woman in Anton Chekov's short story, "The Lady with the Dog" Shakespeare's Othello, and writer Alexander Pushkin's relationship with his wife Nathalia of whom Nabokov's narrator references as "Nalthalie" in certain situational likeness to his marriage with his young unnamed wife. Pushkin believed his wife to be in an affair with a Cassio-like man, Georges d' Anthes, by including theses references Nabokov provides a sense of connection between reality and imagination. Professor Brian Quinn of Kyushu University connects Russian Literary Tradition being evoked by Nabokov as a part of subverting art's highest recognitions against the harsh realities of poverty, death, and exile that surreally form an 'other' or as recognized, 'virtual reality' departure understood of twentieth century experience.
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In his 2016 novel The Allegations,The Allegations (Picador, 2016) a lecturer at a fictional English university faces disciplinary action and dismissal for "B&H;" (bullying and harassment). Dr Tom Pimm is accused of sighing during departmental meetings, "divisive social invitations" and "visual Insubordination (sic) towards senior management". Pimm attends a hearing during which he is told that "if someone felt you were being insensitive then, to all intents and purposes, you were". In the book's afterword, Lawson claims “It is the case that during a long, generally privileged and happy career in the media, I suffered one devastating experience of institutional group-think, baffling and contradictory management, false accusation and surreally sub-legal process; and have personal knowledge of the damage to reputation, employability and health that can result from such an ordeal.” Lawson supports Northampton Town FC and frequently goes to games, both at Sixfields Stadium and away.
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An armadillo puppet stood up on its hind legs to reveal a naked young woman on whose skin an image of the solar system was projected. There were multiple scenes involving a surreally distanced Oedipal coupling of two actors who recited a combination of Sophocles and invented texts. At one point, the Oedipus figure shot arrows across the full throw of the backstage area at a circle of light as the Jocasta character looked on. In 2000, Counts was invited to direct Gertrude Stein’s Listen to Me at the CalArts Center for New Performance in Valencia, California. The production featured three iterations of the same three characters: a man dressed alternately in a snowsuit and a schoolboy’s uniform; a woman also appearing in multiple incarnations including an opulent 18th century white wig topped by a silver model of a three-masted sailing ship; and an art museum guard.
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Kear began his career as a drummer with various bands in the late-1970s and early-1980s, including a stint with the Small Faces and the Amazing Bavarian Stompers with whom he performed on an edition of the children's television series Tiswas in 1981. In the late 1980s, he turned to solo stand-up comedy as the surreally manic 'Charlie Chuck' and, in 1990, he was talent-spotted by the comedian Malcolm Hardee who arranged for him to appear on Jools Holland's The Happening, a Sky TV series produced by Noel Gay Television. He later appeared on the Sky TV talent show Sky Star Search where he was spotted by disc jockey James Whale, who booked him on several editions of his late night series The James Whale Radio Show (a radio show that was simultaneously broadcast on television by Yorkshire Television on the ITV Network). In 1993-1995, he was a cast member of the BBC Two TV series The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer.
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Reproductions of Dürer's Hare have often been a permanent component of bourgeois living rooms in Germany. The image has been printed in textbooks; published in countless reproductions; embossed in copper, wood or stone; represented three-dimensionally in plastic or plaster; encased in plexiglas; painted on ostrich eggs; printed on plastic bags; surreally distorted in Hasengiraffe ("Haregiraffe") by Martin Missfeldt; reproduced as a joke by Fluxus artists; and cast in gold; or sold cheaply in galleries and at art fairs Since early 2000, Ottmar Hörl has created several works based on Dürer's Hare, including a giant pink version. Sigmar Polke has also engaged with the hare on paper or textiles, or as part of his installations, and even in rubber band form. Dieter Roth's Köttelkarnikel ("Turd Bunny") is a copy of Dürer's Hare made from rabbit droppings, and Klaus Staeck enclosed one in a little wooden box, with a cutout hole, so that it could look out and breathe.
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" Pauline Kael of The New Yorker saw in the protagonist's rehabilitation "an almost childishly transparent disguise for Peckinpah's own determination to show Hollywood that he's not dead yet ... Amazingly, Peckinpah does rehabilitate himself; his technique here is dazzling." Peckinpah's use of violence in the fim, Kael continued, "isn't gory and yet it's more daring than ever. He has never before made the violence itself so surreally, fluidly abstract; several sequences are edited with a magical speed—a new refinement." Tom Milne of The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote, "Craftily marrying the martial arts fad to the anti-CIA craze to produce a sort of Enter the Dragon meets Three Days of the Condor, the script is of course a mixture of opportunism and joke—as Peckinpah freely ackowledges with a deliriously absurd (yet splendid) final holocaust in which hordes of sword- carrying Japanese ambush, with highly predictable results, Americans armed to the teeth with machine-guns.
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