Adolescents may have their attitudes toward sex and relationships shaped by the unrealities of pornography.
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It is adaptable but comfortable, a respite from the urban jungle and a place to savor those face-to-face encounters that have largely been supplanted by the virtual unrealities of modern life.
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Virtual Unrealities is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Alfred Bester with an introduction by Robert Silverberg.
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"The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" is a science fiction short story by American writer Alfred Bester. It was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in October 1958. It has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and German, and has been reprinted nine times, most recently in Virtual Unrealities (1997).Bester, Alfred.
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"Time Is the Traitor" is a science fiction short story by American writer Alfred Bester, originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in September, 1953. It is included in the Bester collections The Dark Side of the Earth (1964), Star Light, Star Bright (1976) and Virtual Unrealities (1997) and has been extensively anthologized.
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Tenth song "Sonnets/Unrealities XI" was based on the poem "It May Not Always Be So; And I Say" by E. E. Cummings. Lyrically, she bids a farewell to a lover. It features only Björk's singing, with slight inflections from the Icelandic Choir. The following track "Ancestors" has no lyrics, featuring only Björk and Tagaq's voices.
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Vedanta conveys the aparoksha Absolute in a paroksha way which is a valid way because while referring to certain facts about Brahman paroksha does not refer to unrealities. In Srimad-Bhagavatam (XI.xxi.35) it refers to the indirect (proksha) statements of the rishis. The rishis of the Vedas are found to speak variously about Brahman in an indirect manner (proksha-vada) e.g.
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Shubik was appointed story editor and Leonard White, who had produced the first two seasons of The Avengers, was assigned to produce. Leonard found Out of This World a welcome antidote to The Avengers, which had proved a difficult production; he recalled, "It was a great pleasure to make, getting away from today and exploring the unrealities (or so we thought) of tomorrow. An opportunity for the suspension of disbelief even in the here and now ambiance of television".White, Armchair Theatre: The Lost Years, p. 72.
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However, UK-based music retailer CD Wow was found to be for a brief period selling un-cut copies of the box set, before its official release. These copies, which had allegedly been destroyed, were manufactured in Malaysia - and as such contained more tracks than the other released (cut) editions. Voltaïc eventually enjoyed its full official release on 23 June 2009. A preview of the DVD was released on YouTube on June 16, 2009, while footage from "Declare Independence" from Paris and "Sonnets/Unrealities XI" from Reykjavík were premiered by Pitchfork and Rolling Stone, respectively.
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"Mohammed" was shortlisted for the 1959 Hugo Award for Best Short Story,1959 Hugo Awards at TheHugoAwards.org (retrieved February 7, 2011) and The New York Review of Science Fiction describes it as a "final development" to the theme of time travel."Virtual Unrealities by Alfred Bester, reviewed by Arthur D. Hlavaty", from the New York Review of Science Fiction, archived at maroney.org, retrieved February 7, 2011 Connie Willis described it as "very funny" and one of her favorite time-travel stories (while misattributing it to Harry Harrison),Connie Willis talks BLACKOUT (part 6), by Ali Kokmen, SUVUDU.
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The Hamrahlid Choir opened the evening with a 20-minute set of traditional Icelandic songs and choral arrangements of Björk's "Sonnets/Unrealities XI" and "Cosmogony". Björk emerged from "swirly helixes of color" to perform "The Gate", which segues into "Utopia" and "Arisen My Senses". The singer goes inside the reverb chamber to perform the a cappella track "Show Me Forgiveness" and "Venus as a Boy", which she hadn't performed since 2006 and 2011 respectively. Afterwards, Björk sings the Utopia album track "Claimstaker" and the second single from Post, "Isobel", which was re- imagined by Arca and features "percussive intervention".
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Hallock, 309 U.S. 106, 119–120 (1940), Frankfurter, J. "Nor does want of specific Congressional repudiations of the St. Louis Trust cases serve as an implied instruction by Congress to us not to reconsider, in the light of new experience, whether those decisions in conjunction with the Klein case, make for dissonance of doctrine. It would require very persuasive circumstances enveloping Congressional silence to debar this Court from reexamining its own doctrines. To explain the cause of nonaction by Congress when Congress itself sheds no light is to venture into speculative unrealities." Eskridge notes that there are many reasons besides express lack of intent that would forestall Congressional action to remedy a flawed Court decision.
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"The Pi Man" was a finalist for the 1960 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.1960 Hugo Awards, at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved May 6, 2018 Kirkus Reviews considered it to be a "chilling masterpiece",VIRTUAL UNREALITIES: THE SHORT FICTION OF ALFRED BESTER, reviewed at Kirkus Reviews; published November 14, 1997; retrieved May 6, 2018 and John Hertz has lauded it as "coruscating, gripping, (and) strange".Hertz: Time for Tea, by John Hertz, at File 770; published December 20, 2013; retrieved May 6, 2018 The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction has posited that Marko's abilities were the basis for the similar abilities of the protagonist in Bester's 1981 novel The Deceivers,BESTER, ALFRED, by Peter Nicholls; at the Science Fiction Encyclopedia (edited by John Clute, David Langford, Peter Nicholls, and Graham Sleight.
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