"Mahagonny" takes place in modern times, in a twisted half-American, half-imaginary pleasure city; "Lucretia" is set in a stylized version of ancient Rome.
3 stars 11 Inland Empire dir David Lynch What we said: "The great eroto-surrealist David Lynch has gone truffling for another imaginary orifice of pleasure, with results that are fascinating, sometimes very unwholesome and always enjoyable". 4 stars 12 Half Nelson dir Ryan Fleck What we said: "Fleck has shown a measure of brilliance at filming [a] small, contained world".
And we go to the imaginary New York for the pleasure of the self-made: to see two children actually hide and live in a museum; to see an alligator, or a mouse, absorbed uncontroversially into a normal life.
In a different atmosphere, a little further up the street, Paul Creane performed an acoustic guitar show in the very crowded Adams, bringing back to life the pleasure and the whole imaginary linked to story-telling.
The people in Powell's book, whether "real" or "imaginary," know just how they sound and take pleasure in their rhetorical riffs.
VIXAL and the parallel world the computer program creates by interacting with other machines is worth reading about — but not for the usual pulp fiction pleasure of entering a vividly rendered imaginary world.
One of the strange things about imaginary food is that it allows us to take pleasure in reading about things that we would never want to eat in real life.
Despite wars, religious and regional conflicts, class tension and concerns about immigrant workers, Dutch artists were creating a comforting vision of a nation unified by people, landscape, everyday pleasures and the glories of a sometimes imaginary past.
Cockaigne, also spelled Cockayne, imaginary land of extreme luxury and ease where physical comforts and pleasures are always immediately at hand.
Griffiths's constructions get at the pleasure of science fiction's ability to create convincing and detailed imaginary landscapes.
Yet while it's a pleasure to watch Ms. Kurtz and Ms. Jones butt charismatic heads, "Imaginary Friends" isn't a show that leaves you gasping at its daring or chuckling over its cleverness.
