The courses, which range from how to exercise like a cat to lessons in catnapping, are to be taught at an imaginary school that a Del Monte agency, Grand Central Marketing, has named the Meow Mix Acatemy, where they have installed as the mock dean Cat Cora, from the Food Network series "Iron Chef America".
The Breakfast Club takes place at a not-quite imaginary school in a not-quite imaginary town called "Shermer, Illinois" which, according to the film's opening voiceover, has the zip code 60062 – the same as that of Northbrook, the next town west of ours, once called Shermer, which happens to be where John Hughes grew up.
Yet the comic strip, painstakingly drawn, beautifully inked, suggests that he was also spending long hours in an imaginary high school of his own invention.
While Lucile Hadzihalilovic's 2004 film Innocence examined the society of little girls in an imaginary boarding school, Maile Chapman's first novel focuses on more aged and woebegotten gals, the lonely nurses and patients of a sanatorium in Finland, around 1920.
In Hudson Stage's newest production — Jeffrey Sweet's wise and revealing "Kunstler" — the title character, who cheerily delivers those punch lines to an imaginary law-school audience, is well aware of that cardinal rule of public speaking.
Joseph is one of several elementary students who have been disciplined for playing with pretend or imaginary guns at school in the weeks after the Newtown school shooting.
This dabbling in neurosis is second nature to writers, who are, in his opinion, "adult people torturing themselves to create school compositions, imaginary intrigues, useless imbroglios".
Centering on an imaginary northern Wisconsin private school and its baseball star-in-the-making Henry Skrimshander, Harbach sidesteps much of the familiar mythmaking that can go along with spinning the American pastime into literature and instead delivers a rich, warmly human story that resonates even if you have no idea what a 6-4-3 doublooksay likes like.
He added, "The songs are more guitar-driven, the outfits more adult, and the lyrics imply a string of bad boyfriends -- but it feels like imaginary drama taken from high school poetry, as if she's pretending to be older than she is".
Just as some Tories hark back to an imaginary golden age of grammar schools, she thinks the golden age of comprehensives was imaginary too.
The wife who never wanted to be beautiful is rescued from the depths of depression by a face-lift, but at the cost of losing the husband who loves her.This is a novel without illusions, but with much power and sense of time and place (for example: a high-school reunion, an imaginary conversation with Angela Davis, a Greenwich Village townhouse bomb factory, the devastation of Newark).
