There aren't too many real things around.
Beneath the sniping, so many real things lie in ruins: a corporate paradigm displaying no shred of responsibility, but eager for rescue by taxpayers; a military leadership's implicit promise to its recruits and their families; a public discourse commodified into channels that feed any given preacher's resentments to a self-selecting chorus.
It was a discomfort I chided myself for feeling -- there existed far too many real things to fret over, like work and school and a fast-encroaching tidal wave of loans.
Compared to the kind of hyper-sexuality on show in porn, it wouldn't be a surprise if, for many, the real thing feels like a disappointment – simply unable to match the dopamine hit available from the screen.
The book presented a situation where I could bring in so many other elements -- real things, fake things, photos, cartoons.
Though more sublet space is coming onto the market, the pace of leasing has slowed, rents have more or less flattened and the vacancy rate is rising, many real estate specialists say things could be a lot worse, especially when measured against the last downturn.
Mr. Teitelbaum operated differently, using his own samples and sounds, many of them referring to real things in the physical world: monkey cries, violins, drums, saxophone choirs, African singing.
The real things do make many appearances, however, as in Lorraine Walsh's "893 Ants," a plastic-encased collage of tiny specimens with strategic lenses magnifying a select few, and Joy Taylor's map of "Oceania," in which land masses are invaded by armies of Japanese beetles.
The airport is unspeakable, there are way too many real estate brokers, and the whole thing is probably going to be underwater in a century.
See it, just don't expect to get too many real answers about that crazy little thing we call love.
