It is, if you will, a place that is both imaginary and concrete, bringing together the writer's need to soar beyond reality with her down-to-earth upbringing.
Good pantomimes should soar above reality.
Green rhetoric in Britain has traditionally soared far above reality.
Ms. Bunim, Mr. Murray and other producers upended the television order as reality shows soared in popularity, eventually wresting chunks of broadcast and cable schedules away from traditional scripted series.
Earlier this year, singer Jazmine Sullivan experienced the joys of chart-topping success as her latest album,"Reality Show" soared to the number one spot on Billboard's R&B charts.
Dubai is not the first place where soaring ambitions outpaced reality.
But behind the headlines about soaring costs, the reality is more complex and wildly uneven, because a growing number of students receive financial aid, and only relatively high-income families pay those fast-rising sticker prices.
Still, Mr. Braun and Ms. Lyne experienced some success in the fall; but the network has fallen back since January with its competitors, especially Fox and NBC, which are soaring behind hit reality shows like "American Idol" and "The Apprentice".
As the audience used Intel Ultrabooks and tablets to simultaneously control flying jellyfish creatures that swam alongside the eponymous augmented reality behemoth, Leviathan soared off the screen and into the crowd, yielding an as-of-yet unparalleled mixture of film and gaming experience.
But they also reflected new economic realities: childcare costs had soared, and many parents, particularly women, could not afford to work.
