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phantasmagoria

fan taz muh gaw ree uh

  • n  a constantly changing medley of real or imagined images (as in a dream)

  • Devdas, a three-hour romantic phantasmagoria, got little indulgence from the international critics.
  • Wed to Count Boniface de Castellane in 1895, Anna Gould divorced him after an 11-year phantasmagoria of pink marble palaces and $150,000 parties during which the Parisian gay blade .
  • He is pursued through the phallic phantasmagoria of a sausage factory by a uniformed guard until a junk sculptor (Thomas Erhart) darts to his rescue.
Quotes

  • Marilyn Manson in FMQB
    In less than two weeks, I'm going to France to start production on my film, Phantasmagoria,Manson told MTV.com. "And maybe I'll convince Johnny to be in it - I'll extort him to be in it."
  • Abd al-Malik in Los Angeles Times
    I realized that my Islam of the ghetto was just a ghetto of Islam,Malik said. "There's a disconnect, a kind of phantasmagoria of Islam. The so-called reformers are trying to invent something in reaction to the West:. We have to put things...
  • Olga Neuwirth in Telegraph.co.uk
    I wanted to blur the boundaries, so that you don't know which sounds are real and which are coming from the speakers all round the auditorium,says Neuwirth. "It creates the effect of immersion in a kind of aural phantasmagoria."

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