Word: factualism
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...WHEN FACTUAL and fantastic collide, the explosions are dreams. Sleeping, we press desire against frustration, seeking resolution. When we fail--when dream replaces desire as the engine of imagination--we cross the fine line between dream and nightmare. The Adams-Quincy production of A Midsummer Night's Dream takes this distinction as a central tension. With slapstick played against the sinister, the result is at once amusing and alarming...
Vivaldi Cycle. That George Jack son may well have been harassed, that ultimately none of the charges against Davis or Jackson's Soledad co-defendants could be made to stick - these are valid points. Brothers renders them in valid only by exploiting their quasi-factual basis while changing all the names and parading the case as fiction...
That such factual and technically pure photography would be taken as "high art" 70 years ago was not to be expected. Hine did not care. As Alan Trachtenberg points out in his excellent catalogue essay, "Ellis Island represented the opening American act of one of the most remarkable dramas in all of history: the conversion of agricultural laborers, rural homemakers and traditional craftsmen into urban industrial workers." Hine, unlike other American photographers, perceived this and made it the lifelong theme of his work. The subject chose him. It presented Hine with a sense of historical duty, as witness...
...second Crimson article dealing with the dinner, although much less biased and far more factual, was still incomplete in its appraisal of the situation. Mather House had been contacted about the dinner several weeks in advance. The House Office had been asked permission to hold the dinner in the main dining hall. The House Council had been contacted and asked for its support. It seemed that the dinner, which would last less than an hour--from 5:15 to 6:00 p.m.--would be a successful event, approved and backed by the Mather House Office and Council...
Szasz said the terms "insane" and "mentally ill" are arbitrary labels that have no factual basis...