Word: realism
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GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ (1928- ) His phantasmagoric One Hundred Years of Solitude, published in Argentina in 1967 and translated into English in 1970, delighted readers worldwide and introduced "magic realism" into the critical lexicon. His Nobel Prize in 1982 only ratified his stature as the foremost Latin American writer...
...among your latest identities, "virtual reality" and 3-D displays will bring a new level of realism to our interaction with...
Crace's portrayal of Jesus combines eerie realism with supernatural powers, sort of like a biblical X-Files. At this early stage in his short life the pious Jewish peasant thinks of himself as a gifted healer. Indeed, he cures one of his first patients--a dying merchant--with what seems like one-handed CPR. Musa, the revived trader, is not particularly grateful. His first thought is to sign up the young Jewish healer for a traveling medicine show. Musa is worldliness made flesh, the sort of opportunist and schemer who if asked to swap his soul for profit would...
...wonder about this kind of ambition--The Birdcage was a world-wide smash, but that film was grounded in the novelty of exaggerating gay stereo-types. The Object of My Affection, on the other hand, aims for tenuous realism. Ultimately, this reality is fatally compromised. In trying to make a romantic comedy/melodrama that will be universally loved, the audience is left with a fluffy, unsatisfying corpse of a movie that barely registers...
Churchill's tendency to conduct strategy by impulse infuriated his advisers. His chief of staff Alan Brooke complained that every day Churchill had 10 ideas, only one of which was good--and he did not know which one. Yet Churchill the romantic showed acute realism in his reaction to Russia's predicament. He reviled communism. Required to accept a communist ally in a struggle against a Nazi enemy, he did so not only willingly but generously. He sent a large proportion of Britain's war production to Russia by Arctic convoys, even at a time when the convoys from America...