Word: realism
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After listening to a series of candidates elaborate on ways to improve the city's arts community, incumbent Katherine Triantafillou tried to seize the high ground with realism...
...sober realism of her style that redeemed the novel, its weight and conviction that prevented readers from noticing (or caring) that by replacing noble enigmas with banal behaviorism, Smiley had downsized tragedy to melodrama. The movie version--bereft of diverting literary stratagems, relentlessly focused on what-next narrative--takes it another step down--to soap opera...
Organista's experience helps explain why the NAFTA generation is much more poised to break with entrenched economic and cultural traditions. Young people want realism instead of nationalist ideology in their movies and music, and surveys show they prize honesty, competence and practicality over old-fashioned lockstep thinking and knee-jerk anti-Americanism. With AIDS the third leading killer of Mexicans under age 35, they are demanding a more candid discussion in the traditionally prim media of issues like sexuality. The demands have helped spawn a renaissance in Mexican television, cinema and journalism...
...Communist filmmakers tried entertaining the masses with what the official press derisively called "the most flagrant offspring of the capitalist pleasure industry": musical comedies. East Side Story is the history of that glorious, doomed attempt to create an all-singing, all-dancing genre within the unsmiling dictates of socialist realism...
These two men, who achieved international fame and fortune peddling their respective though vastly different habit-forming products, seem to have been destined for a literary rendezvous. But where? Escobar and his remorseless crew are too malignant for Garcia Marquez's familiar magic realism. Fortunately, the author learned the writer's trade in journalism, where the best editorial advice still comes from Hamlet's mother: "More matter, with less...