Word: realism
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...author of Abe Fortas: A Biography (1990) and Legal Realism at Yale (1986). A third book, The Search for Community: Republicanism and the Anxiety of Legal Scholarship, has just gone to press, and a fourth, Years of Disenchantment: The United States from Ford through Bush, is currently in preparation...
...Magic realism dictates, moreover, that they be archetypes: Grandpa (Anthony Quinn) is a lusty old windbag; Dad (Giancarlo Giannini) is an uneasy martinet; Mom (Angelica Aragon) is full of soft romantic sentiment. They also, of course, have a fierce, primitive, mystical relationship with the land that nurtures them. The stranger must embrace the acreage before he can embrace their daughter...
...wall realism, The Real World has drawn criticism for being too artificial and contrived. Indeed, the show employs a story department -- a team of three writers who outline a plot for each week's 22-min. episode, culled from hundreds of hours of filmed footage. "We storyboard each scene," says Bunim, "just like in a prime-time series." Notes Murray: "This isn't Frederick Wiseman, where you're going to get a long, incoherent documentary with way more than you want...
...smallest echo in his work--not the sublime rhetoric of Frederick Church, not the tight-surfaced stillness of the Luminists and certainly not the blunt factuality of Winslow Homer. Whistler was a superb topographical etcher, as his scenes of London, Amsterdam and Venice show; but he cared nothing for realism when aesthetics pointed away from...
...common to bird and people watchers, of seeing while being unnoticed; it does put your eye close to the window, several floors up; and this contributes a dreamlike tone to the image, as though you were levitating while the man and woman remained bound by gravity. This is not realism, but the scene is intensely real, a vignette framed in the dark proscenium of the window...