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Characters speak English, even when they're supposed to be speaking Irish. Friel's convention is difficult to accept, especially when his play deals with language at such a fundamental level and is so firmly grounded in realism. Director Howard Davies compounds the problem by failing to distinguish when characters are speaking in translated Irish or actual English, causing frequent confusion...
Matthew B. Brady's reworked and hand-colored studio pictures are miniature versions of the slick and stern protraits of dead white males that gaze out on the Freshman Union walls. It is disconcerting to see how his studio's efforts make the photographs lose realism to become flatly colored images. In mimicking the 19th century landscape paintings of John Constable, Peter Henry Emerson's delicate landscape photographs ironically achieve the realism those paintings painstakingly sought...
...dawn of the machine age brought the camera to a new state of self-awareness. Photographers eschewed the painting-like limitations by experimenting with angles, fragmented imagery and new developing techniques. Chasing Shadows' next conceptual segment, "Creative Vision," demonstrates photography's prerogative to meld realism with creative distortion...
...think a lot of the reason for the increase is the realism and the scope that our program offers in the way of learning about the American political process," said HMC President Stephen...
...drama in "Federal Hill" is un-American, unaided by satisfying camera movement and impeded by occasionally awkward performances from inexperienced movie actors. Though commendable for his obvious dedication to realism and down-to-earth movie-making, Corrente overestimates the attention span of movie-goers and underestimates their sophistication...