Word: realism
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...time to thank Ross Perot. Though bedecked with his customary flowers and frills, President Clinton's speech on Monday night owed its strength to the core of realism that the Texas billionaire has injected into American politics...
...first part of the film, which takes place on the farm where Beauty's family lives, is a tribute to the Dutch painter Jan Vermeer. Cocteau achieves a heightened sense of realism through careful composition and austere lighting. He presents a vision of simplicity and common sense, the antithesis of the world inside the palace of the Beast, where fantasy reigns supreme. There, candelabra are held by human hands protruding from the walls, a magical mirror contains the visage of a beloved and an enchanted white steed roams the halls. The palace in the midst of the dark woods...
...mark today, on the work of figurative artists like Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach and even Francis Bacon. Sickert's "brown world" of rented rooms in Camden Town, with their plump, sweaty nudes, sprawled on iron bedsteads, dense and claustrophobic, runs into the younger painters', its solidly constructed Realism forming a bridge across the light turbulence of derivative avant- gardism in so much British...
Shadow Play is definitely corilineal. Baxter's setting is conventional small-town America, but his scenes are as eerie as the realism of Edward Hopper paintings. Five Oaks is a town where history no longer takes root. Industry is elsewhere. Spirits too have up and gone. People have dusty backgrounds and odd occupations. A Palmer neighbor is a retired airline dietitian; a young woman describes herself as a Con-Tact-paper decorator...
...purely idealistic; they involved realistic appraisals of his nation's economic and strategic interests. But he was correct in claiming that Americans prefer such assertions of national interest to be accompanied by moral ideals, each helping to cloak the other. From the Monroe Doctrine to Manifest Destiny, idealism and realism were the warp and woof of U.S. foreign policy. In a nation that views its economic and political system as righteous, the distinction between interests and ideals tends to blur...