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Perhaps in reaction, a new sense of realism has become the vogue in Africa, and the slogan for the continent's chastened '90s might be "Learn to Walk Before You Try to Run." In 1989 the World Bank issued a landmark report titled Sub-Saharan Africa: From Crisis to Sustainable Growth. It warned that if Africa's slide into underdevelopment continued, some countries would soon find themselves in worse poverty than the most stricken Asian lands...
That may be cold realism. But there are times when realism, a clear-sighted understanding of how things are, shades into fatalism, an assumption that they must stay that way. Eagleburger says he learned from Baker's Middle East diplomacy that persistence in a hopeless task can pay off. But the most interesting paradox about Eagleburger is that a man who is by nature an activist -- a lifelong problem solver who fills up a room with his presence and energy -- also insists that "there are sometimes problems," such as Yugoslavia, "for which there is no immediate solution, and there...
...hands of an artist, the tools of digital imaging offer a whole new creative medium -- one that combines the realism of photography with the malleability of oil paints. Once an image is converted to digital form, it can be loaded into a computer and manipulated by any number of software tools. Spots and blemishes can be erased or smoothed over. Shadows can be deepened or lightened. Images can be cloned, combined, sharpened or blurred and then painted from a palette of more than 16 million hues. The final product can be put to paper on a new generation of color...
...thing who must locate her angry strength and the sick thing who has been trying to duplicate herself in other women's images ever since her twin sister died. Director Barbet Schroeder (Reversal of Fortune) sweats too, swathing the mayhem in dusky tones, shifting moods easily from working-girl realism to nightmare melodrama. Yet the piece moves so deliberately that the viewer is able to anticipate the next atrocity, rather than getting thrilled...
...certainly got a style. RACHEL GUNN, R.N., the network's new Sunday-night entry, displays all the earmarks that TV critics have grown to know and hate: broad gags, crass caricatures and a nervy avoidance of sentimentality. The show, set in a kooky hospital, has no pretensions to realism, or even to common sense, and the jokes seem a quaint throwback to an earlier comedy era ("You can call me a doubting Thomas -- or you can call me Marlo Thomas . . ."). What makes it work is the zingy performances by Christine Ebersole (as feisty but lovable Nurse Gunn) and Kevin Conroy...