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Shadows and Fog ends -- perhaps a little too abruptly -- as so many of ! Allen's recent films do, with a touch of magic realism. But that too achieves a surprisingly apt stylistic fit. The scope of this short piece may be small, but it is also a vivid, vigorous and often entrancing movie...
Former Mass. Sen. Paul E. Tsongas, the Democratic winner, said his victory was a triumph for economic realism...
...more stable and peaceful world and with a great danger of a lapse into chaos and turmoil if the nation misguidedly turns its attention totally inward. He offers quite detailed advice on what to do about specific areas of potential trouble, generally in a spirit of cold-blooded realism. Again and again he insists on the continued importance of military power. If the U.S. wants to retain economic and . political influence in the new Europe, he says, it had better keep some troops there as well. Punishing China for the 1989 massacres of prodemocracy demonstrators by enacting a total economic...
...impulse, not a prosaic one. He confines the action to the same few hundred acres of his ancestral Cumberlands, telling a nation's story in terms of feelings for that patch of land among three families intertwined by treachery and revenge. Warner Shook's staging vividly mixes ritual and realism. While Schenkkan is far better at incident than character, Charles Hallahan and Tuck Milligan enact just the sort of rogues whom descendants go on talking about. The plays strive for mythic power -- and attain it. W.A.H...
This production obscures Mamet's brilliance because it focusses its attention on realism. The weakness of the Scully production is that Lithgow and Todd are allowed to forget they are engaged in theatre...