Word: realism
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...connecting his fictional world to reality.Viewed in context, this cigar has no explicit connection to the thread of James’s “The Aspern Papers;” its inclusion, to the stingy reader, may seem superfluous and irrelevant. But a writer who wishes to create realism and truth does not stick only to necessary details. Life, Wood argues, is “full of surplus detail,” like the cigar. If reality does not distinguish between indispensable and “gratuitous” details, neither should the writer. In scrutinizing works, Wood...
...theatrical run at the Kendall Square Cinema on October 17, revolves around the impact that a man’s suicide has on his twin brother, ex-lover, and young son. Utilizing three nonprofessional, local actors to portray the principal characters lends the film a sense of weight and realism. But the actors do far more in the film than act; according to Hammer, they were even responsible for writing the actual dialogue. “People are an extension of a place for me, so the language had to come from them,” Hammer said. Though...
...unfortunate and unfair byproduct of not being born in an English-speaking country is that one cannot naturally create visual art using the ‘cultura franca’ of the day. China may have been blocked off during the Beatles, not have been there for New Realism, and then prevented from being part of Pop Art, but that doesn’t mean that they cannot relate to us without essentializing themselves, or conversely, that we cannot understand them outside of those essentializations...
Olmert is no Arab-loving pacifist. As Prime Minister, he ravaged half of Lebanon in 2006 in a military offensive after Hizballah killed and kidnapped Israeli soldiers. He has unmercifully turned the screws on Hamas-controlled Gaza. Olmert's comments reflect a profound shift toward realism among Israeli rightists, akin to what Palestinian and Arab nationalists started going through three decades ago, when Israel was in the prime of its strategic strength. The shift is evident not only in Olmert's prescription for a peace settlement, but also in his severe critique of a righteous Israeli mind-set that...
...realism behind Olmert's change of heart is of tremendous import, summed up by one sentence: "The international community is starting to view Israel as a future binational state." In other words, forget about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threats to wipe Israel off the map. Echoing views he initially expressed in 2003, Olmert reasons that without an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, the Jewish state faces the self-inflicted, mortal danger of being destroyed by demographics, overwhelmed by Muslim and Christian Arabs demanding political representation. Olmert fears that the international community could ultimately favor a one-state solution...