Word: realism
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...unusual company that will appear at the festival all summer is the Théâtre du Soleil (Theater of the Sun) from France. Founded in 1964 by Oxford-educated Director Ariane Mnouchkine, the troupe attempts to create a theater of pure metaphor, stripped of the last trace of realism. Believing that all Westerners are too close to Shakespeare to really see him, Mnouchkine borrows from the traditions of the Orient to seek the dramatic core of his plays. French, from her own translation, is the language coming from her actors' mouths, but the dramatic idiom in the three...
...docudrama's portrayal of Soviet life is unconvincing, especially after the flavorful re-creations in such recent films as Gorky Park and Moscow on the Hudson. Its aspirations to realism are frequently betrayed by melodramatics. KGB agents seem to lurk behind every door, like B-movie heavies. But when a witness at a political trial surreptitiously slips a sheaf of documents to Sakharov just before taking the stand, the action is miraculously unseen by any of the guards in the crowded courtroom...
...with is not the same as selling out. Yet the process is almost completely uniform for the members of the Class of '69 raise a family, move into a stable career, buy a house, and--perhaps--lose a little idealism along the way. In its place comes a little realism some say; others perceive individual interest; and yet others just say that day-to-day concerns naturally push aside the urgency of their old campus activism...
...best game I have," says Carl Hutter, 7, an ace from Carson City, Nev., who once flew the simulator from New York to Los Angeles. "The hardest part is landing at Chicago at night." Abbott Paine, a pilot from Orange, Calif., praises the program's realism: "The view is terrific. When you turn, the landscape turns...
...same time, the situation comedy seems to have lost the central place it once held in the nation's cultural consciousness. In the early 1970s, a bracing dose of social realism was injected into a genre previously dominated by white picket fences, pipe-smoking fathers, mischievous genies and flying nuns. Sitcoms began to tackle controversial issues, from racial bigotry to abortion, and to portray, often with biting candor, the way contemporary adults interact with one another at home and in the workplace. Sitcoms kept people home nights, inspired fads and catch phrases and created stars...