Word: realism
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...fact remains that writers, like industrialists, exploit resources. And writers usually get more personal. Roth's heightened realism works because it is faithful to specific locales, customs, attitudes and speech patterns. His urban Jews would be out of place in Addis Ababa. Ironically, fame made Roth himself vulnerable to distortion and caricature by the heightened realists who turn successes into celebrities. To be regarded as the thinking man's Woody Allen is the sort of acclaim he can live without...
...audience with some submissive mutters of "excuse me." The moment when the jealous Count gives Cherubino an army officer's commission to remove him from the scene--immortalized by Mozart in his mock-heroic, trumpet-and-drum aria "Non piu andrai..."--Epstein appropriates for a bit of grisly realism: Figaro grabs Cherubino by the shoulders and shakes him into an awareness of the horrors...
...mode of Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears-this year's Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film-is a kind of patient realism. The style is not flashy, but it is satisfying because it makes clear just what the protagonist, Katerina (Vera Alentova), has suffered and sacrificed in order to earn her nice car and nice apartment and the right to those middle-aged tears that Moscow so distrusts...
...business world want," says Jerry Harvey, professor of management science at George Washington University. "We've designed organizations that reward people who think very narrowly and behave very narrowly. Why aren't management textbooks funny? It's because they don't have much realism to them. If they had much realism to them, they'd be funny as hell...
Look at almost any new movie, and you will find its spirit fettered in realism, soldered to the everyday. When a film attempts to soar into the oneiric, with voluptuous imagery and italicized feelings, it is likely to be grounded by those air-traffic controllers of popular culture, the critics. Excalibur is such a film. Viewers are advised to decide for themselves if John Boorman's retelling of the Arthurian romance is a dove or a dodo...