Word: realism
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...really improving for us. I’m pretty optimistic.” Although the Crimson, particularly the Nordic team, showed marked signs of improvement, Harvard still has much work to do to move up in the league. “It all has to be tempered by realism,” Graves said. “It might be very difficult to get out of ninth place this year, but we’re trying. For us to do it, it will have to be based on collective performances by the alpine and Nordic teams. It is still going...
...angle shots, graphic close-ups of violence and terror. Eisner's world seemed more real than the world of other comic book men because it looked that much more like a movie. ... The further films dug into the black fantasies of a depression generation the more they were labeled realism. Eisner retooled this mythic realism to his own uses: black fantasies on paper. Just as with the movies, it was labeled realism...
...Bush team has split over whether to abandon the ambition that underpinned the invasion of Iraq--to bring Western-style democracy to the Islamic world--in favor of conventional Realpolitik, in which idealism takes a backseat to stability. The most obvious signals that the U.S. is tilting back toward realism came on Rice's trip to the Middle East last month, in which she toned down calls for democracy for the Arabs and talked up her desire to broker a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, something she and Bush have avoided for six years...
...being restrained. And in an age when reports of literature's demise are a constant dirge, Hall has helped keep the novel alive with his own wildly unpredictable outpourings. From meticulously researched historical sagas to dystopian futurism (Kisses of the Enemy), parallel universes (The Last Love Story) and magic realism (The Island in the Mind), the thrice Booker Prize?nominated novelist has surfed genres seemingly at random. Hall is an automatic writer in the Surrealist sense, giving vent to his dark subconscious. So it hardly comes as a surprise when the author stops to admire a graffiti-scribbled wall, against...
...girl in Franco's Spain seeks refuge from her vicious militarist stepfather by retreating into a woodland wonderland. Guillermo del Toro mixes the airiest fantasy with the harshest social realism to prove that fascism is a fairy tale of power and a nightmare of terror...