Word: realism
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...should be wary—her focus on such texts as recipes serves not to probe the mundane; rather, this kind of inquiry into the experience of individuals (a person, a text) is rich and informative in a way that certain traditional research lacks. She also brings a vital realism to her scholarship, saying wryly that she always remembers being told that “there are worse things that can be done to a people than teaching them English.” Sen is full of remarkable anecdotes, from how Worcestershire sauce was originally an Indian chutney...
Starring as Sampson the lion – the unimaginatively-named leader of a band of quirky New York City Zoo animals who try to rescue Sampson’s runaway son (Greg Cipes)—Sutherland brings a level of realism to the beast he portrays that no other actor in the film can attain. This is largely because the timbre of his voice enlivens his feline alter-ego, while most everyone else manipulates his/her accent to the point of incomprehensibility...
...they were missing. Meanwhile, the brand-new Iraqi parliament met in a capital under curfew to pull together some kind of future amid warnings of civil war. U.S. forces launched Operation Swarmer, the biggest air assault since the invasion, to root out insurgents north of Baghdad. President Bush embraced realism: "We will see more images of chaos and carnage in the days and months to come," he warned as he argued why that was a price worth paying...
...only one of his 30-plus volumes of fiction and criticism to be published in English. With his focus on family and changing times, Kojima quickly became a star of the "third generation" of Japanese novelists. Along with Shusaku Endo, Shotaro Yasuoka and others, he absorbed the staid realism of the prewar generations and added new energy and introspection. Now 91, Kojima lives quietly in Tokyo...
...Fine Arts, abandoned the familiar natural beauty of Adirondack ponds and the glory of Venice but pursued the realist tradition with stark but tender scenes inspired by daily life. Demuth—with his trademark sparse but concentrated application of color—turned to a cubist-influenced realism, as is evident in his entrancing “Fruit and Sunflowers?...