Word: realism
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...Kandinsky, Miró, and Klee experimented with abstract watercolor composition, American artists were “rediscovering and searching for their roots in the early watercolorists,” said Stebbins. Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Demuth and John Marin—all early experimenters with realism, abstraction and modernism—took on the yoke previously worn by Sargent and Homer...
...way—in graphic and brutal fashion. Extreme violence and moral simplicity is, of course, a hallmark of the action and crime genres. Nobody goes to see a movie like this expecting a deep dissection of the implications of violence on society, or even necessarily a shred of realism. It is, however, a reasonable expectation that if it’s not going to provide either of those things, it will at least be escapist fun. What “Running Scared” provides instead is a nonsensical plot, dialogue that consists mostly of variations on Paul Walker...
...blame the movies for Cube’s domestication: with the exception of John Singleton’s stellar “Boyz n the Hood,” none of his film projects has been faithful to the grimy realism of his best records—“Straight Outta Compton” or “AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted...
Ultimately, the Congress’s policy on gays in the military is unfortunate, but it is the reality that universities must face for the foreseeable future. Harvard should be prepared to work with this reality, in recognition of a broader national interest. Not only is realism the right policy to adopt in principle, it also has the happy side-effect of hastening the end of unreasonable discrimination against gays in the military. If our objections to recruiters are genuinely based on a concern for gay rights, we do those rights a greater service by welcoming recruiters back to campus...
...past six years, I have shunned this type of realism as the job of Democrats, or as a Californian friend said last year, “girlie-men.” But with last week’s announcements that General Motors lost $8.6 billion in 2005, that the radical terrorist group Hamas won a majority of seats in the democratically elected Palestinian government, and that Iran will continue its march towards a nuclear bomb, America must come to the realization that its future is not inherently rosy...