Word: realism
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...fact, only five graduates of Harvard College have ever made their way to the presidency. John F. Kennedy ’40 was the last. John Adams, Class of 1755, was the first. All face-the-facts realism aside, there will probably be more in America’s future (Gore in ’04?). And it is certain that several students would do almost anything to make it to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. themselves...
...Century documents the influence of the great 17th and 18th century Spanish painters - Velázquez, Mur?llo, Zurbarán, Ribéra, Goya - on such 19th century French artists as Manet, Delacroix, Chassériau and Courbet. What the French learned from their Spanish predecessors was a gritty realism previously unknown in France's academic art world - ordinary subjects like beggars and street urchins, freely painted, with color used to sculpt volume and the daring use of black. One caveat: the curators have chosen to display the show's 115 paintings and drawings in chronological order, Spaniards first, French...
Stylistically, GYWO is closer to realism than to anything else, with its bloody descriptions of current events. But Rees retains the right to mix it up with utterly weird moments like the arrival of Voltron, the animated robot from a 1984 television series. Voltron, despite his size and fighting capacity, stands around as much at a loss as any of the other office workers, though at one point a security guard declares that he “looks foreign”; eventually he turns into a coat-rack, signifying that even the most surreal presences become habitual after enough exposure...
Humanitarianism would not have abolished slavery in the U.S. or shut down Hitler's gas chambers. Sometimes what decency needs is neither optimism nor pessimism but realism, a big stick and the will to use it. --By Lance Morrow
...watchful, wary Fowler is closer to Greene, for whom cynicism was just a dirty word for realism. He is beguiled by Pyle because of the American's very blandness; a man so open must be hiding something. Even Pyle's declaration of love for Phuong has to be the cover story for a more nefarious agenda. When the movie had a special showing last month at the Toronto Film Festival, Caine called the film "a cautionary tale. And the caution is: Don't try to take a 20-year-old girl away from a 68-year...