Word: realism
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...there any grownups in the movie world? Yes, in Europe, where the French have restored ooh-la-la to art-house films with the explicit depiction of sexuality. And by explicit we mean X-plicit: copulation, fellatio and other human activities, shown with a realism that is hard core or close to it. Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl, about the rivalry of two sisters, 12 and 15, features a 20-min. scene of foreplay between the 15-year-old and her would-be deflowerer. At the heart, or groin, of the Anglo-French Intimacy is a bluntly staged affair between...
...Haruki Murakami (b. 1949) tries to effect a kind of Japanese magic realism, but is a much tamer and less venturesome writer. But novels such as Dance Dance Dance and Norwegian Wood have been runaway best sellers, racking up sales in the millions, and his short stories have been published in prestigious American magazines such as The New Yorker. However, Sputnik Sweetheart (Kodansha International; 210 pages), the latest shot out of the Murakami cannon, sadly promises more than it can deliver and proves...
Fuss sucessfully infuses a kind of meta-realism into his work, using the actual process as a means of bringing the outside world into abstraction. His photograms—prints created sans negative, by placing objects directly on photosensitive material—resemble a cross between the line and drips of Pollock and the intertwining strands of a DNA molecule. In his photogram from the series “Details of Love” (1992), childlike and uneven multi-colored (but predominantly black) squiggles dance around the browned surface, pulling and leaping and creating a tangled web. The lines...
...brought a quiet but unmistakable moral leadership. But his is a moral leadership tempered with realism and exercised with a light touch, highlighting issues and engaging with governments and other stakeholders in search of plausible solutions. Annan has never wielded real power, and that may be his strength. His ability to effect outcomes derives entirely from his powers of persuasion, his knack for showing the partisans to any particular conflict that there is a high road, and that they're capable of walking it. It's plainly not all that easy to say no to a man so persuasively given...
...That?s not to say Lugar wouldn?t be pleased to see an increase, but realism prevails. "Of course the Senator would love to have more money for the program," Fisher says, "but Congress felt they could afford $400 million in the Defense Department budget - and it doesn?t make sense to ask for more money if it just isn?t out there...