Word: realism
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...videos are beautiful, from a purely aesthetic sense and from the distinct realism woven into the stories she tells. A video from class last year chronicles a trip Buckingham took with her younger sister to visit their grandmother. Buckingham's talented camera work is evident; she uses images shot of passing land along the highway while her car is moving, as well as images of her sister driving. She chronicles the miniscule, from a stop for a cigarette and coffee to her grandmother's demonstration of a vegetable grinder. A shot of a computer screen with a drawing...
VIDEO-GAME VERITE Video games are pushing the boundaries of realism--and budgetary constraints. By the time Sega's Shenmue for Dreamcast hit the U.S., it cost the company nearly $80 million. Part of the challenge was to create an interactive version of a city--in this case, Yokosuka, Japan, ca. 1986--in which you can knock on virtually every door on every street. What's next? Maybe your front door...
...earth-goddess colors, she looks like nobody else in popular music. Her voice cutting like a subtle blade, her beats pumping like block parties, she mixes myriad influences in her work, but winds up sounding just like herself. Her spectacular debut album, Baduizm (1997), blended hip-hop realism with soul-sister mysticism. Now, with her new CD, Mama's Gun (Motown), Badu faces a dilemma. Will she get so caught up in her own arresting persona that it devolves into schtick? Or, in the bit of real estate she's staked out, does she have as-yet-unrevealed alleys...
...those?), the culture of Silicon Valley, and the strange habits of deconstructionists. After all, what better material for entertainment than that which is actually happening and unfolding around you? So goes the mantra of Tom Wolfe. He has established himself as the most visible (or vocal) proponent of detailed realism in American letters today, and his entire body of work is permeated by the premise that the best subject for a story is that elusive little thing called real life...
...face, Bush's realism might seem a more prudent application of U.S. resources than Gore's crusading interventionism. But the messiness of the global scene requires active, consistent American leadership--which is impossible if the U.S. insists simply on staying at home. In that sense, Gore's assertive policy appears more appropriate in the current environment, in which U.S. security faces no grave challenges, but regional flare-ups can still become destabilizing conflagrations. It's not surprising that Bush has struggled to remain consistent. He says stability in "our own hemisphere" would be among his four top foreign policy priorities...