Word: realisms
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...actors give a feel of realism to their characters and yet they are also archetypes projected from Bobby's perception of reality. Guastaferro as buddy Joey does well to rein in his character as an outrageous, obnoxious and prejudiced Jew and gets quite a few guffaws about his quixotic dreams of living in Europe. Brooke Adams as Jolly, the disgusted sister, expresses her character's frustrations about being unloved and neglected as a child very convincingly. Of all the actors, her character is the one who seems most like a neurotic person one might meet on the street. Jack Willis...
...classes she uses a lot of experimental fiction from Europe, and so offers to her students a much broader, more exciting range of fictional possibilities, rather than simply the default style of staple Kmart realism used in many creative writing courses across the country," Jenkins said...
College admissions officers credit the increase in students accepted under Harvard's early admission program and a greater sense of realism among high school seniors for the decline...
Phillips was one of the organizers of a fall 1995 protest in Mansfield's class, Moral Reasoning 13: "Realism and Moralism." The protest was held by students in response to Mansfield's criticism of "Diversity and Learning," Rudenstine's report defending racial-preference programs in employment and education...
...Catherine wheel of talent at the end of the long display of Venetian genius that ran from the Bellinis to Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese. Disapproval of Tiepolo was high-toned; his work did not accord with the moralizing grandeur of a later Neoclassicism, still less with the assumptions of Realism. It was rococo, compliant, theatrical and somehow frivolous. It celebrated a city in deep decline and praised a whole string of sometimes pretentious and reactionary patrons. And so forth...