Word: realisms
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...control" is how one of Eastwood's veteran crewmen once described his working methods-a seeming indifference to auteurial imperatives that somehow gets him, most of the time, exactly what he wants: spontaneity and realism, qualities virtually synonymous in his mind. In practical terms, that means he's always hoping to get the shot he wants on the first take-rough magic being of more interest to him than the more smoothly polished kind...
...most recent offering, Del Amor y Otros Demonios, Colombian Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez reconstructs life in the colonialera Americas with his usual flourishes of magic realism. I've always thought that the way in which the Americas assumed its current form, or came to be--through a process shaped by desire and fear--is the most exciting, magical story of all. I feel very much like an explorer of old. So although my adventures in the United States are rapidly coming to an end, my--or rather, our--American adventure is just beginning...
...right there in the center. I think of the military as being like a fraternity, as a closed society in which I recognize myself as an outsider. My brother becoming a high-ranking officer in the Marine Corps has, perhaps, intensified this feeling in recent years. The cold realism of the militarist is a sensibility that I've been exposed to, and am comfortable with. It's present in my poems. But there's also the flushed believer of the Catholic. There's a tension between the two sensibilities, a zone where some of my poems are born...
...have survived a shooting, explosion or natural disaster tend to be generally fearful, have trouble sleeping and have difficulty concentrating and carrying on their normal activities. Those who are especially sensitive to stress may suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder, in which the mind keeps replaying the trauma with terrifying realism. Others will deny the experience entirely, treating the disaster as a story, often as something that happened to someone else. Many become edgy and almost hyperactive...
Suleiman echoes Berenguier's charge againstLoupan, who claims to have heard her course on20th-century Realism...