Word: realisms
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While he is juggling all that, Aristide must instill a spirit of realism among follows who have been swept up in the wild euphoria of his return. Their immense anticipation has generated hopelessly extravagant expectations -- so inflated, in fact, that the President risks failing before he is even given a chance. "People will hold him to unfairly high standards," says an American official. "There are exaggerated expectations of his -- and our -- ability to make fundamental changes...
...this is no freak show. It is a poignant, often funny fable, unfolding like a cautionary bedtime tale. It skips delicately among the ruins of passion, obsession and propriety. As in the novel and movie Like Water for Chocolate, family matters are treated in a mode balanced between magic realism and tragic surrealism...
...China's early economic restructuring stem[s] from a deep-rooted historic and cultural background, which can best be characterized by pragmatism and realism free from ideological constraints," Sung-Joo said at the Kennedy School of Government's ARCO Forum...
...entertains. Levin plays the piano with the ease of a Gov-jock ranting about Enlightened Realism. And that's not all--he explicates the music as he plays, voice-over style, with such lucidity and grace that it appears his words are somehow part of the score...
There was, however, nothing particularly revolutionary about his paintings. Seeking a credible genius costume, he did versions of Cubism, of De Chirico's pittura metafisica, and developed his dry, classicizing realism in such images as Seated Girl Seen from the Back, 1925. It is an easy matter to go through this early work identifying, here and there, what would grow and what would not: how the taste for smoothly curved profile and deep black relief that he got from Amedee Ozenfant's decorative Cubism, for instance, turned into Dali's later fondness for writhing, spookily dark shadows cast by figures...