Word: realisms
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...praise him. Reason: Clinton has finally signed on to French policy in Bosnia. As a Foreign Ministry official in Paris observed, "We now feel we are dealing with a really responsible leader." It is quite a climb-down for Clinton, though the Administration says it is simply realism -- and that may be true. In January 1993 he dismissed European proposals to partition Bosnia as too favorable to the Serbs and a reward for their aggression. In Paris he agreed to put Washington's full weight behind a plan that would give the Bosnian government, composed mostly of Muslims, and federation...
...writer Deborah Rogin, plays on the Berkeley campus until July 10, then opens the fall season at Boston's Huntington Theatre before being rethought for a new Los Angeles staging next spring. The spectacle is impressive but often slow and emotionally remote. In veering away from the kitchen-sink realism of most immigrant dramas, Rogin and Ott have made too much oblique. Despite program notes, many allusions to Chinese heritage will elude even spectators acquainted with Peking Opera, the crucial inspiration. To Ott, femaleness, not ethnicity, is at the heart of the story. "The relationships this girl has with...
...back wall. And Matthew Gelbert, who has the important role of a white English colleague of Daryl, refrains from overplaying just enough to be believable and effective. As a clear third party, Gelbert's role is potentially more disagreeable than Meekins', yet he too grounds it in a complex realism that is surprisingly three-dimensional given his time on stage...
...fact, America's idealism and realism have been interwoven ever since Benjamin Franklin played an ingenious balance-of-power game in France while simultaneously propagandizing about America's exceptional values. From the Monroe Doctrine to Manifest Destiny, the U.S. has linked its interests to its ideals. This was especially true during the cold war, which was a moral crusade as well as a security struggle...
Yards of dialogue have been taken almost verbatim from the novel. It is a token of Eliot's genius for realism that most of it rings truer than some of the words concocted by Middlemarch's capable scenarist, Andrew Davies. In a bodice-ripping love scene that is not in the novel, Rosamond tells her smitten husband, "You must be gentle with me, Tertius, now I am with child." Even on her worst day, George Eliot could never have written a line as precious as that...