Word: realisms
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...with Wilson's staging of the play. Of all of Ibsen's plays, the last four, and particularily When We Dead Awaken, are largely symbolic in nature. When We Dead Awaken, so highly autobiographical, lends itself to introspective interior monologues. Yet as modern drama it is not unconcerned with realism. Wilson's adaptation and direction, in their effect at least, are. The tremendous liberties taken with the play's staging reflect this difference poignantly...
...collected pictures are delicate and intriguing, illustrating the combination of realism and Baroque drama prominent in Rembrandt's work. The pieces range from Rembrandt's high Baroque style to his later, lyric pictures. The majority of the etchings are biblical scenes, a favorite genre of Rembrandt, of a remarkable quality...
...George Bush's skillfully constructed international coalition. Already suffering economicaly, those nations currently arrayed against Iraq cannot withstand endless months of further sanctions. As history shows, embargoes can only get weaker. We share the staff's aversion to war and its hopes for peace, but our sense of realism raises doubts about an indefinite reliance on sanctions...
...General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The last months and days of Simon Bolivar, the brilliant and thwarted liberator of South America, are imaginatively reconstructed by the acknowledged master of magic realism. As the general flees from his progressive illness and ungrateful people, he trails, in his turbulent wake, a hyperactive tale of grandeur and disillusionment...
...succeeded in the more difficult task of finding a cinematic equivalent for the novelist's singular style. Using unconventional angles, lenses and light, he accomplishes on the screen what Wolfe achieved on the page through deliciously exaggerated dialogue and deadpan parody. De Palma lifts us out of banal realism but stops short of forcing surrealism's affectations upon...