Word: realisms
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...Iran-contra fiasco and Bork's defeat in the Senate have given the President strong incentive to play up the significance of the forthcoming agreement. Add the stock market instability, and the President's last claim to fame is in jeopardy. So Reagan has abandoned his avowed realism in order to distort the agreement's utility...
...comedy become so glum loving? Part of it can be attributed to the medium's cyclical swings. When the provocative Norman Lear comedies of the early '70s went out of fashion, sitcoms retreated to escapist fluff; now realism and relevance are coming back into vogue. The networks, moreover, are fond of high-profile, easily promotable episodes that can draw attention to a series. ("Next week on I Love Valerie: a crack dealer moves into the neighborhood.") Equally important, many writers and producers, tired of feeding the sitcom gag machine, are looking for ways to stretch the old formulas. Says Hugh...
...Frears, who two years ago collaborated on the low-budget My Beautiful Laundrette, have - no time for the dramatic verities. They're breathless with all the hot news inside them. In his diary that accompanies the film's published screenplay, Kureishi describes Sammy & Rosie as his usual "mixture of realism and surrealism, seriousness and comedy, art and gratuitous sex . . . All the bits and pieces will just have to get along with each other, like people at a party." But that is too modest for the sprawling expanse of this film. Laundrette was a fractious house party; Sammy & Rosie...
...ruined." Moreover, the alteration meant that Wolfe had to study the breed in its habitat, to examine its plumage, to listen to the roar of "well-educated young white men baying for money." In short, New Journalism shares much with the traditional novel of manners and society. "Realism is a plateau from which literature cannot back down," says Wolfe, acknowledging his debt to Balzac, Thackeray, Dickens and Evelyn Waugh...
...called by supporters, into a legendary figure. And this glorification of character may be the film's greatest fault. For example, classical music is used to glorify Rosa during her great speeches. Fortunately, the highly unflattering portrayal of Luxemburg's personal life returns the film to the realm of realism...