Word: realisms
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...pressured reader in search of humor, A Summons to Memphis provides it. The comedy is situational, two spinster sisters preventing their octagenerian father from remarrying; descriptive, this same eccentric duo frequenting nightclubs, dressed in sequined, clingy, front-and-back plunging fashions; and double-edged, undercut by a gently cynical realism. The comic sensibility is particular to Taylor's novel, but the truths revealed are universal...
Yukica exhibited a bit more realism when asked about how his much-publicized, off-season legal battle with the college--which ended in a legal injunction allowing Yukica to coach through the conclusion of the '86 campaign--has affected the team this year...
...them. Improbable as this plot was, it permitted Norman to explore with sensitivity a dramatically less riveting, emotionally more subtle matter: an archetypally vexatious mother-daughter relationship. In adapting play to screen, Norman and Director Tom Moore have been somewhat undone by their new medium's imperatives. The realism of camera close-ups turns probability into utter implausibility. And the casting of Anne Bancroft and Sissy Spacek, who cannot help projecting intelligence and the will to prevail, is inimical to the story's cause. Still, the painful honesty of the play's psychological observations survives and remains worthy of attention...
...Attorney Lea Purwin D'Agostino told jurors in a packed Los Angeles courtroom. "These were not deaths in which someone can get up and wipe the bloody-looking catsup off their faces . . . They were very, very real deaths." Indeed, said D'Agostino, it was Director John Landis' "zeal for realism" during the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie that took the lives of Actor Vic Morrow and two children in a helicopter accident on July...
Some Western officials tried to find encouraging signs from the meeting. British diplomats claimed to detect new realism in the summit's debates because the conferees rejected a Cuban proposal to praise the Soviet Union's support for nonaligned nations. But the Reagan Administration did not draw such fine distinctions. Said State Department Spokesman Charles Redman: "The litany of arbitrary and unfounded charges is both highly offensive and counterproductive...