Word: realisms
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...bring to the negotiating table on both intermediate and strategic missiles, Reagan has remained remote, ready only to issue a reassuring, but misleading, impression of progress to the American people. Mondale has clearly demonstrated an aptitude for the hard details that make arms control agreements, and his combination of realism with a firm desire to reverse the arms race would do much to bring about a constructive relationship with the Soviets in the next four years...
...avoided using blacks in Birth of a Nation. As evidence you cite the fact that the major Negro roles were all played by whites in blackface. The reason is that in 1915 there were no black actors in Hollywood experienced enough to play these parts. In the interest of realism, Griffith would have hired them if he could have found them...
Giselle is a shamelessly romantic ballet, taking place in that fictional world where sincere courtship's take only a few minutes to complete. Twentieth century skepticism is out of place here. The ballet can seem shallow, but only if one expects realism. The Boston Ballet has difficulty suspending belief in this fictional world for most of the first act. Rhythmically, the village scene is halting and awkward, reminding us that this is not reality. Even the company's admirable technique does not hide this major flaw...
With an unsuccessful brand of simplified Midwestern realism. Country tells--or perhaps champions is a better word--the story of a modern day farm family, the lvys, and their struggle against unfavorable farm legislation that threatens to take their land away from them...
...good place to hide out from hard truth. Richard Yates is usually considered a master of the realistic voice: spare and shrewd, cutting and chilling. But for all the leanness of his writing, his language can carry considerable weight. Without apparent effort it eases past the conventions of simple realism toward deadpan comedy and social panorama. Young Hearts Crying could stand as a definitive portrait of a man and woman, maturing in the 1940s, who spend the next three decades trying to get a grip on dwindling dreams that will not die and who have to settle down and, finally...