Word: realisms
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According to WROX spokesman John Klops, bands must bring their own record, which they pretend to lip-synch and to play along with. Contestants were judged on the music they played, their dress, degree of realism, crowd response and overall performance...
...traditional arguments about Salesman is whether its diction is failed lyricism or failed realism. But it is neither: its first director, Elia Kazan, says it is written "just off the real." Miller's people are first-and second-generation Americans who have yet to achieve a perfect-pitch imitation of standard American brag, bluff and bluster; their language is thus a precise and moving metaphorical expression of the uneasiness with which they live in the American dream they have not quite assimilated. By touching this language with the accents of Brooklyn's old ethnic neighborhoods, this company simultaneously...
...Above everything else," writes Alexander Haig, "a servant of the President owes his chief the truth." In his forthcoming book, Caveat: Realism, Reagan and Foreign Policy, to be published this month by Macmillan, the former Secretary of State serves up the truth, at least as he sees it, with the bark off. He describes an Executive Branch marked by guerrilla warfare and backbiting, and portrays himself as an "outsider" up against "an Administration of chums...
Haig sees it quite differently. His memoir is not just a defense of his record as Secretary of State, but a blistering counterattack against those former colleagues he blames for bringing him down and for thwarting his policies. Caveat: Realism, Reagan and Foreign Policy, to be published shortly (Macmillan; 384 pages; $17.95), takes its title from the Latin for "warning." The word underscores Haig's argument that the experience of the past three years offers a cautionary lesson in how not to conduct American foreign policy...
...like Kennedy, was made for the camera. In a demagogue, this would have been a dangerous thing. But Reagan was no demagogue. He was, it is true, a man of strong beliefs, but they were traditionally American and, oddly enough, essentially liberal beliefs. The people were asking for realism, for an atmosphere of honest pride in the U.S., an acknowledgment by their leaders of the astonishing things that America had accomplished for its people and for the rest of the world...