Word: realisms
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...stealing and spending every penny they could lay their hands on that much more frightening. I kept thinking this doesn't happen to nice people; we know how to keep these things under control. But it does, and we don't." Helping make that point with horrifying realism, New York Correspondent James Wilde went with a cash-laden couple on a Sunday drug-buying trip to "Alphabet Town" on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Wilde's report accompanies the cover story...
...north side of Tulsa: the socs occupy the south. But The Outsiders' sensibility is operatic enough to make the film into another West Side Story. From its first frames, when Stevie Wonder croons a pop ballad over images of suburban sunsets, Coppola sets the tone of poetic realism, Hollywood style. The greasers, with their sleek muscles and androgynous faces, display a leonine athleticism as they move through dusty lots or do a graceful, two-handed vault over a chain-link fence. Their camaraderie is familial, embracing, unselfconsciously homoerotic. Left to their better selves, they can easily go all moony...
...wife and daughters to accept the boy. The issue is never much in doubt, since Martin Sheen plays this humanities professor as if his subject were actually humanitarianism. As the wife, Blythe Danner does her customary turn as the best thing about a bad mess. But even her tart realism cannot rescue this movie from its sappy source...
...Indeed, Fairfield Porter never had to interfere in the affairs of the world; he just sat been and took in the panorama around him, a panorama of, as John Updike '54 put it., "nice people, nice places, pleasantly redolent of affection and sensitivity." The results show that sometimes realism can go just as far an abstraction in imparting a unique philosophical outlook on life...
...found in the underbrush, and it's of no use except to somebody with only one good leg. But this doesn't happen very often, usually corpses are found with both shoes intact.' Valenzuela's tone is a far cry from fantasy. Says she: "Magical realism was a beautiful resting place, but the thing is to go forward." The way is now clear. After 100 years of solitude, Latin writers are demanding and getting more than occasional solicitude. - R.Z. Sheppard