Word: realisms
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...airlines what he has already done to the auto industry," says Julius Maldutis, an industry analyst at Salomon Brothers. "He buys only at discount." Concedes Delta's Berry: "Discount rates are here to stay, but they must also be realistic." In deed, with a lot more realism and a little more luck, U.S. airlines may finally pull out of their financial nosedive and regain their cruising altitude...
...boys about his "purification" in prison. A dramatic moment hovers in the wings, but the talk degenerates into a discussion of the con's agricultural opinions and the potential disappears. Such subtlety may tell us more about the "purification" than a blown-up scene, but man cannot live on realism and understatement alone. "Boredon is itself boring...
...amateur theater group, the Provincetown Players. Also credited with bringing vemacular to the American stage, he set many of his plays in backgrounds that demanded specific U.S. regional dialects. His ease with language, his imaginative use of sound, light and gesture, his bold experimentation with expressionism and realism and his personal, emotional appeal made American theater a serious endeavor...
...first at reality. All too often, however, one also suspects that he is biting his thumb at the audience. It is not that he refuses to communicate. The themes--madness and sanity, meaning versus nihilism--present themselves at every turn. It's just that their hammering symbolism and anti-realism become tedious after a while. The director, it seems, is almost coercing one to interpret first, watch later. But unless one is prepared to keep a running tally of symbols, the piece is destined--indeed, determined--to remain little more than an enginia wrapped in a metaphor...
...some of the sharp ideological edge has receded from Ronald Reagan's political rhetoric at midterm and a new realism shows in his policies, one Washington insider may be more responsible than any other. He is James Baker, the President's calm, soft-spoken chief of staff, who helped Gerald Ford in 1976 and George Bush in 1980 oppose Reagan for the Republican Party's presidential nomination. The former Texas lawyer has become the President's most influential White House crisis manager. Says a fellow presidential assistant about Baker...