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...Realism...
...other Harvard experts interviewed saw in the speech growing political realism in the President, considered by some a hard-lined ideologue. Richard E. Neustadt, Littauer Professor of Public Administration said that Reagan's speech showed increasing concern with political opposition in the House, which has become increasingly defiant of Reagan in recent months. "At this juncture it's too difficult to tell if he's acting out of calculated bargaining or simple conviction," the former advisor to John F. Kennedy '40 said. Neustadt noted that when Presidents are facing serious opposition, they usually ask for more than they want...
...elegant survey of the men and women behind the camera. Unquestionably all those in the book are artists. It is impossible to flip through these pages and not feel delight, wonder, surprise and that baser response to creative expression, the acquisitive itch. The examples range from the early photo realism of Eugene Durieu that imitates portrait painting to contemporary collage by Carel Balth that explores puzzling questions of perception. The text by Jean-Luc Daval, lecturer in art history at the University of Geneva, brings both the technique and the aesthetic of this dominant 20th century medium into sharp, tingling...
...Buckwheat, or a stereotyped bad dude. In 48 Hours, he checks the manta of Saturday Night Live and straightforwardly portrays a cool guy with a good sense of humor. He injects a gritty comic relief without destroying all the tension built up by the scenes of violence and urban realism...
...Indian, the psychopath, Murphy and Nolte stalk each other by the eerie glow of the neon lights through the fog. The final explosive shots are in slow motion, and put 48 Hours on a par with Dirty Harry, White Lightning and The French Connection. With fast action, violence, urban realism, 48 Hours unites the best elements of escapism...