Word: realisms
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...honest folk at Southland Corporation, though, have done their best to keep some measure of realism in Christmas 1981. Ronald Reagan, John Paul II, Anwar Sadat all were felled by gunmen this year; what, then, could be more topical, more true to life, than a board game called "Assassin...
...Realism first entered the world of dolls when spitting up and wetting became optional features. One toymaker has carried it a bit farther this year, though, with a doll (ostensibly designed for children) that "talks" when you toss it around...
...sculpture is mainly of the social ist realism school. Not that realism is un acceptable; we are rediscovering its value. The trouble is that no sculptor since Augustus Saint-Gaudens has been able to come up with a convincing metaphor that can be realistically rendered. The gods of Greek mythology have fled...
...cloys: "He really wasn't so much a fool as he was giddy about still being alive." Lengthy erotic descriptions tend to become postcoital arias. But Har rison scores well on the firing range: his humor usually strikes in the killing zone. Dashiell Hammett's low-rent realism made the mystery novel fun to read. War lock demonstrates that it is equally enjoy able to spoof...
Pixote is one of the most powerful films ever made about poverty and oppression in Latin America. Its lack of overt moral commentary is more than compensated for by its stark, at times shocking, realism. Even the most graphic American films seem tame by comparison. Babenco uses scenes of crude abortion and vicious sodomy to capture the misery of an impoverished and overpopulated Third World metropolis. Filth, noise, chaos, this is Pixote's world: grim walls, dim light, inane pop music blaring in the background...