Word: realisms
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...into a potentially dangerous sociopath like her father. Trevor has an uncanny understanding of love, delusion, hope and, in Tyte's case, the buried anger that "had driven him in search of presents." It is a tribute to the author's moral instincts and talent for psychological realism that one can sympathize with Tyte and also want to wring his neck. -ByR.Z. Sheppard
Foti thinks the statues must date from not much later than the Archaic period, which ended in 450 B.C., since their posture is the typical Archaic stance, with the left foot forward. The bronze alloy is typical of that period. But the delicacy and realism of the detail and the elaboration of musculature suggest that the sculptors were already moving toward the exquisite modeling that became the glory of classical Greece in the age of Pericles...
Only a few stories have direct links to the past decade. Night March, by Tim O'Brien, is a solid bit of realism about a young soldier in Viet Nam from the author's award-winning novel, Going After Cacciato. John Sayles' I-80 Nebraska, M.490-M.205 is a mannered attempt to turn truckers and their CB jargon into folk legend: the headless horseman as Teamster. The most inventive topical piece is Guy Davenport's The Richard Nixon Freischutz Rag, a whimsical satire in which the former President makes small talk in China. Sample...
...demand for 100% purity of water. Now the streams you are turning that water into are not 100% pure, and in many instances the cost of getting up to 100% may be several times greater than the cost of getting to 95%. I think you have to have some realism about looking at something of that kind and saying wait a minute here...
...military are spent on muscle rather than frills and fat. Says Helmut Sonnenfeldt, who as an assistant to Henry Kissinger was an Administration colleague of Weinberger's: "I'd expect him to be very jaundiced on Defense spending without limit, to bring an air of realism and reason to the Defense budget process." Whichever opinion is correct, there is no doubt which client Lawyer Weinberger will be serving to the best of his ability: Ronald Reagan...