Word: realisms
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Bradley has a certain talent for descriptive lists and characterization, but his experience hasn't supplied the vocabulary for his mature vision. Two distinct styles of writing fall out in this loose weave of narrative and analytic musing; one of sardonic realism and another of patriotic camp. On one page, he describes Willis Reed pondering "how a rabbit does it," and on the following, he sums up the 1973 championship with the old saw, "Vicariously experiencing the victory can't compare to being Number One." The maudlin cliches of the sports world are not geared toward the cynicism implicit...
...strong popular support for the new policy. Recent polls suggest that as much as 70% of the country backs tax relief in return for stringent pay restraint. Even the Tories approved; Sir Geoffrey Howe, the Conservatives' shadow Chancellor, admitted that the plan reflected "a greater sense of realism...
POLITICAL statements in the form of social realism sometimes tend toward the heavy-handed; once made, the author's point is frequently pounded into the audience until the art form loses any claim to verisimilitude. In an effort to avoid this trap--and Stalin's censors, since The Dragon was written in the Soviet Union in 1943--Yevgeny Schwarz has turned to allegory, drawing on the Russian folk tradition to disguise a commentary on his country. Dragons, heroes, talking animals and flying carpets people his work, giving his play an outward simplicity that underlines his final statement...
Travers, a pint-size, cigarette-smoking Falstaff, attributes his personal revival largely to a liberalizing of English society. He much admires the realism of the new generation of English playwrights, such as John Osborne and David Storey. Indeed, he tried his comeback because he feels "there is something to be said now which I've never been allowed to say in the past." The younger dramatists had cleared the way by campaigning against the official stage censor, a punctilious guardian of manners and language for the starchy upper-crust audience that had so inhibited English theater. (In the 1940s...
Died. Paul Strand, 85, American photographer who created "candid camera," or unposed photographs, by attaching a brass lens to the side of his camera and working at right angles to fool his unsuspecting subject; in Orgeval, France. Strand broke with the soft-focus romantic tradition, aiming instead at social realism and commitment. His series of still lifes of New England, the Maine coast and Western towns, as well as such famous photographs as the Blind Woman and The Family, attest to his goal of seeing "something outside myself -always. I'm not trying," he explained, "to describe an inner...