Word: realisms
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...Bush who seemed like the fidgety usurper. But style reflects substance. It's Bush who has radically recast the G.O.P. as a Big Government, religiously motivated tool for transforming the world. Kerry has merely campaigned on a return to Clinton-era centrism in domestic policy and old-Republican realism in foreign policy...
Given the current strains on U.S. resources and manpower, Kerry's hardheaded realism seems sensible for the times. His advisers say he would insist on policies grounded in facts rather than ideological goals. In Kerry's view, Bush's belief in the inevitability of freedom's triumph has become a hazard, blinding him to the harsh reality of the country's predicament in Iraq. "This is the critical issue that goes back to his experiences in Vietnam," says Winer. "Respect for the facts is critical. Kerry's approach is fact based. President Bush's is faith based...
...expert was also remembering, with anger and nostalgia, an era that started with Pearl Harbor and ended with the Tonkin Gulf Resolution of 1964, when strategic thinking in the priestly realms of foreign and economic policy was unpolluted by short-term partisan politics, when words like intellectual and realism and, yes, global weren't terms of opprobrium. This Administration has presided over the culmination of a trend that has been a long time building: the triumph of politics and populist anti-intellectualism over policy...
...when it comes to the ever-thinning and widening lapel of realism in film, the answer is Payne...
Payne applies his brand of direct, specific realism to both wine and filmmaking, and the two collided when he gave his Sideways propmaster instructions to make fake wine that looked like the real varietals. Though the Pinot looked like Pinot, it meant disgusting concoctions like prune and cranberry juice. "The actors rebelled," Payne says. "After a few takes, they said, 'Can you just give us the real stuff...