Word: realisms
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...Iran the way I want to see it in my lifetime. But so what?" she says, talking so fast she outpaces her own breath. The adult Satrapi, like the child in her book, is a beguiling character. She is adrift in earnestness one moment, and then alight with brutal realism the next. From a hotel room in Austin, Texas, she marvels at the open-mindedness of the Americans who have come to hear her on a promotional tour. Her biggest problem so far is caused by the smoking restrictions. In Iran, she learned that the more forbidden something...
...Israel's peace offer in 2000-01 not just "a tragedy" but "a crime"--he is the man who uses his power to make sure that no one else can make peace with Israel. By demanding new leadership, the Bush Administration was grounding future Middle East diplomacy in realism. Axiom A: Allowing Israel to fight the terrorism would reduce the terrorism. Axiom B: Shunning and thus diminishing Arafat would bring the first openings toward real peace. Both have proved true...
Elvis Mitchell’s New York Times review of Monsoon Wedding praised the realism of its hand-held camera work and Nair’s ability to turn the slightly clichéd plot into something beyond soap opera...
...will continue to give bursaries to art schools, and sponsored young artists will show their work in the County Hall Boiler Room, a former storeroom. But it looks as though he is sometimes weeding out unwanted works, purging his collection of movements that never traveled anywhere, like New Neurotic Realism. County Hall is already home to two hotels, the London Aquarium and the Dalí Universe - a museum dedicated to the works of the great Spanish surrealist - but the 3,700 sq m leased by the Saatchi Gallery had lain empty since 1988. Designed in 1907 in an overblown classical...
...dominated by nineteenth century realism, Craig introduced modular structures and movable screens to the theatrical stage...