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...color." Indeed, this method works well. The combination of visual and literary elements had a phenomenal impact on me, as I found the painting to be particularly intriguing and expressive. The image of women drowning in a sea of inspired language is enrapturing and indicative of Stevens's trademark realism...

Author: By Angela Lin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Two Mother's Days Out at the MFA | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

...there more to McCain than his plainspoken realism in foreign affairs? To become the natural alternative to Bush, McCain will have to compete on domestic turf, and here his favorite issues have earned him more bruises than badges of honor. He's known mostly for his unsuccessful efforts to reform the nation's campaign-finance laws and to curtail teenage smoking, both of which infuriated party leaders and rankled many of McCain's colleagues. And the Senator's long battle against pork-barrel spending has earned him few friends on Capitol Hill. "I don't believe I'm going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: The McCain Moment | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...first and finest examples of the new realism that arose in American theater in the '70s, Mamet's play, if done correctly, can transport audiences away from the confines of even the stuffiest theater to the world of small-time Chicago crooks and coin-thieves. And, yes, it is a world. It has a landscape, a language and a code of honor all its own. It is a world where business and crime are synonyms, where friends equal family, and where loyalty is the highest ideal...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NICKEL and CRIME | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

...have any reason to think that the quality of my teaching had dropped, probably quite to the contrary," says Fanger, author of Dostoyevsky and Romantic Realism...

Author: By Jason M. Goins and Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: The Graying of theFaculty | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

...delusions about a war without casualties. If they choose to bomb a country they can't embrace bombing but shun ground warfare. If the U.S. is to fight it must immerse itself in warfare. Since it made the ominous step into battle, it must fight with the convictions and realism of a real...

Author: By Timothy E. Bazzle, | Title: War Means War in Kosovo | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

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