Word: realist
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Snowfalls & Souls. Wyeth, the apparent realist, at 49 paints a world of his own. In a sense, it is a nostalgic world...
CRAZY QUILT. When a realist and a romantic join in holy matrimony, the union is likely to be stormy and unpredictable. In this almost perfect little film, a husband and wife (Tom Resqui and Ina Mela) spend ten uncompromising years together before learning to cherish their differences...
CRAZY QUILT. When a realist and a romantic join in holy matrimony, the union is likely to be stormy and unpredictable. In this almost perfect little film, a husband and wife (Tom Rosqui and Ina Mela) spend ten uncompromising years together before learning to cherish their differences...
...generation Irish Croesus who has prodded his youngest son Charles into the Governor's mansion and then sits by, fulminating helplessly, as the family splits over the hoariest of issues: political realism v. political idealism. O'Connor's solution is resourceless and unbelievable: Governor Charles, the realist, has his brother Phil, the idealist, committed to an insane asylum. The story is narrated by Jimmy's nephew, Jack Kinsella, who supplies the book's other direction. Jack's wife Jean has run off to Europe with a cad, but later returns to his side. Reunited...
Crazy Quilt. Henry (Tom Rosqui) is a realist. "He knows," says the narrator (Burgess Meredith), "that God is dead, that innocence is a fraud and guilt a disease, happiness a myth and despair a pose. And that vice is no more interesting than virtue." Henry works as a termite exterminator and looks like a large unshaven blur. Lorabelle (Ina Mela) is an idealist. "She believes in everything. In Providence and butterflies, romance and statuary." She plays all day long, sniffing flowers and feeding ducks, and looks like the dew on the wings of a wish...