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...Guernica by German and Italian squadrons during the Spanish Civil War. As a modern historical painting, it draws on archetypal images such as bulls, horses, and melancholy women—particularly Spanish themes but nevertheless universal. These images, fragmented and pained, startlingly convey the horrific bombing without resorting to realist or romantic terms. The painting’s stark absence of color is equally impressive. Painted solely in shades of black and white, the images employ symbolic and graphic punch while vibrating with intense expression. To a contemporary audience acquainted with black-and-white newspapers and film, the colorless palette...
...chronicle of false starts, wrong turnings, jobs he did not get, jobs he regretted taking. Schneider alludes too briefly to two fundamental debates: between devotees of an external, technical approach to acting and believers in the Actors Studio "method" of fusing a character with one's own psyche; between "realist" writers who seek to simulate life and "theatricalists" who emphasize that they are staging an artifice, a show. He unflatteringly evokes such figures as Walter Kerr and Mary Martin, and demonstrates by his own example that success in the theater is neither enduring nor necessarily lucrative...
...season, at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, the Pittsburgh Steelers lost their 13th straight game for Rookie Coach Chuck Noll, who predicted a few of them "would soon be getting on with their life's work." Immediately Ray Mansfield, 44, a center and therefore a realist, started selling life insurance on the side. "We never have that one extreme moment of football glory," he says, "so offensive linemen are less afraid of living on." They receive on-the-job training in anonymity. A gathering of the heftiest Steelers watched the Super Bowl together that year, and at one point Mansfield...
...just as turn-of-the-century realist social literature had its Joyces and Faulkners to smash the illusion of representation with their shapeshifting prose, and the fiery politicized strains of the Dead Kennedys’ “Fresh Fruit for Rotting...
...Eliot Street, there is plenty to admire in the well-furnished lobby. One painting––and its planning sketch––offers a chance to reflect on the connection between art and Harvard Square while simultaneously taking in the energy of the realist depiction...