Word: realistes
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NATHAN: Being a political realist, if I were in the Nixon Administration. I would be doing much more in terms of leverage-like selling off materials from the strategic stockpiles. Tariffs also present another possibility. Instead of moving toward the protective direction, which we seem to be doing, one might move a little bit in the opposite direction...
...artist who could resist the temptation to see things as they ought to be, rather than as they are, and that's Tom Eakins." Walt Whit man was one of the few people who had anything good to say about the cold-eyed and ruthlessly honest Philadelphia realist. Aside from the poet, whom Ea kins portrayed in 1888 as a twinkling old sage, few people could stand having their character laid bare with the visceral objectivity that Eakins brought to portraiture. He used his brush like a surgeon's scalpel, exposing old wounds, concealed ambitions, ill manners...
Even Paul Krassner, editor of the black-comic book the Realist, makes his broadside sound like a grudging salute: "Wayne is one of the floats from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade...
...making us forget about the basic story. Ford knows the attentions and moods of people change easily--that purpose can (even must) be put aside for brief periods of time in favor of diversion. Incorporating this, his films inherently have a dimension of staggering realism. But Ford is no realist, and that dimension is infused into a larger and more personal scheme, giving additional richness and validity to the drama and its characters...
MOVIE HISTORIANS call Erich von Stroheim a realist because of his attention to authentic detail. Stroheim rehearsed actors only less thoroughly than he designed sets and selected objects for them. But the most important element of his art is visual style, for its give us a sense that the objects and spaces he shows are real. Without this sense, all the correct detail in the world would be useless...