Word: realistes
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Terry is a more standard-issue hero--strong, smart and caring--but Crowe gives him the burden of a wise realist. His hard-earned awareness of the world's wicked ways presses down on his sturdy shoulders and at the corners of his sensitive lips. Crowe displayed this moral weight in The Insider and Gladiator; it makes him the thinking man's grunt, and it grounds his can-this-be-love scene with Ryan. "Just tell me you know how much you mean to me," she says dewily. His reply shows a tough man's brusque vulnerability: "Then...
History flip-flopped. Al Gore got the popular vote, and Bush, for the moment, has the edge in Florida. "Jeb says George is going to win," said the former President after the vote, spirits up again, though the political realist in him had prepared earlier for the possibility of defeat. "There is life afterward, and George is very strong; he is very strong--and resilient. He will land on his feet in five minutes, but there will be hurt, deep hurt...
...History flip-flopped. Al Gore got the popular vote, and Bush, for the moment, has the edge in Florida. "Jeb says George is going to win," said the former President after the vote, spirits up again, though the political realist in him had prepared earlier for the possibility of defeat. "There is life afterward, and George is very strong; he is very strong - and resilient. He will land on his feet in five minutes, but there will be hurt, deep hurt...
...certain extent, this reluctance to attempt plays beyond the body of canonical Western realist drama can be related to a general lack of exposure to these works, or at least unfamiliarity with them, on the part of many undergraduates--a lack of exposure that reflects the appaling paucity of drama courses, especially literary drama courses, offered at our fair institution...
...fall on the other extreme of social normalization--i.e., "traditional" stagings and "traditional" plays are looked down upon. Such attitudes are every bit as confining as our own theatrical prejudices at Harvard, but they at least show that undergraduates are certainly capable of breaking out of the Western realist mode of theater...