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WITH HIS BITTER PRESCRIPTION FOR ELIMINATING THE FEDERAL DEFICIT BY 1998, Ross Perot likes to style himself as the straight-talking realist of American politics. Perot was at it again last week, appearing on the Today show to chide the presidential candidates for failing to tackle the deficit, and hinting anew that he would jump back into the race unless they faced the issues...
...next 40 years. Matt Dillon is perfecting a comic shagginess. Funny Jeremy Piven steals a scene at a check-out counter. The other actors in SINGLES are stuck with playing cliches -- twentynothings. They mate, they muse, they inhabit soap-opera plots. Meet urban planner Campbell Scott ("a realist slash dreamer"), Greenpeacenik Kyra Sedgwick ("This whole decade is going to have to be about cleaning up"), maitre d' Jim True ("I live my life like a French movie"). Writer-director Cameron Crowe's movie lives like too many others. Singles may aspire to be a Big Chill from Seattle...
Bellows studied at the New York School of Art under Robert Henri, the American realist disciple of Frans Hals and Edouard Manet. "My life begins at this point," he said of his apprenticeship to Henri. He soon developed a tough, pragmatic repertoire based on realist drawing and tonal composition. He was by far the most gifted younger member of the Ashcan School, a loose group that included John Sloan, George Luks and William Glackens. Not one of them ever painted an ash can, but they did believe, in a general way, that the artist should work from life...
...they were rewarded. The bounce was theirs, the biggest in 50 years. But the Candidate has been a front runner before, and he fully expects to be playing catch-up again. So he smiled and went along and shared in the wonder -- but the Candidate is a realist and he knows it. So he said, quietly and almost to himself, "It won't be easy. Bush is wrong about most things, but he was right when he said this is a weird year...
...astuteness, however. She is an intellectual, yes, and a realist. But as an old colleague notes, she has a mulish streak. "She can idealize the causes she's involved in just because they are hers," he observes. "All her geese are swans." Digging in too hard, even falling prey to fixations, has cost her some court decisions in the past. "A stubborn girl is our Mary," laughs Rogers...