Word: realistic
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Ronald Reagan acted differently. He recognized that the deficit was a growing problem, but had the judgment to realize that it was a problem of spending, not of revenue. Reagan, a realist, knew that Congress members--whose main goals were re-election--would resist any spending cuts the administration proposed...
Only in Britain is this Danish-British painter known, and only there is his influence felt. As a modern Realist, he energized younger British Modernists in the 1900s like Spencer Frederick Gore and Harold Gilman. You can still see his mark today, on the work of figurative artists like Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach and even Francis Bacon. Sickert's "brown world" of rented rooms in Camden Town, with their plump, sweaty nudes, sprawled on iron bedsteads, dense and claustrophobic, runs into the younger painters', its solidly constructed Realism forming a bridge across the light turbulence of derivative avant- gardism...
Other contemporaries, such as Guido Reni and Annibale Carracci, affected him deeply as well; he had worked on their turf, in Parma, before coming to Rome. It was, however, Caravaggio, the tragic realist, with his dramatically articulate figures sculpted by darkness, his appetite for common life and his candor about the apprehensible world, who had blown away the mincing academism of late mannerist art and shown the way forward to a whole generation of younger European painters, of whom Ribera was the most gifted...
...reliable rule of statecraft that it is hard to win at the bargaining table what you are unable or unwilling to win on the battlefield. Henry Kissinger, a cold-eyed realist and practitioner of power politics, knew this well. During the four years that he negotiated America's exit from Vietnam, he regularly resisted those people -- ranging from Defense Secretary Melvin Laird to the doves in the Senate -- who wanted to speed up troop withdrawals and, in Kissinger's view, undercut U.S. leverage at the Paris peace talks. And after the peace accord was signed in January 1973, he repeatedly...
...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...