Word: realists
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...Most Singaporean novels, typically small-scale affairs about middle-class angst, would stop there. Lau is far more ambitious. In a magical realist style drawn from M?rquez, she weaves together an incredible range of historical and literary material, including Chinese myths, Singaporean folktales, the Cultural Revolution, Catholic theology and French existentialism. In this intellectually challenging tapestry are allusions to Borges meshed with Chinese opera, and characters who ride on tiger-shaped clouds mixed up with scholars who discuss Milan Kundera. If the new Asia defines itself by a creative fusion of Eastern and Western influences, then readers may find...
...spoils of victory would be distributed. To have a hand in the postwar reorganization of Iraq also explains Britain's judiciously rationed support for an attack. Tony Blair is not George W.'s "poodle," as his domestic critics are wont to ridicule him; he is a hard-nosed realist who is already thinking about an Iraq minus Saddam...
...says it had been suggested by the 1949 Italian neo-realist near-classic "Bitter Rice" - or, more precisely, by the sultry, skirt-hiking image of Silvana Mangano, who made the movie an international hit. "Lorna" had closer affinities to "Tobacco Road" and "God's Little Acre," Erskine Caldwell's novels of the dirt-poor, lubricious South, where the men are mean and the women are willin', where everyone quotes the Bible and nobody follows its Commandments. There isn't much skin in the movie, just a midnight bath in the old crick, but what's there is cherce; for Meyer...
...20th century American artist Edward Hopper, whose most iconic canvas is Nighthawks (1942). Stuart Free, who graduated from London's Central St. Martins art school in 1994, has painted 360 pictures of north London, which sell steadily through a local gallery. He doesn't mind being called an "urban realist," but doesn't know what he'd call himself: "In a way I'd rather just get on with it and call it something afterwards." In Westway he depicts a scene under a motorway, the curve of the road cutting off a generic blue sky. On the nearest strut...
...children down. Grownups are just bigger, more disappointing versions of their kids, and parental supervision is nothing more than a distant rumor. However, where American Psycho, or for that matter Coin Locker Babies, retreated to the more comfortable perspective of satire, Gold Rush is bracingly and clinically realist...