Word: realist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cynic would argue that this is proof that money is more important than democracy; an idealist that we simply value voting too much to let it denigrate into another keyboard command on the computer; a realist would say Americans are simply technological morons...
...hundreds of color photographs of human genitalia, he, she, he, she, ranging widely in age and size. It scored a palpable hit on the G-spot of the Italian press, partly because its author, Oliviero Toscani, does the advertising photos for Benetton. Despite Toscani's stance as a fearless realist, this Don Giovanni's catalog in Cibachrome is aesthetically inert, and after five minutes about as shocking as a mural of human elbows might be. Nevertheless, it wins (hairs-down, as it were) over Gianfranco Gorgoni's similar photomural in the Italian pavilion, which shows only women's genitals...
...political realist would argue that Clinton had no choice but to oscillate rightward of the political center. He was elected by a mere 43% of the voting public, hardly a mandate for sweeping change in any direction. Once he was in office, Perot and Dole attached themselves to his ankles with the tenacity of rabid terriers. Plus there's the sad fact that underdogs, numerous as they are, tend not to make big campaign contributions, certainly not compared with bankers and lawyers and CEOs...
...they satisfy McNally, who mixes didacticism into his realist story to make for an unholy cocktail. He winds up with a diffuse, inarticulate bundle of ideas, but his agenda is obvious throughout. The dedication betrays his inflated vision of the word. "To the living." He wants to make sweeping statements, to express the human condition. To this end, he stuffs ponderous, unwieldy philosophical proclamations into the mouths of his characters. Jenna, the swimming coach who thinks that her pornographic part prompted the suicides, tells herself. "In the beginning was the word, and the word was made flesh, and once passion...
...Before Bill was an actor, he already was who he is. He's laid back. He's a realist but not necessarily a cynic. He's witty, tending toward irony. He's like a nasty Jimmy Stewart. He's a hero for our generation, because he talks the talk of our generation but embodies the classic American-hero myths. Working with Bill this time was simply helping him honor things I know are there -- tenderness, genuine concern for others, a kind of goodness without too much irony -- but that he wasn't ready to risk showing to people before...