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...just as turn-of-the-century realist social literature had its Joyces and Faulkners to smash the illusion of representation with their shapeshifting prose, and the fiery politicized strains of the Dead Kennedys’ “Fresh Fruit for Rotting...
While I advocate self-reliance, I’m also a realist. So, if a random hook-up provides a suitable distraction, go for it. Just watch out for the confusion that might follow. Post-hookup is when guys tend to get vague. Do they want to hook up again? Unclear. Do they want to court you? Unclear. Are they straight? Unclear...
...were a liberal, but a realist, and, having finished both lunches with the party chairmen, you stopped to think about the contrast—Warren Buffett for the Republicans and Al Roker for the Democrats—wouldn’t you be worried...
...April 10 at 59, began his mission rather unpromisingly: after graduating from Shanghai's premier art institute in 1965, he spent a decade monotonously painting propaganda art and portraits of Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution. But after migrating to the U.S. in 1982, Chen found his hyper-realist paintings of pastoral scenes and flute-playing maidens a hit with foreign collectors, who snapped up the oils for as much as a quarter of a million dollars each-making Chen the highest-earning mainland-born artist at the time...
...greets Wagener in a red dressing gown and scarlet slippers with turned-up toes. To anyone familiar with office politics, this is a calculated rudeness. Wagener does not seem to get the message. Ever the intellectual snob, he sees Göring as a mental patient rather than a shrewd realist who knows the difference between theatricality and self-delusion...