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...with America 1976. A million postcards have been there before, and the landscape is vicariously familiar. Much of the show appears to have been painted from photographs, whether it was or not, for this is now the natural "look" of most American realism. If the exhibition is littered with homefried parodies of an earlier sublimity, it is because many of the artists could find only a conventional way of producing an "official" heroic landscape. Despite Art Historian Robert Rosenblum's benevolent claim in the catalogue that "in most of these works, the mood is one of exhilarating adventure...
...budget Hindi hits, but it is Calcutta that has earned for India most of its international cinematic acclaim. That is mainly because of Satyajit Ray. Using Calcutta's swirling misery as a background for his low-budget masterpieces, Director Ray depicts Indian life with poignant realism. His famous trilogy, Song of the Road, The Unvanquished, and The World of Apu, has been applauded at film festivals all over the world, as has his more recent Distant Thunder. But Ray's movies are not popular in India. His new release, Jana Aranya, opened unheralded this spring in three obscure...
...counting chickens even when you're sure they're hatched, Cornell's vociferous rooting section received that lesson in the fourth quarter by a jarring dose of Planetary Realism. After French & Company had roared back to take the lead 12-11 with :06 on the clock, a long line of Ithaca's finest waited along the edge of the field, chanting "We're Number...
Similar developments took place elsewhere in Italy. Using a combination of Christian moral ideals and political realism, the party shepherded the country through a long period of tricky and often wrenching social change, while managing to maintain social peace. Says Rome University Sociologist Franco Ferrarotti, a former "independent left" Deputy: "If I were a Christian Democrat, I would point out the undeniable facts of recent history-'We took in our arms a country with homes destroyed, with streets in the air, with unemployment between 6 million and 7 million -the worst in Europe, and perhaps in the world. Then...
Stanley Elkin is one of the perennial bridesmaids of American fiction. Part of the problem is that the styles Elkin employs are beginning to show their age. His prose is creased by the crow's-feet of '50s black humor, it shows the slight stoop of Jewish realism and the weird droop of the surreal as well. There is no denying, though, that when Elkin puts them together-as he did in Boswell, A Bad Man, The Dick Gibson Show and now The Franchiser-the results are fresh...