Word: realism
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...mutual admirers. But Wyeth has been a favorite of Presidents from Eisenhower to Johnson, and John F. Kennedy picked him as the first painter to receive the Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian award. Wyeth is also popular with Middle Americans, partly because of his meticulous realism. But the somber, empty America that he depicts is a long way removed from the Chamber of Commerce optimism that is often (and mistakenly) assumed to be the sum total of Middle America's taste. Wyeth's America is often locked in a wintry cold, but even...
Characters turn into cardboard, plots funny in the telling become imbecile in the illustration. The secret of such lunatic comedy, as Stanley Kubrick understood so well in Dr. Strangelove, is to hold things down, to enhance the weirdness by emphasizing the basic realism of the situation. Two new movie adaptations practically stumble over themselves rushing in the opposite direction, with results that almost humiliate their original sources...
Gradually, the Hair people filter up onstage, and the show is beginning. Dionne and company begin singing Aquarius, and the tribe flies energetically into life. Never losing momentum, they transform the marvelously entertaining evening's mood intermittently into moments of intense realism that clevate the play from delightful musical into very serious social commentary...
...mines and the sunny green fields. But the effective in American film making is not without its drawbacks and so recalls the words of Lawrence Durrell's Pursewarden: "The effective in art is what rapes the emotion of your audience without nourishing its values." The trouble with most American "realism" in the cinema is that it is usually achieved by authenticity and powerful, clever devices rather than by suggestion...
Abrams conceded that the Independent had been losing funds at the rate of about $1000 a month, but he said the Independent's bid would "reflect financial realism...