Word: realism
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...Realism. The need for drastic economic change became painfully evident in the mid-1950s, when Stalinist-tailored war economies - with their stress on heavy industry to the exclusion of consumer desires - began to cause widespread discontent. Yugoslavia was the first to move, after its break with the Kremlin in 1948, introducing a system of decentralized planning and establish ing "workers' councils" as co-managers of its factories. In 1956, Poland's "bread and freedom" riots in Poznan triggered reforms that - on paper, at least - far outdistanced Yugoslavia...
Thus far, this untidy thriller proceeds without a serious flaw. Working slowly into the nightmare realism of David Ely's novel, Director John Frankenheimer and Veteran Photographer James Wong Howe manage to give the most improbable doings a look of credible horror. Once Rock appears, though, the spell is shattered, and through no fault of his own. Instead of honestly exploring the ordeal of assuming a second identity, the script subsides for nearly an hour into conventional Hollywood fantasy...
...most superficial aspects. The book drifts in two unsynchronized directions. One leads past Jimmy Kinsella, a second-generation Irish Croesus who has prodded his youngest son Charles into the Governor's mansion and then sits by, fulminating helplessly, as the family splits over the hoariest of issues: political realism v. political idealism. O'Connor's solution is resourceless and unbelievable: Governor Charles, the realist, has his brother Phil, the idealist, committed to an insane asylum. The story is narrated by Jimmy's nephew, Jack Kinsella, who supplies the book's other direction. Jack...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, are being put on exhibition. Part of a ten-work cycle portraying scenes from Roman history,*they were painted for the Ca' Dolfin in Venice some time be tween 1725 and 1730, when Tiepolo was barely 30 years old. Standing between the gloomy realism of his earliest canvases and the lyrical idealism that made his later ceilings look like heaven itself, the paintings help explain Tiepolo's immediate success...
...style and treatment in the presentation of cover subjects. In the past year we have used the works of twelve different artists on the cover. This week we introduce another: Iowa-born, Connecticut-dwelling Robert Templeton. A painter who is not offended if a viewer remarks that his realism has a pop quality, Templeton divided the picture of Los Angeles into separate images: the freeway ("a poetic thing to see"), crime in the streets (Mrs. Templeton posed for that panel), Watts, the ever-present signs, and the area's cultural emergence as represented by the Los Angeles County...