Word: realism
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Their styles are many, ranging from the perceptive realism of Boris Chaliapin, Bernard Safran and Robert Vickrey through the intricate design of Boris Artzybasheff and the impressionistic dash of Henry Koerner to the pop of Andy Warhol...
...family that "adopted" him had redecorated the spare bedroom. Neighbors stopped in with cakes. Huntley-Brinkley televised him. Some will pin the word "naive" on Legson's wide-eyed good will and on America's cozy, corny reception of him. But there may be more basic human realism in this naivete than cynics either in the U.S. or in Africa would concede...
...most difficult part in the play is that of the cat mehitabel (Anne Bernstein), mehitabel is the kind of plucky creature whose realism and illusions are made of identical indestructible fiber. As surely as she recognizes that her guts will soon be fiddle strings, she believes that she was Cleopatra in a previous incarnation. She drowns her children, but in such a charming way. Miss Bernstein's mehitabel is so unambiguous that insights about her seem surprisingly unincisive, but still, her performance is good, for it is both believable and attractive...
Harlem has enough sadness for a hundred movies. Unfortunately Shirley Clarke has tried to make all of them in The Cool World. It is a confusing melange of believe-it-or-not realism, human interest, and Vicarious kicks...
Pursuing this social realism angle, Miss Clarke throws out little cliches of social criticism. Duke's mother gives a self-conscious declamation against government indifference, a busload of Harlem schoolboys is shown touring Wall Street, a college boy comes home unable to understand his junkie brother...