Word: realism
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Long experience in ecumenical affairs has given Visser't Hooft both hope for the church's continued renewal and a realism concerning the difficulties involved. he becomes excited at the possibility of spiritual renewal when churches examine themselves in the "ecumenical encounter." "Once the churches take each other seriously, once they see each other as Christians," says the Protestant leader, "there is hope that they will be liberated from the captivity of their own provincialisms...
...Affair of the Skin just misses being a first-class parody of the foreign art films that inspired it. Purporting to show "the realism of grownup, contemporary sex" in America-not in England or France or Italy-Producer-Writer-Director Ben Maddow (The Savage Eye) serves up a mannered little pastiche of urban infidelities that is pure counterfeit. Husband Kevin McCarthy can't stand shrewish Wife Lee Grant, so he takes up with Model Viveca Lindfors, who is the mistress of his best friend Herbert Berghof. Rounding out the quintet, for no discernible reason except to exploit interracial dalliance...
That's the art part, not the realism. Because art is weird dialogue. Art is shooting scenes through leafy boughs or stark bare branches. Art is two people bare-shouldering each other around on a bed. And realism is dingy. Dingy slums, dingy parties, dingy cuss words...
...that Burbage was good last night as Hamlet and why." Using textual and stage notes, Seltzer must infer what the Elizabethans felt was real in terms of acting. "Every age thinks its own are is real. But obviously the Globe player differs from the method actor. The ideal of realism begins in the mind of the artist. It's the old idea of imitating nature...
Played with fire and ice by Kirk Douglas and Joan Tetzel, Cuckoo's Nest is implausible, if scarifying, viewed as realism. Wasserman intends the insane asylum as a metaphor for the world. But instead of cracking sick jokes, he ought to have tried for outright theater-of-the-absurd. The play gains in tension what it loses in triteness by linking Nurse Ratched's oppression of the patients to her sexual repression of herself...