Word: realism
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...There will remain a hard core of hi-fi fans who will continue to ignore stereo. For one thing, stereo in all its forms is still more expensive than comparable monaural sound. For another, critics complain that stereo speaks with forked tongue. Despite claims that it delivers concert-hall realism, it is really mechanical realism. "We do not hear live performances 'stereophonically,'" says Composer Igor Stravinsky. "Whereas the angle formed by a live orchestra and our two ears is about six inches, the angle at which the stereo microphone hears the same orchestra for us is sometimes...
...Christ must have been," says Painter Hall, a Moslem. "It's a little grotesque to some people, I guess, but it's real. We knew it wouldn't be a pretty thing, but a person being crucified wouldn't be pretty." Extra touches of realism: dirty toenails (from walking barefoot through the dust) and a dozen or so flies, bought by Father Breitfeller at a novelty store. "Some like that touch and some don't," he reports...
...Tough Realism. Chief Schrotel set about remaking Cincinnati's white-hatted police force with an approach that was-and still is-tough and realistic. "The reins," he says, "are real tight." Overweight cops are suspended by Schrotel, himself a trim handballer. Men who show up in sloppy uniforms risk being sent home-and docked a day's pay. Schrotel lost his fight in the city council against moonlighting by his men, but did get approval of his strict code for outside work, including the requirement that the pay be at least $3 an hour...
...conversions back to the days of early cubism and Russian constructivism. Even six years of Nazi occupation failed to eradicate it; a 1945 victory exhibition in Cracow abounded in fantastic expressionist and nonobjective canvases. Though this first frantic flowering was followed by a wintery decade of tough Stalinist socialist realism, Polish painters worked in secret. "For the mass of the people, the stumbling block between themselves and the regime was their Catholicism," a recent U.S. visitor noted. "For the intellectual, it was abstract...
...still concerns himself with peasants and is old-guard; in Rocco he has reverently revived the techniques he and such directors as Rossellini (Open City) and De Sica (The Bicycle Thief) used in the 1940's. Rocco keeps all the bench marks of Italian neo-realism-the urine-streaked tenement walls, the fields full of rubble, the endless squawk of language ("Ecco! Ecco! Basta! Basta!"). And flaring fitfully in the three-hour brawl of exposed frames that Visconti could not bring himself to edit, there is also some of the power of the postwar masterpieces...