Word: realism
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Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman is still marvelous, at the Brattle. The Light Brigade arrives Sunday. Lust for Life lives up to its title at the UT. Through Saturday. In Town, The Bachelor Party is realism, if you like that sort of stuff. At the Kenmore, shows at 6:24 p.m., 8:12 p.m., and 10 p.m. Around the World in 80 Days is Michael Todd's. The seats are reserved and the Saxon...
...English at Oregon State College, is now in Rome on a fellowship working on his third novel. He writes out of his own experience (his father was a New York grocer). In The Assistant, Malamud brings to his story of the poor not only pity without sentimentality and realism without bad taste; he gives their humblest acts a kind of foreboding excitement that can only spring from a conviction that they-the poor and the meek-will inherit the earth...
...photography is done in the best Italian neo-realism style, with many close-ups, little camera movement, and with nearly every scene, from subways to bars, shot on location. Script-writer Chayefsky's ear for conspicuously natural speech is better than ever...
...echo organ and at the apex of a concrete parabolic arch that springs from the ground and spans the nave. In the great tradition of Byzantine religious art, the figure is elongated and primitively covered with a boxlike drape. But the head, feet and hands are done with expressive realism, the head forceful, the chin raised with authority and grandeur, the hands held out in eloquent plea and promise, the feet slightly dragging as if in pain, a reminder of the tragedy implicit in the dramatic origins of Christianity...
...music had been destroyed long before by the din of dialectical crossfire. Zhdanov in effect put all Russian composers on trial, including the three modern giants-Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitry Shostakovich and Aram Khachaturian. The charges: "formalism" (i.e., art for art's sake, individuality, experimentation) and lack of "socialist realism...