Word: realism
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...Angeles Mirror, decided to create a hard-hitting television program that, he says, would do the things "a newspaperman can do on television. I had written some scripts for Dragnet . . . The greatest attraction there is stark reality in dialogue and faces. I wanted to do a show with real realism. As part of my job on the Mirror, I see the petty hoodlums, prostitutes, homosexuals, unwed mothers, people victimized by racket. Television had not explored this area, and I decided...
...cooled, the detective was poking into as sordid a mess as hardened mystery addicts could reasonably ask for. Macdonald's blend of sex and sadism includes marijuana, incest and adultery. That the mixture stops well this side of disgust is a tribute to his nice sense of realism, an adult way of conveying that life is sometimes like this, but no need to leer...
...high up. If you're training men who are going to be fighting at 80,000 ft., you might as well send them to school at 6,000 ft." The final obstacle-the lack of college girls-was brushed aside by a high Air Force officer with more realism than humility. "When we open," he said, "somebody will see the wisdom of starting a girls' college...
...general, the show boxed the compass under the four strong winds of realism, expressionism, surrealism and abstractionism. All summer there will be muttering in a dozen tongues about the jury's verdicts, for the Venice Biennale is nothing if not controversial; it attempts nothing less than a summing up of art now. And today's art, as the Biennale proves, has neither a dominant style nor authoritative quality...
...sculptured slab, 6 ft. 5½ in. by 2 ft. 3 in., showing the dead Christ laid out on a rough, shrouded bier awaiting entombment. In the tragic dignity of the recumbent figure and in the calm anguish of the face, the sculptor had achieved a work of striking realism; the body lies alone with none to mourn it, and the effect is one of infinite loneliness. Art experts called the statue a first-rate example of Renaissance sculpture, and archaeologists pronounced it "one of the major archaeological finds made in London during this century...