Word: realism
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...original state but had been overpainted, probably in the 19th Century, to cover up parts of costumes shocking to Victorians, but common in the 16th Century . . . The restoration of the picture to its original state was appreciated by all who admire Bruegel's realism and detail...
Lima, Ohio (pop. 49,880) was all set this week for a realistic air-raid test. Twenty-five cops were ready to explode black powder bombs all around the city, ambulances were standing by, and civil-defense workers were waiting to care for the injured. Then the realism got too thick. A bomb exploded prematurely, fatally injuring a policeman. Then another bomb went off ahead of time, and another cop was hurt. An ambulance screaming out on a make-believe run crashed into two cars, sending six victims to the hospital. Because of a mixup, no civil-defense workers were...
Miracle in Milan (De Sica; Joseph Burstyn) is the freshest movie in years, a brilliant departure by Producer-Director Vittorio De Sica from the tragic realism of Italy's best postwar films, including his own Shoeshine and The Bicycle Thief. Still deeply concerned with man's inhumanity to man, De Sica this time accents the positive ideal of human brotherhood in a warm,exhilarating, richly comic picture...
Modern producers if an Ibsen play are always faced with the problem that audiences are not likely to be impressed with Ibsen's now largely academic importance. His attack on romanticism and development of realism are now matters of theatrical history. The social commentary in his plays, in this case a defense of feminism, is no longer particularly controversial...
...times confusing. Director Daniel Mann does admirably with a script which calls only for various levels of emotional acting. It is unfortunate that a playwright of Tennessee Williams' stature should confine himself to one aspect of life so exclusively that he fails to achieve even a semblance of true realism...