Word: realistically
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...same time, a general drift away from resolutely flat abstractions and a return to representational painting have revived notions of the picture as a window onto the illusion of a three-dimensional space. Says Painter Neil Jenney, who uses oversize frames to magnify his intentions as a realist: "Illusionistic painting demands a frame. It functions as a foreground. The frame is 'here,' with you; the illusion is 'there,' in the picture...
Calvino did not start his literary career as the Rod Serling of the novel. His first major work, The Path to the Nest of Spiders, was part of the Italian neo-realist movement that emerged from the wreckage of Fascist Italy. Two thirds of the stories in Difficult Loves comes from this period from...
Comparisons between Country and another American realist film, Places in the Heart, are perhaps inevitable. While both movies depict a family's struggle to hold on to its land in the face of greedy bureaucracy, Places uses this struggle as a tool to develop plot and character. Country, on the other hand, in its overly anxious attempt to convey a political message, fails to give any depth to its characters and leaves us mere ideology in the place...
Mondale will portray Ronald Reagan as an extremist and a flaky showman while casting himself as a seasoned, responsible realist. He accuses the President of trying to "flim-flam the American people" and "skate by the election" without confronting hard questions like the federal deficit. Mondale expects to introduce part of his own budget plan this month, possibly including a pledge that new tax revenues would be used to reduce the deficit, not fund social programs...
...anguish of that search lies the profundity of Rabe's work. The playwright is functioning here as far more than a realist with an unsurpassed ear for contemporary speech. What he is saying, finally, is that words have begun to fail. The vocabulary in which his people speak, a jargon derived from televised reductions of reality and popularized psychology, leaves them without the tools they need to know their own minds, let alone the complexities of their shared existence. The bitterest of the many laughs Rabe provides derives from his recognition that the relentless articulateness of his people...