Word: everyday
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...society. Levine is understandably vague about this change in the audiences for cultural events. "There is no precise date, but everywhere in the United States during the final decades of the 19th century the same transformation was evidently taking place; Shakespeare was being divorced from the broader world of everyday culture." Vague or not, it is precisely this transformation--not the cultural history in and of itself--that is the subject of the book...
...killed off most of the people that made this country interesting to begin with." But Lonesome Dove is surprisingly nonrevisionist in its picture of the West. The good guys still perform stunning heroics with six- shooters, and Indians are faceless villains who whoop when they ride. Yet in its everyday details -- the dust and the spit, the casual conversations about whoring, the pain of a man getting a mesquite thorn removed from his thumb -- this may be the most vividly rendered old West in TV history...
...launched all his plays. In that production, the work seemed an intriguing but unpolished amalgam of kitchen-sink realism (there is literally one onstage) and window-rattling, curtain-swirling supernaturalism. Not much of the actual text has changed. But at the Goodman the play confidently shuttles spectators between the everyday present and the ghostly remnants of the past, until ultimately the two worlds collide. The first glimpse of the spookily poetic comes before a word is spoken, when a shaft of white light illumines the piano, which by itself plays an eerily cheerful...
...butter, are scarcer than ever this year. In the Russian Republic, the Soviet region that is home to about half the country's population, meat available at state stores is so scarce that 1 out of every 3 consumers obtains a ration card to ensure a supply. Now, however, everyday items like good shoes and toilet paper are also missing from the shelves. Shoppers in Moscow are queuing for laundry detergent, and last week the capital was virtually bereft of gasoline...
...have turned those games in Dallas' favor. While I don't have anything against Steve Pelluer or his family, he is a good back-up quarterback. The key word is "backup." Pelluer is like a substitute teacher--you're glad to have him--but you wouldn't want him everyday...