Word: everydayness
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...chief method of persuasion is to make the banal better so that people notice design more. He likes creating expensive furniture and perfume bottles just fine, but what really gets his juices going is the everyday: manhole covers, a cremation urn, disposable cigarette lighters, garbage bins, salt and pepper shakers, plastic pens. "I want American Standard to come to me to do the toilets for Home Depot," he says...
...between the rich and poor, the cult of wealth and competition in which the signal is given that almost anything is permitted in the race for the fast buck. In the absence as yet of any alternative perspective of collective struggle and human solidarity, individual 'success' is everything and everyday life becomes increasingly brutalized...
...Conn. Petite in stature but possessed of outsize energy, Coca won an Emmy in 1952 for her subtly satirical performance on the show, which aired live for 90 minutes on Saturday nights and during which Coca and Caesar, without the aid of cue cards, acted out skits lampooning marriage, everyday life and popular culture...
Bono placed a particular emphasis on the "everyday holocaust that is Africa," which he described as "the biggest health threat since the bubonic plague wiped out one-third of Europe...
...Harvard will only get better next season. The Crimson returns five seniors. Broughton and Magyera will serve as next season's co-captains, while Naqushbandi, McGinty, and Timoney will all play in the everyday lineup...