Word: everydayness
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...winding, convoluted pathways. Unfamiliar in unexpected ways, it reveals the obsessive and overwrought patterns of human activity in all their inscrutable complexity. Too bad that, in the last weightless moments before touchdown, the city metamorphoses into something more pedestrian--disappearing, finally, into the invisibility with which we cloak the everyday. Up close, we see nothing...
...start as a humble sign-painter in the '60s, while Gursky is a much younger, German-born photographer--the two engage with at times startlingly similar themes. In his images of endless hotel interiors, meticulously arranged 99-cent stores and cold Prada showrooms, Gursky, like Ruscha, presents everyday structures as pure expressions both of the human and something more than human--as if to point out that in such places humanity will be memorialized, but also outlasted, superceded...
...complexity of their construction. Their pursuits of love and redemption are echoed plaintively in the music of Aimee Mann, which is interwoven throughout the film and which, in one disarmingly effective scene, assumes a lead role. But the music, too, is simply a bittersweet tribute to modern and everyday insecurities; it's as if Anderson feels so intensely what it is to be alive today that he can't help but burst into song. Which is ultimately what Magnolia proves to be: a lyrical paean to the horrible-beautiful process of living. It's an epic...
...their nemesis fading into the background - to that he just wants to spend more time with the wife and kids. Gates says he simply wants to focus on developing software, because that's where he thinks the big bucks will be as the Internet moves beyond our PCs into everyday gadgets, from pens to coffee makers to car stereos. "At the end of the day you're thinking, thinking, thinking about how the different pieces of the company come together," Gates said, reasoning that the day-to-day operations have hindered his ability to oversee the change in emphasis from...
Like the much-over-hyped Y2K crisis, Boris N. Yeltsin stepped down from the Russian presidency on the last day of 1999 not with a bang, but with a whimper. In a tearful address, Yeltsin apologized to the Russian people for the continued hardships of everyday life across the country, despite his repeated promises to cure Russia's woes. Yeltsin's parting words were a far cry from his defiant stance against a communist coup in August 1991, when he memorably leapt on a tank. While this time Yeltsin stole the New Year's thunder, he did the mature thing...