Word: everydayness
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...abstract idea, as in "I am weary of the world's gifts, the world's/ stipulated limits," she fails to illustrate adequately her points or make the reader feel them. Poor in images, her unsentimental poems are easily forgotten. Her form, occasionally (seemingly arbitrarily) rhyming, of dull everyday speech does little to enhance her words. Although she completely penetrates and bursts the peephole perspective of sexual resentment and idealistic angst, her from seems to lag behind. It is clear but uninspiring; perhaps beautiful but not in a way that fits. Allusive and chronically understated, her images betray a lingering strain...
...hold it up to my toothbrush to see." Longer than a toothbrush? "Yea." Bushbacher does not view his special feature as a personal accomplishment. He says humbly, "If I worked at it, if through hard work it got bigger--using The Pump everyday--then I'd be 'the Man.' But it's natural--just luck...
...simply attracted to sensationalist material. I'm addicted to a reported spectacle. I'm really interested in writing about violence but I'm not violent in my everyday life. But I'm very squeamish and I wince a lot when I see syringes go into arms or scenes that are too bloody. But in my fictional world I am addicted to violence. I am into it. And I'm also interested in bisexuality [there is] a lot in my fiction, but it doesn't mean that I'm bisexual or that I have some sort of bisexual tendencies right...
...blames theft, but says the amount involvedin this case could not have occurred throughsimple everyday theft, even if it were as seriousas that at Grolier...
...course is so popular that it is nearly sold out. Miller points to a need at Harvard for classes on everyday necessities like cooking...