Word: everydayness
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Aaron Landry '99-'00 said part of his gaming enjoyment stems from the "power trip" of seeing himself as "cryptic and distantly ingenious" when he designs and oversees the fantasy worlds of a given game. In contrast, he said everyday life is a let-down...
...part of a generation of Haitian artists to be influenced by the Centre d' Arte, which was founded in 1944. As The Art of Haiti webpage explains, the founders of the Centre d'Arte" were completely artistically untrained....Their subjects were most often what they perceived in their everyday mundane existence....They managed to integrate what they saw, felt and believed and express it with intensity of emotion and a childlike innocence...
...sexual bravado of mainstream rock. The band's lyrics are often deliberately remote, seeking to capture, through abstract imagery, the wildness of adolescence, the plight of junkies and losers, and the social frustrations that come with gender barriers. Sonic Youth's members present themselves not as saviors but as everyday sorts who happen to have instruments...
Even in an era where horrific violence seems an everyday occurrence, last year's story of Girl X, the nine-year-old who was found raped, beaten and poisoned in a stairwell of Chicago's notorious Cabrini-Green housing project, seemed especially affecting. About the only bright note was the speed at which contributions, many as little as $5 or $10, poured in to help...
Annie John and A Small Place, two novels about everyday life in Antigua, have also won awards and critical praise. But at the reading last night, Kincaid downplayed theacclaim she has received...