Word: everydayness
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...Chantal Akerman's first feature introduces the themes of the tyranny of the everyday and the process of sexual intimacy. Harvard Film Archive...
...success must be credited in large part in to the startlingly beautiful and lucid performance of Lara Jirmanus '01 as Yerma. Jirmanus's Yerma retains our attention for the duration of the play; striking precisely the right balance between Yerma's haunting desires and the earthy reality of her everyday life, she manages to retain our interest and sympathy even as her essentially unchanging character becomes more and more tightly wound up, more despairing, more obsessed...
...hour-and-a-half of Stomp consists of a seamlessly interwoven series of such acts. All have their basic conception in common--the creation of dynamic sound and movement from strong bodies and everyday objects--but there's surprising variety among those numbers. One long-haired, bandanna-wearing cast member performs a high-powered solo number for two feet and two brooms; four ornery performers challenge each other to outdo one another in playing matchbooks like maracas. We get solo tap-dancing in heavy work boots, a symphony with drugstore-issue plastic bags and an impressive spotlight number in which...
Laced with anecdotes and everyday relevance, Watson's "Food and Culture" course examines the social implications of food around the world, with topics ranging from kosher rules to table manners, from vegetarianism to famine foods...
...agenda is to teach them to be sensitive about the world, to be sensitive about social groups and to attune themselves to focus in on the details of everyday life, in other words, anthropology," he says...