Word: everydayness
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...thinking how to proceed further (WRITER PLANS SING-IN; POLICE CHIEF THREATENS ARRESTS; MAYOR PLEADS FOR CALM), and it was lovely to contemplate. I mentioned the Solidarity affair to a woman friend, and she threw her arms around me and told me she admired me. This is not an everyday occurrence in my life...
...kind of load the framework of the character of Bean is supposed to support. It's like having an hour-and-a-half long "Seinfeld" episode about something and expecting viewers to care sincerely about the daily pitfalls of the characters--pitfalls which are so endearing because they are everyday and unimportant. Bean takes Atkinson's comic mastery and confines it in a standard, sappy, Hollywood package, one with family values, emotional growth and other such sickening artifices. The film raises the appealing dumbness of Mr. Bean to an unwelcome and unintentional plateau of movie-dumbness with swirling layers...
...same is true of the SATs. In the suburbs, the richer section of society can learn new SAT words in their everyday life just by picking up a newspaper at home or by hearing their parents speak, while the poorer city kids have to worry about crimes and drugs in their neighborhood. Just by growing up in a better learning environment, most whites and Asians will be more prepared to take the SAT than blacks and Hispanics. In addition, it is not surprising to see that it is mostly whites and Asians that can afford preparatory courses for the college...
...highlighting what is important, not what is entertaining. That's a job for the tabloids. What's important, like state budgets, the spread of disease and urban planning, can be made interesting because these are the issues that matter to real people on an everyday basis. Not Bill Clinton's sexual exploits. Not the Kennedy's babysitter. Coz has won. America has lost. It's a tabloid world...
Jones, also a part-time student at the Harvard Extension School, eats a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich everyday at 8:30 a.m. before starting work...