Word: everydayness
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...genetically predisposed to sexual infidelity. It drew nearly 800 letters from readers (many predictably indignant), the fourth largest mail response to any story this year. That article was based on a current book that is also stirring debate among readers and scientists: The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life (Pantheon; $27.50). The New York Times called it "a feast of great thinking and writing about the most profound issues there...
...problem with HASCS--well, the most urgent problem, anyway--lies not in their network administration but rather in their user support. Though the majority of everyday problems can be resolved by the user support team, this "help desk" needs help--badly...
...white shots of a rainy New York City in the 1950s punctuate the scenes. Anne Bancroft, as the mother, looks lost inside her drab overcoat, while Joan Cusack and Adrian Pasder etch small, sad portraits of her well- meaning daughter and son-in-law. The camera focuses patiently on everyday details: a woman reaching into the refrigerator for a glass of milk or trying to thread a sewing machine. Then there is Chayefsky's fabled naturalistic dialogue, which faces up to cliches ("I don't want to be a burden on my children"; "My mother worked like...
Phair presents herself as an everyday person singing about her joys and fears. However, she's just a bit smarter, lustier and braver than most, and that's what makes her so winning. When it comes to speaking her mind, there's no fear in her heart...
...physically attacked the work of 35-year-old multimedia artist Lorna Simpson, but her installations are equally confrontational. Mixing photographs with short blocks of text and recorded bits of conversation, she focuses on the ways in which black women are treated like objects in everyday language and imagery. In a 1992 piece, Self-Possession, Simpson uses a Polaroid frontal image of a woman's torso dressed in black. Its red-gloved hands frame her abdomen and the words IS 9/10THS OF THE LAW. Simpson has also collaborated with actress Alva Rogers on Places with a Past, a work that combines...