Word: everydayness
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Although his hitting is what got him into the everyday line-up-in particular a home run in his first collegiate at-bat against Northern Iowa-Hochanadel is no slouch in the field...
...both satire and great affection. Parisian-born, Doisneau began his career as a photographer while in his 20s, lending his talents to the Resistance during the Nazi Occupation. He achieved prominence as a fashion photographer after the war and international recognition with his portraits of the "little drama in everyday life." Yet there was some stagecraft behind those supposedly candid moments: in a legal dispute last year, Doisneau acknowledged that he had paid two models to pose for his famous The Kiss at the Hotel de Ville. Whether that detracts from its perfect evocation of a certain time, a certain...
DIED. LEWIS GRIZZARD, 47, humorist; from complications following heart surgery; in Atlanta. "A Faulkner for just plain folks" was how one publisher characterized Grizzard, who made hay of everyday angst and irritation in a syndicated column and 14 books -- not to mention on speaking tours and sundry media gigs. The titles of Grizzard's best-known works sum up his puckish view of the world, as filtered through his experiences as a multimarried Southern male child of the '50s: Elvis Is Dead and I Don't Feel So Good Myself and My Daddy Was a Pistol...
...though, have no problem becoming close friends with their students, sometimes even throwing keg parties for them at the end of the class. Their students, however, maintain that they are very good teachers and that the boundaries of the relationship are clearly set. For them, it's your everyday TF-student relation, with a lot of beer on the side. "Epsilon", another sophomore, says he has become very good friends with his tutorial leader, to the point that "she talks to me about her boyfriend and I talk to her about my relationship." Although this doesn't make either...
...dreaming about those slave-girls they bought in Cairo). At the same time, he knows his surroundings well enough to misrepresent them subtly: Damascus appears slightly trated up for the Western reader, slightly more quaint and foreign than it actually is. A sly native salesmanship pervades the book, turning everyday Syrian banalities into a world of mystery and intrigue...