Word: everydayness
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...There should be more government type stuff,more everyday business that aren't like big WallStreet setups," he says. "There should be moreforeign opportunities...
...bars and wind up raped by men who think they are merely having fun. Deranged people wander in and out of almost every public place, talking to themselves or roaring confrontationally at strangers. An ill-advised glance at a fellow subway passenger leads to threats of mayhem. These are everyday realities in many big cities, unbearable yet borne, mostly in grim, self- imposed blindness and deafness to what is all around. They somehow become more resistant to willful ignorance when placed on the stage in a play as eerily uninflected as Howard Korder's The Lights and a production...
This was certainly not the first time something like this had happened to me. Believe it or not, I am used to this type of treatment whether it be in northeast D.C. or in the Quad. In fact, similar situations arise everyday for Black people in America, be they blue-collar workers or Harvard graduates. Racism knows no class or educational status. Whether it entails being followed by a storekeeper, refused a ride in a taxi, or harassed by a police officer, the prejudice is real...
According to the popular wisdom, Seinfeld is a show about "nothing." Episodes are spun out of small, everyday trials and tribulations -- looking for a parking spot, wearing a funny-looking shirt, trying not to masturbate (last season's Emmy-winning episode The Contest, in which the characters competed to be "master of your domain"). In reality, the show is more densely textured, elaborately plotted and psychologically astute than any other comedy on TV. It is, moreover, the product of two distinct but oddly congruent comic personalities: David, 46, a dour ex-stand-up comic and writer (he appeared...
...most realistic of Jean Renoir's films depicting the life of a group of Italian immigrants working in a quarry. Shot in an authentic environment, with newsreel-like photography, without any makeup on the actors' faces, the film is experienced as a documents "as close as possible to everyday life." "A Day in the Country" is an unfinished masterpiece, based on Guy de Maupassant's short story. It captures the atmosphere and fashions of 1880 through glorious shot compositions and in inspired by the canvasses of great impressionist painters...