Word: everydayness
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...example, may shame many Americans into being more tolerant on that score. The medium has a ceremonial and sacramental role when it covers tragedies, Challenger explosions, state funerals and the like. It even performs some of the functions of an American conscience. Its priestly influences reach into areas of everyday attitude and morals...
...have murdered. In a later story, Iris dons men's clothing and spends months prowling downtown Manhattan at night, as though drawn onward by the Imp of the Perverse. Relationships, like everything else in Hustvedt's world, are lively, unpredictable, full of mysterious emotion: the dark side of everyday life...
...beyond Bush the dreamer and Bush the everyday American, the main image the president tried to convey with his fiery voice and angry tone, was of Bush the fighter...
...disco of the '90s but with a harder edge and without the lyrics," says Eddie Hardesty, who runs Street Sounds, a techno-music store on Los Angeles' trendy Melrose Avenue. "It's a form of release from everyday life...
...essence Tommy is a fairy tale, its outer narrative based on spells and enchantments, ordeals and rescues, its inner narrative an evocation of growing up and facing down the everyday demons of adult life. Unlike the bizarre Ken Russell film, the narrative reshaped for La Jolla by McAnuff and composer- lyricist Pete Townshend has an essential innocence, maybe even an excess of optimism. The title character, apparently deaf and blind from boyhood, is in fact rendered autistic by seeing his father shoot his mother's lover -- an infidelity made less sordid by the fact that the father, a World...