Word: everydayness
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...BOTTOM LINE: A satire of corruption in everyday life has lost its edge in crossing the Atlantic...
...BEGINNING, THERE WAS RIGHTEOUS indignation. Just three hours after the King verdict was announced, thousands of shocked black residents of South Central Los Angeles gathered at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church. Speaker after speaker denounced the injustice and alienation that are part of their everyday life. Each community leader acknowledged that institutions designed to protect law-abiding citizens had failed them this time, but still some appealed for calm. "Look beside you," said Los Angeles city council member Mark Ridley-Thomas. "These young African Americans are not in the streets...
...caused by "people taking advantage of the situation to justify violence and looting" rather than "a genuine reaction to the verdict in the Rodney King case." But one of the greatest differences between the races was also among the most ominous. Only 23% of whites felt that in an everyday encounter with police they ran a risk of being treated unfairly. More than twice as many blacks...
...picked up his victims at bus stops and other public places, lured them into the woods, killed them, cut them up and possibly ate parts of them. Citizens of the former Soviet Union have only recently become accustomed to reading about everyday crimes in the once rigidly controlled press. Now they are following the trial of a man the newspapers have called "the century's most depraved mass murderer...
...when it is going to turn philosophical and declaim what it means. Although the subject is nothing less than the whole range of political, social and philosophical options by which black people have lived for the past couple of decades, the story remains, to all appearances, a glimpse of everyday existence circa 1969 in a run-down Pittsburgh luncheonette...