Word: everydayness
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...always taken pride in: social and physical mobility, practicality, informality, even rebellion (such as when Woody Allen wore a pair of Converse high-tops to escort First Lady Betty Ford to the ballet in 1975). It has only been since the 1960s that sneakers have become the shoe of everyday life, the U.S. form of mass transportation. Worn by bums and billionaires, All-Stars and klutzes, the sneaker is a quintessentially democratic shoe, the rubber soul of America...
...into history's Dumpsters, as used up as New Year's confetti. A few -- we can't know which -- will turn out to matter, and to last. Whether by typifying 1991 or by transcending it, whether by embodying some great theme of the day or by quietly capturing the everyday, they will reverberate as long as, maybe longer than, the dramatic headlines now shouting at us. They will be, in Ezra Pound's phrase, news that stays news...
...before it brings most of its principals to the edge of the title gorge, there to commune with a symbol of the timeless universe's indifference to our petty bedevilments, the film accomplishes something remarkable: it forces us to contemplate the fragility of our everyday arrangements, the ease with which brutal chance can void the habits and relationships we count on to give life its continuity. It is hard to think of another American movie that has so directly, even naively, confronted the basic source of our existential unease. Or done so with such easy humor and graceful sentiment...
...Tina didn't come here as a defender but when [Caples] gave her the chance to play everyday, she ran with it," said roommate and two-year Co-Captain Clark. "She got better and better every game. We had all the confidence in the world in her back there...
Maus is, above all, a story of a family and how something which is now, in so many minds, an abstract historic events, can still touch everyday lives. Spiegelman realizes the historical importance of the Holocaust--how could he fail...