Word: everydayness
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Cabezon spends much of the first half of his narrative recounting his daily excursions through the city, and plot development is spare. But Aridjis manages to keep-at times enthrall-his readers with a painstaking and prodigious recreation of everyday life. Aridjis' extraordinary research has provided us with lovingly detailed descriptions of everything from Castillian dress-down to the very weaves of the garments-to marriage rites, to the arcane systems of weights and measures...
...least the first count, of course, they're right. George Bush is a very rich man. He vacations in Kennebunkport, sails a yacht, plays incessant golf and chooses stuffy millionaires as his aides. He is as far removed from the everyday American--and the hardships of the recession--as anyone could possibly...
...great sadness, made sadder still by hints and outright warnings from the narrator about what else will befall the beleaguered clan in the half-century between the time he recalls and the time he now inhabits. Yet the play also evokes great joy, in small but vivid exchanges of everyday talk and, most boldly, when the sisters erupt, at home and alone, in the life-embracing energy with which they might once again have danced at Lughnasa...
...little uncomfortable, and if that's what's meant by guilt, then guilt in that sense is just a metaphor. What we're really talking about is a course that is trying hard through literature to connect us to our lived lives, to connect our intellectual life to our everyday experience," he continues...
...Least Heat- Moon, which comes from the Osage Indian part of his heritage. His father was Heat-Moon, meaning July, the hot month; his older brother Little Heat- % Moon; and he himself last and Least. To avoid explaining all of this repeatedly on his reporting meanders, he goes for everyday purposes by Trogdon, his birth name from Irish and English ancestors...