Word: everydayness
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From there it is a short step for athletes to believe they can ignore the rules in everyday life as well. Society conspires in that belief. Sports stars move in a rarefied world of privilege where good grades, money, drugs and sex are readily available and transgressions are easily forgiven. "After all, the group-think rationale goes, rules are for others, not for heroes," points out psychologist Toni Farrenkopf of Portland, Ore. Communities are outraged when minority youths are involved in sexual assaults, but when revered athletes are implicated, the response is commonly a tut-tutted "Boys will be boys...
...matter what the setting or the destination, there is a special drama about a train. The rules of the everyday are suspended, moments are easily shared. Observes Kenan Lott, operations manager of the Houston-to-Galveston Texas Limited: "People get on board thinking that two hours will be too long. But by the time they get off, they're old friends...
Lucas and Rene focus on the human side of AIDS: the inability of good friends to know how to react properly to the illness, the changes in everyday life caused by fear and management of the virus and, of course, the virus' enormous impact on personal relationships and social behavior. The talented group of male actors convey their own special reactions to AIDS, and they create a mood of comaraderie and intimacy that is touching but not overly sentimental...
...word in the great pursuit of pleasure is Luxus, or luxury. It is commonly used these days to describe ashtrays, bathrooms, cars, furnishings, graphics, holidays -- just about anything used in everyday life that is well- designed or distinctive. Frequently it means something outrageously expensive. G&M, a mail-order house in Bavaria, caters specifically to such tastes, offering a catalog of 273 "carefully selected luxury gifts," with a total value of $26.5 million; among them are a Tabriz rug for $964,000 and a gold-plated record player for $75,000. Dieter Schiwietz, a Hamburg plastic surgeon, says women...
...somewhat rumpled and unfailingly polite Oxford professor, 58, has spent most of his career spinning theories in the most abstruse areas of mathematics and physics. His contributions to both disciplines have earned him a sterling reputation among his colleagues. But his pursuits have been so far removed from the everyday world that few people outside his fields of expertise were even aware of his existence...