Word: everydayness
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...season, it is also the smartest and most unexpectedly moving. Peter Boyle plays Joe, an embittered middle-aged New York cop who pounds the beat with a brash young partner, Willie (Andrew Rubin). The pair traverse the desolate city streets and cope with the unglamorous trivia of everyday police life. A woman is found dead in her apartment, and Joe and Willie debate what to do with the bag of money she has left. An old man wanders into a deli and orders a meal he cannot pay for; he turns out to be an Alzheimer's victim...
...people." At one point, the trial of a student charged with insurrection against the government is interrupted by the demand to know who the minjung or "people" really are. The open search for an identity critically reflects on the problem of imposing an artistic unity on an everyday reality that remains, in its future prospects, open-ended...
Espionage is the nominal subject, but there are few spine-tingling pleasures in James O. Jackson's grimly fascinating novel Dzerzhinsky Square. His goal is to depict, in the ruined life of one man, the privation, squalor, illogic and naked fear of everyday existence for Soviet citizens. Jackson, TIME's Moscow bureau chief, hangs his narrative on the premise that Soviet soldiers who had fallen into Nazi hands thereby became "tainted" in the eyes of their government and, after the war, faced exile to Siberia or worse. He further suggests that U.S. authorities offered them new identities, enabling the soldiers...
...Harrison's direction is fine when it captures the languid rhythm of everyday preoccupations and lets its attractive actors (especially Hallie Foote, the author's daughter) breathe quietly through the lace curtains of memory. The mood is so lulling that the intrusion of climactic plot devices involving an alcoholic friend and a cooty cousin seems not only extraneous but downright rude. There goes the neighborhood, and the movie. Instead of a valentine to his ghosts, Foote finally delivers a tardy, clumsy Easter present: Horton Hatches an Egg. By Richard Corliss...
Explaining the community's approach to monastic life in the 1980s, Father Martin Smith, acting Father Superior, says, "We need to be honest about the patterns of twentieth century day as opposed to ninth century traditions, to be much more comfortable wearing everyday clothes [outside the monastery] while wearing a habit while we're in community, not using the symbol, as it rings false...