Word: everydayness
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...BIGGEST nightmare, however, is going to parties here. I always run into some poor girl foolish enough to ask me my name. This may seem like an innocuous, everyday event, but its effect is always an evil one. For example...
...likeliest of all solutions to this great mystery is that the Action Man is an everyday, anonymous Cambridge resident, incredibly lonely, but basically inconspicuous. It is this enigma of identity which makes the Action Man such a legend in his own time. In fact, to identify and confront the Action Man would constitute the destruction of a time-honored myth, like Bigfoot, or the Loch Ness monster. A captured Bigfoot is just another mammal; a captured Nessie is just another reptile; an exposed Action Man would be simply just another pervert...
...research unit has also helped sponsor a survey of 1,865 Britons, asking what became known as "Hardy's question": Had they ever been "aware of, or influenced by, a presence of power" different from their everyday selves, whether or not this was referred to as God? Overall, 34.6% said they had; among the better educated, the figure...
...really care about. If supporters of divestiture are really serious about it, let's see a boycott of goods made by companies doing business in South Africa. Probably in will be more difficult for John Q. Liberal to do without a multitude of everyday goods, things like oil, automobiles and chemicals from virtually every major manufacturer of those goods...
...fight the sense of unreality induced by a comfortable childhood, Arbus would ride the subway for hours at at time to observe the freaks of everyday life, the albino messenger boy, a girl with a purple birthmark. She continued to fight what she thought was a sheltered life by planting herself in unpleasant situations. When her husband Allan received training as an army photographer, her inexperienced hand took up the camera. Her first subject was the bare lightbulb hanging from their ceiling. Later, when a dead whale washed onshore in New Jersey, she took a bus there to photograph...