Word: everydayness
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...REED, the erstwhile guitar hero of the '60s New York underground, has been getting some new sensations. These sensations may be old hat to normal people, but for Reed, the acceptance of life as it comes and the discovery of simple, everyday pleasures are two feelings to which he has never quite achieved. His struggle to fully possess these sensations--without succumbing to destructive side effects like alcoholism or worrying about over-whelming outside forces--gave his former albums, The Blue Mask and Legendary Hearts, their tension and energy...
...expansive guitar and synthesizer work of Reed and Peter Wood. The lyrics begin as a straightforward statement of Reed's new aims in life, but then suddenly veer off to follow Reed and his GPZ to a roadside diner out in Pennsylvania, where he takes part in the everyday life of the country people, and, for once, truly becomes what he seeks--the existence of an average guy. As a paean to the simple life, and as a promise of newfound security, this song evinces unusual warmth and maturity...
When it comes to using TV, Ferraro is a curious throwback. Many new-style politicos in both parties disdain routine congressional chores, trying instead to make their reputations-and win votes-over the tube. Everyday in the House, blow-dried young Congressmen rise to give mini-stump speeches that are carried on cable TV and often picked up at home by local news shows. "Ferraro is no photo-op type," says Christopher Matthews, an aide to O'Neill...
...causes of these mistakes and double takes are not people but the uncannily realistic bronze figures of Sculptor J. Seward Johnson Jr. In parks and plazas from San Antonio to Seattle, some 120 of Johnson's life-size sculptures, many sporting colored clothing, capture the everyday details of ordinary citizens down to their crumpled brown bags and untied shoelaces. They portray carpenters, businesswomen, students, engaged in such activities as talking on a park bench, leaving a tennis court or simply scratching their backs. "We are surrounded by monolithic towers and cold glass in our cities," says Johnson. "My work...
...Harvard should divest its holdings from companies doing business in South Africa. Both issues have received a great deal of attention, but Corporation members say they were not the most difficult of the last decade. Instead they point to something very routine and very much a part of their everyday agenda: how to manage the University's budgets and endowment during the recession of the middle 1970s...