Word: everydayness
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This standard-size carrier bristles with surveillance devices, many of which are disguised as everyday items that can make paranoid executives feel as invulnerable as a Fort Knox guard. A cigarette pack in the case lights up to warn that a tape recorder is present. An ordinary pen illuminates when a "bug" is located near by. A supersensitive sniffer detects hidden bombs...
...year so far: Richard and Linda Thompson, British musicians of formidable gifts and marginal celebrity, release their sixth album, Shoot Out the Lights. It is a record that has no contemporary equal for surpassing a particularly difficult goal: working the simple tragedies of the everyday into the stuff of folk legend, and letting the stories flow through melodies that seem to have been tapped from some deep Celtic wellspring. The music, fresh, strong and startling, has ancient reverberations and contemporary overtones. Each song has the clenched power and pitiless clarity of a Francis Bacon painting...
...social politics. "There is no mark on the wall," she wrote, "to measure the precise height of women," and, in the absolute sense, she is still right. The deepest impact of the women's movement is intangible. Some of feminism's greatest advances are revealed in the everyday auguries of family, home and job; some of its greatest power has come in altering the cadences and the promises of a woman's daily life. In 1972 women wondered hard about the possibility of having a family and a career...
...left the way open for yet another devastating run-up in interest rates, which have bedeviled the economy throughout the Reagan presidency and indeed during much of the Carter presidency that preceded it. The renewed upward pressure now threatens harm to businesses large and small alike, and indeed to everyday people by the millions. They can do little but stand by and watch as already fading hopes for a robust recovery this year fade even further...
...symbol seems more appropriate for Angell than for any of the sports other scribes. Baseball is loved for its everyday consistency, and the majority of its sportswriters are equally reassuring and revered for their predictable accounts. But it is the Ron Guidrys and Pete Roses that continue to redefine baseball excellence and make the park worth coming to. In the baseball-writing world, Roger Angell serves as the dazzling star, who not only plays the game but shapes it, enchanting baseball fans and others for the past 20 years. The long, expansive articles, the smooth, artistic personal accounts offer...