Word: everydayness
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...itself, a bizarrc extravagance; in Michael Anania's set design, it looks like a broken-down Baroque cathedral of navy-grey latticework, paint peeling and planks rotting. The "folly" folds its arms around the encounter between two aging unmarrieds, giving them a spot just slightly set apart from the everyday to work out their conflict...
...American Bible Society, 12 million sold, $4). Even the experts do not agree on whether the Good News is a "real" translation or a paraphrase, but generally scholars defend its faithfulness to the original. This Bible's really notable achievements are its simple vocabulary and an attempt at everyday idiom (I Corinthians 13: "I may be able to speak the languages of men and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell"). A better choice than the Living Bible for people who have trouble reading...
Look at almost any new movie, and you will find its spirit fettered in realism, soldered to the everyday. When a film attempts to soar into the oneiric, with voluptuous imagery and italicized feelings, it is likely to be grounded by those air-traffic controllers of popular culture, the critics. Excalibur is such a film. Viewers are advised to decide for themselves if John Boorman's retelling of the Arthurian romance is a dove or a dodo...
...American plays, Producing Director Jon Jory and his staff winnowed out the plays to five one-acters, five full-length works and a collection of short pieces. As a profile of the U.S. psyche, three main characteristics emerge: a mercurial violence simmering just beneath the surface of everyday life, bizarre, zany, irrepressible humor, and wistful reverie about the past or the future. Americans like to dream out loud. Herewith, a sampler...
...major problem of any law on bribery is that in much of the less-developed world what some Westerners might regard as commercial corruption of government and business has always been looked upon as an inescapable fact of everyday life. The stylized arrangements for giving and taking payments are often perfectly normal and legal under local law and custom...