Word: everydayness
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...first album, Can't Buy a Thrill(1972), held some promise of transcending everyday pop. But the Latin beat of "Do It Again," the tight guitar work on "Reeling in the Years," seems, in retrospect, contrived and commercial. Now, the band members change from cut to cut, but it doesn't matter. As long as Becker and Fagen are at the helm, everything meshes, sounding like a jamming session between George Benson and the Doobie Brothers (they're even guilty of spawning the new Doobie sound...
...nine months, newly arrived Vietnamese have been thrust into everyday American life from the moment of arrival. Families like the Trinhs (see box) are lodged, sent to school and employed, if possible, with surprising speed. Though the culture shock is incalculable, the boat people are determined to adapt. "Whatever job they get here usually means a substantial upgrading in their standard of living," points out International Rescue Committee Executive Director Charles Sternberg. One major problem for the boat people, however, is loneliness. Un like Korean and Chinese immigrants, the Vietnamese find no well-established communities of compatriots. Most...
...Your everyday life consists of trying to defend yourself from abuse," Uspensky recalls. "Most of the people there are highly educated, and have high moral values, yet defending your moral self-esteem becomes an everyday struggle. You are considered a kind of animal...
...groups within the Soviet Union. Twenty years after he made the first note, Uspensky (whose work is now funded by a federal grant), has collected more than 30,000 words. Seventyfive per cent of them have never been registered in any dictionary despite the fact that they are in everyday usage. He hopes to publish his work next year. "The authorities want to purify the language, to make it like distilled water," he says. "But no language can exist on that principle...
...fervid evangelicals of the Moral Majority. The eight men Reagan has named to be his close advisers are archetypes of the U.S. corporate elite, interested in serving the desires of almost none of this country's or the world's people, interested instead in further increasing corporate control of everyday life. Reagan would have been hard-pressed to do worse...