Word: everydayness
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...paws" by 15th century European clergymen, forks are such a fixture in 1980 America that there is even a stop-go one on the market, with flashing red and green lights to indicate when it is time to take another bite. Some Fiji Islanders, according to Rudofsky, eat everyday fare with their fingers and reserve forks for formal dishes roast of human flesh...
Costle, who will leave his office with the Carter Administration in January, doesn't see the Reagan administration as necessarily bad for the EPA. The extremism of rhetoric and ideas seen during the campaign will be quickly moderated, he said. "They'll have to face up to the everyday nitty-gritty that is public policy," Costle said...
...bourgeois materialism and coventionalism. In art, Dada prescribed no specific aesthetic, but rather an attitude, a shared feeling that traditional art had somehow failed to reach modern man. The Dadaists sought new modes of expression that would make art relevant to life. Taking this idea literally, they introduced everyday objects and materials into art. Duchamp created "readymade" sculptures using old urinals, bicycles and other assorted junk. Kurt Schwitters invented the term "merz" for his art, defined as a "fusion of all conceivable materials for artistic purposes." Collage and photomontage became chief modes of expression...
...stores to arm themselves; in the twelve-month period ending Sept. 30, more than 40,000 handguns were sold in Dade County, up from 29,000 in the preceding twelve months. "Most customers are people like your mother," says one gun shop owner. "They're just average, everyday folks who want to continue to live...
...David Gershuni's everyday kind of patient. But the orthopedic surgeon, working early one morning in a large barn at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, was unfazed by his jumbo task: to place a cast around the fractured leg of a twelve-year-old African elephant named Mandavu...