Word: everydayness
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Throughout his article Mr. Feinberg refers to the value added tax as "regressive," as opposed to the "progressive" income tax. These labels are, technically exactly correct. The problem is that Mr. Feinberg neglected to indicate that these terms have different meanings in economics than in everyday life...
...distance between the director and the screen persona is exactly the same as the distance it flatteringly allows the viewer to place between his real and everyday persons. It licenses us to believe that our everyday behavior doesn't truly reflect our character, which is altogether deeper, more astute, suffering and sensitive. The procedure is increasingly cosy and conspiratorial-we go to a Woody Allen film knowing exactly what to expect, and sure enough there it is, a flabby shapeless dish, occasionally spicy, but altogether sagging and apologetic...
Here on the center shelves are the prosaic items, toothbrushes and toothpaste, utilitarian, kid-proofed bottles of aspirin, razor blades, wart-burning solutions, hemorrhoid suppositories, the banal soaps of everyday for people who use soap to get clean. You notice the preponderance of American trochees: Colgate, Ben-Gay, Right Guard, Band Aids, Q-TIPS...
...wars for the U.S. It recalls those people who gave their lives in active support of the ideals of their country. Yet it is hard to get excited about a holiday that pays tribute to the achievements and struggles of people in circumstances so far removed from our everyday lives...
...public figure having a relationship with a woman other than his wife is all that significant." Most editors agree that news judgments must be made on a case-by-case basis. Says Bill German, managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle: "I try to measure these stories by the everyday and common standards. Are they correct, pertinent, newsy and fair...