Word: everydayness
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What a luminous, near future would be visible to us if two, three or many Vietnams appeared throughout the world with their share of death and immense tragedies, their everyday heroism and repeated blows against imperialism, obliging it to disperse its forces under the attack and the increasing hatred of all the peoples of the earth...
...hear about it but when you see it, it makes an incredible impression. The ranch was called Oceanview Ranch. The workers lived in the forests at the edge of the fields. Most were from Tijuana, but Oceanview was about 80 miles from the border so they can't commute everyday...
...more DEA agents (at present there are only two assigned to the state). The Coast Guard is also woefully outmanned: it has only nine cutters to patrol the entire New England coastline. According to Edward Drinan, a DEA agent stationed in Portland, drug smuggling in Maine is "an everyday occurrence." His bleak assessment: "We are getting our pants beat off. There's no doubt about the fact we just can't cope with...
...running errands: going to supermarkets, drugstores and health-food stores, where Keaton bought two bags of special caramel corn-the kind with extra nuts. Says Castro: "Diane doesn't want to be surrounded by the trappings of stardom. She wants to be able to travel and do everyday things without being recognized." Later in the week they visited Keaton's grandmother, Grammy Hall, and toured the Hollywood hills, looking at houses that Keaton had considered buying. Castro taped more than ten hours of their conversation while gathering information for her 66-page file to Contributor John Skow...
Chagall's compositions juxtapose everyday types--lovers, dancers, clowns--with fantasy creatures and settings that include two-headed monsters, violinists with goats' heads and a host of other mythological figures in bizarre and often sinister landscapes. He draws heavily on recollections of his childhood in Russia and the folk tales of that country. And yet viewing these prints one feels an uncanny sense of deja vu regardless of nationality--it is as if Chagall had painted what he could remember of a dream of his, and it is the kind we have all had occasionally. It is one of those...