Word: everydayness
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...world-wide system of U.S. military and economic domination. In the recent past, the U.S. has attempted to bomb Indochinese anticolonialists into submission and has continuously supported and invested in overtly totalitarian regimes like Chile, South Korea, and Iran, where torture, censorship and political repression are the everyday instruments of government. Now, as popular consciousness is increasingly sensitive to the gap between American rhetoric and reality, Moynihan's efforts to create a new demonology are of crucial importance in restoring domestic support for a revived counterrevolutionary foreign policy...
...York's new superstar. The Loeb caught her February 5-7 at the tail end of a series of Tharp profiles in The New York Times Magazine and The Village Voice. As a result, Tharp's style is now publicly well-defined: snatches of pop dance and everyday gesture emerging from tightly-paced choreography; cool, aloof dancers tossing off precise wiggles, shimmies and shrugs. It adds up to a complex choreographic vision...
...French thus are supposed to devise substitutes for the ubiquitous anglicisms that comprise a good part of their everyday vocabulary: such non-bons mots as bestseller, sexy, blue jeans, bowling, gadget, checkup, checkout, jumbo jet, baby sitter, nonstop, dead heat (pronounced did it), hot dog, hijack, racket, zoom, jukebox, call girl, marketing, merchandising and leasing. Evidemment, the government will need un computer -preferred usage: ordinateur-to track down the offending business man, a designation that is not precisely conveyed by its closest French equivalent, l'homme d'affaires, and even less by la femme d'affaires...
...film solely out of psychological depth and intensity. The Story of Adele H. alternates between the depth of Adele's passion and the uncomprehending world around her. The audience is not subjected to and unrelieved barrage of profundity. The strange thing about Truffaut's perspective is that the everyday world doesn't destroy Adele, doesn't hamper her, and doesn't seem devalued compared with her own state of mind. Adele destroys herself while the world looks on benignly. With the exception of the callous (though not evil) lieutenant there are only good people in Adele's world--her father...
...street; its tempo gives the movie the balanced, quick paced, one-liner feeling of a fight. The characters in Rockycan't ever say exactly what they mean--they choke their subject or miss the mark, shooting straight from the hip--but in their very inarticulateness their funny, everyday struggles are revealed...