Word: everydayness
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...Mark Strand called "The Room." It describes a place much like that waiting-room: antiseptic, empty, bereft of any outward emotion, full of silent anticipation. A sense of detachment in the short, simple lines emphasizes an underlying presence of death and sorrow. And Strand's dreamlike collection of everyday objects paradoxically works to produce a coherent poem. Orr's poetry used the same simplicity, the same etherial contrast of commonplace images amid stark, unencumbered language, but the effect is different, more diffuse...
...Beautifully crafted, like the Henry James stories of Venice and the supernatural, Nicholas Roeg's picture works subliminally, its momentum of mystery sensitizing an audience like only the finest thrillers can. Here the method is a connecting set of visual imagery that tampers with the evenness of reality, giving everyday objects a threatening countenance, making the unseen real. Starring Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, and Venice...
...purpose is nothing less than to refocus man's perspective about his place in the chain of being. Astronauts' bootprints left on the moon stir his imagination like "contemporary ziggurats," places "where the gods came down to earth and the population as a whole transcended everyday life." For him, the U.S. space program is justified simply because it irreversibly thrust us into interplanetary travel. "In all the history of mankind," Sagan writes, "there will be only one generation that will be first to explore the Solar System, one generation for which, in childhood, the planets are distant...
...1920s he was widely syndicated, a national institution more or less on a par with his friends Ring Lardner, Will Rogers and Charlie Chaplin. His grand subjects were the quirks of everyday life, things like the difficulty of navigating through revolving doors.or reading a medical thermometer. But Rube Goldberg's zany imagination and zippy drawing style really blossomed with the Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts-those incredible falling domino devices that poke fun at the complex concatenations of modern technology by deploying sleepy dogs, melting ice, steam whistles and levers to light a cigar in an open...
...sometime thing but a matter which must be made evident by thought word and deed, in public and in private, by every single one of us in the University. Perhaps the letter of the law would be easier to achieve if the spirit of it became a part of everyday thinking and speaking. Elizabeth M. Dunn