Word: everydayness
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...first place? Theories of technological push and the need of capitalists to expand domestic markets suffice, but at this point of crisis, the theories and the questions behind them seem almost superfluous. Like the Three Stooges or Abbot and Costello often did on those shows we used to watch everyday after elementary school, America has unwittingly painted itself into a corner--into an insane and unpleasant style of life--and the point now is to get out, even if it means getting our shoes dirty and messing up the floor a little...
...often the theoretical research of physicists and chemists is totally incomprehensible to laymen. Yet their theories frequently lead to discoveries that dramatically change the course of everyday life. That relationship between the abstract and the practical was emphasized last week by Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences. It awarded the 1973 Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry, worth $120,000 apiece, to five scientists whose achievements not only have had a major impact on their fields of study but also are already producing practical fallout beyond...
Ferreri's greatest problem, however, is that he fails to connect the everyday lives of his characters with their actions at the villa. In the opening scenes, he gives a glimpse of each man's life, but the vignettes connect only superfluous details to the body of the film. This is a film about a decision to die, about a decision by four well-to-do-men that bizarre death on the weekend is somehow worth more than a less frantic hedonism continued over a protracted period. The decision to die cannot be divorced from the work and family lives...
...write a symphony that could pass as minor Shostakovich. In the years after World War II, he aligned himself with the Communist partisans fighting the Greek monarchy and drew his first jail term. He decided that his real medium was the laiki moussiki (serious pop) central to the everyday lives of the Greek working classes...
...they are only temporary kings like those in The Golden Bough: marked, after their brief ascendancy, for death. By the end of the book that death proves to be literal for several; for others, it takes the symbolic form of loss of virility, humiliation or merely a return to everyday life...