Word: everydayness
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...qualified vision endeared him to some of the most complex minds in France. "Too fastidious for plain statement, he proceeds by insinuation," André Gide wrote of him in 1905. "There is nothing sentimental or highfalutin about the discreet melancholy which pervades his work. Its dress is that of everyday. It is tender and caressing, and if it were not for the mastery that already marks it, I should call it timid. For all his success, I can sense in Vuillard the charm of anxiety and doubt...
...civil war. But in Karachi, a source with close connections to Yahya's military regime concedes: "The generals say the figure is at least 1,000,000." Punitive raids by the Pakistani army against villages near sites sabotaged by the Mukti Bahini, the Bengali liberation army, are an everyday occurrence...
Feelings confines its examples to everyday events. Earlier books in the series explain how it feels to be retarded and what it is like to be The Man of the House when the father is away on a business trip. Other volumes deal with bed-wetting and thumbsucking, with solving problems by talking about them and-in My Grandpa Died Today-with facing death...
What he found was a relatively close-knit community, a "good block" with "good buildings" housing "good people." Yet the homiest of the five articles to run so far-long treatises on the comity of the postman and the everyday frustrations of shopping-fail to dispel the notion that New York neighborliness is little more than a tenuous alliance. In fact, Corry's best piece so far lists the precautions taken by residents of the "good block" to keep from being robbed, raped, beaten or killed: "George Bassat keeps a club next to his front door. Mr. Brouwer...
...over the past 20 years. It involves a chronic split between two modes of perception. On the one hand, the leisurely, selective, linear images on the museum wall; on the other, the shifting, promiscuous, more or less disposable flood of information and patterns that makes up most of our everyday visual experience. Much recent "novelty" art, as diverse as Pop and kinetics, is acutely conscious of that disjuncture. Indeed, the split itself has become a form of subject matter, and few men have made use of it more steadfastly than Paolozzi. For nearly a generation, he has been an indispensable...