Word: everydayness
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...Journal impudently, but intelligently, challenges it." Fairlie warmly compliments the reporting and writing of the Journal's daily background news stories-a piece of praise that is the sole exception to his general contention that American journalists do not know how to write. Even so, for everyday reading, Fairlie's personal favorite is the Washington Post, "the most promising major newspaper in the eastern U.S.-in spite of all its defects...
...they exchange smoldering glances; lightly, almost accidentally, his hand brushes hers. The lighting is muted, their mood is solemn. The effect is that of domestic comedy played in the style of grand opera-a pitiless and economical way of emphasizing the gap between the actress's dreams and her everyday life...
...faith remains as rock-solid as Gibraltar. Evangelist Billy Graham is one of them. "I know that God exists because of my personal experience," he says. "I know that I know him. I've talked with him and walked with him. He cares about me and acts in my everyday life." Still another is Roman Catholic Playwright William Alfred, whose off-Broadway hit, Hogan's Goat, melodramatically plots a turn-of-the-century Irish immigrant's struggle to achieve the American dream. "People who tell me there is no God," he says, "are like a six-year-old boy saying...
...exported 23% of its cars but sent only 1,500 to the U.S. To increase those totals, the company has invested $90 million to build a modern factory at Arese, just outside Milan. Luraghi expects to double output in seven years by turning out cars that appeal to the everyday driver whose Fangio instincts are stirred by a six-speed manual gearshift and easy acceleration to 100 m.p.h...
...grew from a frail follower of Ford into the world's largest and most profitable corporation. As much as any other individual, Sloan shaped the auto industry, which itself reshaped the entire U.S. economy and, in Sloan's words, changed "the pace and style of everyday life in America...