Word: everydayness
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Alcoa Première (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Dramatization of the everyday life of the average, run-of-the-mill astronaut...
...wants"), and longed for home ("New York is overrated; the West is so much further ahead in fashion"). Blond and slim and looking slightly like the late James Dean, George first started styling hair eight years ago in Grosse Pointe, Mich. The heads he dressed then belonged to ordinary, everyday $100,000-a-year executives' wives. Today he teases hair (at $25 a turn in the salon, $75 for a house call) on heads that belong to world-famous names...
...psychiatric explications with grace and clarity. To date, theirs is undoubtedly the year's most skillful script; but it shows more than skill. It unlids that black hole of unbeing into which any man might at some time fall. It drops the spectator suddenly through the floor of everyday reality and leaves him for some shuddering moments in the depths from which Dostoevsky cried to heaven: "Man, man! One cannot live quite without pity...
...bigger share of the limelight from the abstractionists. Their purpose is to free art from its own limitations by rejecting any dependence on traditional materials-the painter's oils, the sculptor's bronze. Assemblers believe that art can be found in any facet or aspect of everyday life. They scour attics, dumps, and shops to find objects that catch their fancy. They arrange these objects without any regard for what they were in their ordinary existence. The theory is that, placed in new and startling contexts, the objects will take on a new life, assume new meanings, reveal...
...reader with which he interrupts his narrative, Aragon writes: "Perhaps this book falsely, only apparently, turned toward the past, is only a great quest of the future on my part; perhaps it is only that last view of the world in which I merely need to burst my everyday clothes, the clothes of all my days. And perhaps that is why, as I progress from Palm Sunday toward Easter, one word is heard more and more often in my prose-a distant sound at first, like a striking of the ground transmitted by the earth, barely audible, a word ceaselessly...