Word: everydayness
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...were a happy blend of Dutch naturalism and Roman classicism. Mathieu, the most successful, became master painter to the city of Paris, assumed the title of Seigneur de la Jumelle. But this sort of pomposity does not invade his Card Players. The game is tense, the players wary; an everyday scene becomes a study in suspense...
...hill of minutiae. He climbs it slowly each evening, then skis down the other side in long set pieces, some of which have become so familiar that he jokes about how the lips of his audience move with him as he goes along. He finds comedy in everyday trials-a frustrating conversation with a child who keeps hanging up the phone, a speck of dirt in a glass of milk, TV commercials, a dentist ominously taking X rays. Perhaps best known is his airline routine ("Coffee, tea or milk?" chirps the stewardess, although the wing is on fire); because...
...cannot undertake, even political interests aside. Despite the fiascos that New Hampshire puts on every 7 years, conventions like New Jersey's in 1947 have succeeded when advised by competent research. The uniqueness of a convention overcomes the usual cynicism toward politics and stimulates interest and support that the everyday process of government cannot get. Jerome Rappaport, a member of the Constitutional Conference that has been studying reforms, maintains that "it does a society a great deal of good to examine the organic structure of its government in an introspective fashion, just as it does an individual to examine himself...
Tall Fireman Paul and Busy Policeman Joe (Victor). In the mythology of the city child, the policeman and firefighter are noble Hector and great Achilles. It is a brave myth, and this record, enriched by the street noises of everyday reality, does nothing to tarnish...
...these stories, it is Gary's reliance on sharply observed everyday truths that makes the unremarkable glow remarkably. Here, as in his novels, nothing seems to be made up and everything seems worth hearing about...