Word: workaday
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...what Lynn Redgrave recalls as a characteristic family photograph, her father Michael and sister Vanessa posed exquisitely in front while the workaday members of the family -- Lynn, her brother Corin and mother Rachel Kempson -- stood demurely behind. She doesn't come out and say so, but the grouping was painfully apt. While acting seems to be a genetic imperative for the clan (five generations have worked in the business), only Michael and Vanessa have been touched by the magical ability to make transcendence look effortless. He was among the greatest of a towering generation that included Olivier, Richardson and Gielgud...
...gritty street atmosphere. But Homicide owes an equal debt to a more recent series -- Fox's reality show Cops. Like that video-verite program, Homicide pays less attention to the crime solving (cases come and go so quickly it's hard to keep track) than to the character and workaday lives of the crime solvers...
Would tourists still flock to London to watch the lesser royals queue up at bus stops or elbow their way through soccer crowds? Would the British really relish a workaday monarchy like Denmark's? The problem with all solutions to the current problems of the royals is that their historically entrenched tradition is profoundly irrational. Early in Victoria's reign, Walter Bagehot wrote of the crown, "Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic." Sometime, probably not very far in the future, the British people will have to decide whether they want the magic...
Urban, leftist, academic Berkeley, California, and remote northern Idaho don't share a lot. But both places have become havens for Americans who have dropped out of the workaday culture, who have a paranoid streak, and who view the very concept of government as oppressive...
...Asians in Los Angeles has nearly doubled. The new immigrants came to the largest manufacturing center in the U.S. not to sell movie "projects" but to find jobs. The truth is thus the very antithesis of the myth: at its core, Los Angeles is a blue-collar and workaday town. Its residents tend to drive pickups or subcompacts, not Beemers and Rollses. They wear jeans and baseball caps and speak in accents redolent of Oklahoma or Texas, Ohio or New York, Mexico or El Salvador, Vietnam or Korea. Few Angelenos have ever seen a movie star. Many have never even...