Word: workaday
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There is a hardhat (Clifton James) whose workaday life seems to have been as terminal as his present state. His distraught wife (Joyce Ebert) cannot ac cept her husband's imminent death...
Plains is customarily a pretty serious workaday kind of world, but for this day the town was roped off from reality. The townsfolk, who believed in Carter back when the rest of the country laughed, had been preparing for the historic event for days. Bank Manager Marvin Nation was tacking up bunting on his building. Billy Carter was leaning on a red pickup truck, giving an interview to a reporter from Rio de Janeiro. The ladies of Plains, in best Southern tradition, had baked up a storm. Rosalynn Carter's mother produced her choice butternut cake a day early...
...fictionalizing the film. He and Pakula were convinced that documentary-like realism was essential to the picture, that they had to develop what Pakula calls "an immediacy, a sense of being there," that would replace conventional melodrama as a means of sustaining interest. He also felt this attention to workaday detail would protect against the picture's "overwhelming potential for pretentiousness...
...Xerox machine has eased its way into the fabric of workaday America so subtly that only on occasion do people realize how important it has become. The U.S. Postal Service got away with raising postal rates at the end of the year after only a moderate amount of protest; but when the agency simultaneously shut down 2,400 coin-operated copiers in post offices (after complaints from private copy-service interests), public outrage was strong enough to have most of the machines restored. Much of the evidence that toppled Richard Nixon and his Watergate conspirators came from photocopied documents leaked...
...minded English entertainers, Prince Charles doffed his royal decorum last week and took a turn on the boards during the Taverners' silver jubilee at London's Grosvenor House. Then, after mingling with the ball's 1,300 guests until 2 a.m., the Prince returned to his workaday world at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich...