Word: banalities
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...Zaffran fears that anti-Semitic attacks will become banal events in France, and other Jewish leaders share his concern. "No one has been killed or seriously hurt, but there's a growing sense of depression," says Emmanuel Weintraub, a member of the executive bureau of crif, the representative council of Jewish organizations in France. "It used to be hard to talk about a single Jewish community in France, but now there is a community of concern, and lots of discussion about emigration." Alain Elbeze isn't a man to run scared. He says he went to prison...
...Just as Clowes uses the dramatic cliches of superheroes to twist new meaning out of them, with "The Death Ray" he uses the genre's visual signifiers to achieve a post-modern effect. For example, panels of banal scenes such as Louis and Andy watching TV or shopping obscure the traditional two-page "splash" panel of the Death Ray socking a bad guy. But familiarity with the genre's motifs is not required to enjoy the book. With each new issue of "Eightball" Clowes gets more and more skilled at manipulating the formal elements of comix while keeping the narrative...
...Russia's May list of the country's 100 richest people could have irritated someone who was or wasn't included. Klebnikov's death could have been revenge for some past reporting, or sparked by fear of a new revelation. It could even have been caused by a more banal business dispute. There is no guarantee that the real story will ever be known. Many observers suspect the investigation will be used, as one U.S. diplomat remarks, "to settle a few old scores." But a lot more hangs on the case than the Kremlin may realize. The continuing crackdown...
...walked a much more subtle path. The stories he has to tell of the music business’ endless convolutions are not quite sordid, but neither are they ever boring—Slichter’s voice is vicariously thrilling at the highs even as it chronicles the maddeningly banal roadblocks to chart domination...
...Bieng, an idyllically beautiful village in Indonesia's war-ravaged province of Aceh, Bilal heard the shots in the early hours of June 3 but didn't dare to venture outside until well past dawn. The sight that greeted him is so commonplace in Aceh as to be almost banal: Ishak, a 51-year-old farmer who was standing watch over Alue Bieng that night, was sprawled on a wooden platform used by the village's night watchmen, his T shirt pocked with bullet holes. Beneath the platform lay a pool of blood and the brass casings of the seven...