Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part of our life that we will never forget," he said in a telephone interview last night. "We made many wonderful friends both with undergraduates and members of the Senior Common Room. We made the decision with a great deal of reluctance...
...essence: there's just not enough of it. When police departments in the Washington area launched a program to crack down on aggressive driving last year, cops handed out some 60,000 tickets in 28 days for offenses ranging from tailgating to passing on the right. The most common excuse: "I'm late...
Last week United Airlines Flight 826 from Tokyo experienced this special brand of aviation hell, leading to 83 injuries and one death. Though life-threatening turbulence happens far less often than the mild rumbles most flyers experience, it is still all too common. On average, 17 U.S.-based planes get slapped around enough to cause injuries each year; between 1980 and 1995, 129 people were seriously hurt, two fatally...
...fishy characters or hapless unfortunates, but in either case nothing like themselves. Weegee knew that his tabloid readers were often not so different from the people in his pictures. And he was sufficiently unmoved by the pieties of concerned photography--let's just say that the nobility of the common man was not one of his big preoccupations--that he didn't hesitate to show people a picture of themselves in all their gamy glory...
...helped, of course, that he was a pretty common man himself. Born Usher (later changed to Arthur) Fellig in 1899, Weegee was the son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. He dropped out of high school, then moved out of his parents' Lower East Side apartment in New York City while still in his teens, spending some time homeless, scuttling through public parks, shelters and menial jobs, all the while hoping for regular work in a photo studio--an ambition he picked up while working as an assistant to an itinerant street photographer. Depending on which story you believe, his nickname...