Word: commonness
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Question: What do Caesar and Madonna have in common? Answer: immortality. No, Dewitt is not talking about a certain greasy salad dressing or the lint-free bellybutton. Augustus and Madonna have given us the most prized possession of historians and glibmeisters: the buzzword, what historians who like to use foreign languages call (and italicize) the zeitgeist. Augustus gave us the Augustan age; Madonna has given us the Age of Desperation...
...Quality productions are experiencing casting difficulties because actors are few," Victor said. He said common casting week--which was insitituted in the spring of 1984 to centralize all auditions for house and Loeb Theatre shows--has proved enormously successful and led to an increase in the number of shows each year...
Victor said he definitely would not want to end common casting week, and would seek other ways to deal with the shortage. "Since the initiation of Common Casting Week, there have been some phenomenal productions. We're not going to kill fantastic theater," Victor said...
Still, it is likely that Reagan correctly gauged the political odds on shoes. Though determined, the defenders of the shoe industry are not numerous enough to carry Congress. That is, unless they can make common cause with Congressmen fronting for some other--and more powerful--endangered industry, such as steel, textiles or autos...
...director; she for public drunkenness and he for driving while intoxicated; in Arlington, Va. After Robert was detained, police say, Anne demanded to see him, became abusive, was arrested and put in jail, where she scratched a female deputy. Said the sheriff: "Drunk-in-public charges are not very common. You almost have to ask to be arrested...