Word: everydayness
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Spade's notion that something as everyday as a handbag should tell a story--easy summer afternoon, for instance--springs from her mother's Kansas City, Mo., closet. "She had clutches, oranges, pinks, chocolates, huge pearl buttons," she says. While an editor at Mademoiselle in the early 1990s, Spade found little on the market that lived up to her mother's collection. So in 1993 Spade began sketching boxy totes in her Manhattan loft and buying burlap for her bags from a potato-sack manufacturer found in the Yellow Pages. "One [fabric supplier] said to me, 'Honey, you look like...
...audiences are responding. On Home & Garden Television and the Food Network, among the fastest-growing ad-supported cable networks, the nonperfectionist programming is scoring the highest ratings. The Food Network's roster of shows launched in 2003 reads like a self-help catalog for cooking enthusiasts: Easy Entertaining and Everyday Italian as well as Lee's Semi-Homemade...
...That translates into 700,000 strokes and 165,000 deaths each year, making ischemia (the technical term for the most common type of stroke) the nation's No. 3 killer. Even among survivors, strokes can exact a terrible toll: aftereffects range from difficulty walking, speaking and carrying out the everyday activities of life to depression and paralysis...
Delbanco’s style focuses on humor and Rosalie is wryly aware of all the events in her life, both tragic and comic. The novel focuses on everyday issues—employment, love, friendships, urban life—but Delbanco makes a point of creating a strong voices among her characters to keep the readers interest...
...Reading manga has inspired Mecca Moore to do her own art. "I have a whole book of manga stories I keep and ideas that I want to get published some day," she says. "Sometimes they're superhero stuff and sometimes they're just like everyday life. I try to get different people's perspective." She says she wants to be a manga-ka, or professional manga artist, not later...