Word: everydayness
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...process of designating new mental disorders by pretending to misplace everyday experience and then trip over it in the laboratory is easy to satirize, but it has high stakes. If Relational Disorders exist (let's say they do) and doctors or drugs can make them go away (let's say they can, though heaven only knows), then a DSM listing is required or the insurance companies won't pay for treatment. Even with the listing, they are sure to grumble about it. Shelling out for even one-twentieth of the cases of "persistent and painful feelings, behavior and perception involving...
...only thing that’s really missing, aside from the people who were lost and can never be replaced, are those monuments you used to see everyday,” Plotkin continued, referring to the Twin Towers...
...could come together, this simply isn’t the truth. While there were hundreds of government workers who died serving their country, the deaths of the vast majority of the victims had nothing to do with serving their country or with patriotism; they were just going about their everyday lives without thinking of America or global politics...
...additional challenge of having to be there." As travel books go, The Art of Travel is on the unconventional side. It isn't about traveling anywhere in particular; it's an extended philosophical riff on the act of traveling itself. De Botton's specialty is the metaphysics of everyday life--he is the thinking lad's Nick Hornby--and in The Art of Travel he takes on the how, the why and the what-it-all-means of wanderlust. Mining his own sometimes hapless experiences (watch for a fight of Nietzschean proportions with his girlfriend in a Barbados cafe...
...from her late nonagenarian husband if she wins a battle over his estate in court, has been called many names--but until now, victim wasn't generally among them. The premiere of The Anna Nicole Show, an Osbournes-style reality series in which a camera follows Smith through her everyday routine, snagged the E! channel its highest rating ever by offering viewers the chance to make sport of Smith's ample girth and apparently boozy reflections on such matters as sex ("I wanna have an orgy") and porn films (she says she'd like to shoot one with "seven girls...