Word: everydayness
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...story through and through. In its story arc, The Longest Trip Home mimics Marley & Me - a life well-lived that requires a death to deliver its message about how to live one's life well. Nothing new here at all, though many readers will see themselves in the book - everyday Joes who win, lose, fight with their parents, and eventually discover their own paths towards happiness. In that, at least, Grogan can take satisfaction in having given the type of insight typically left to fiction writers with far more imaginative tastes...
...They don’t have the mechanism to do the artwork,” she adds. “Their financial sources go towards everyday things...
...family cannot go out to dinner without my mom retelling an episode of 3rd Rock From the Sun that revolutionized conventions for tipping waiters. My sister and I use catchphrases from the short-lived The Famous Jett Jackson in everyday conversation. Two of my clearest memories are of that fateful day in second grade when my dad installed a satellite dish, just in time for the golden age of Snick, and then the day just last summer that catapulted The Lamb Family into the TiVo...
...judgment from physicians and factored in statistical uncertainties. This objective technique, King said, proved useful for another project—interpreting opinions expressed about U.S. presidential candidates in political blogs. For this project, the team needed a technique that could analyze up to 185 million blogs throughout the world everyday, tracking changes in opinion. “We decided to use our own software,” said Matthew L. Knowles ’07, a Harvard Law School student who helped code the algorithm. After adopting the algorithm to analyze text on political blogs, Knowles wrote, the team realized...
...turn over a new leaf, is in a similar (and long overdue) vein of maturity. So is “Dead and Gone,” where T.I. makes his first real social commentary that falls outside the realm of his own personal experience: “Niggas die everyday / All over bullshit / Dope money, dice games, ordinary hood shit/ Could this be cuz of hip-hop music / Or did the ones with the good sense not use it?” While “Paper Trail” is far from perfect—if you don?...