Word: everydayness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...reason I don't subscribe to pop-culture magazines. You degrade your publication when you print anything remotely related to beefs between people who claim to be artists yet who appear to be nothing but street thugs. The more we glorify the gangsta lifestyle, the more it will pervade everyday life. I prefer not to have to bulletproof my car, thank you very much...
...Some critics think the story has been overplayed from the start. "It's not intrinsically important," says Peter Kellner, journalist and YouGov president. "It's a horrible thing for the family, for a small group of people. But everyday, thousands of people around the world have to cope with horrible events." Still, Monck believes that British editors have seized upon the story because they identify with the McCanns: They, too, are middle-class professionals, many of whom have children and have taken similar vacations...
...Love Me, in which, despite the buzz over its explicit sex scenes, the most interesting couple is the pair who never have sex. Dave (Tim DeKay) and Katie (Ally Walker) are devoted parents who haven't been intimate in a year--in part, simply because of the exhaustion of everyday chores and staying close to the kids emotionally and physically. (Katie, we learn, breastfed them until they were 2 1/2.) "I guess, yeah, I should be in the mood every time I clean out the gecko cage!" Dave yells, ranting sarcastically about the erotic stimulation of bedtime stories and minivan...
Second, they will present Harvard students with evidence that renewable energy can be unobtrusive and practical. Turbines such as those that may be placed atop William James Hall would be silent—perhaps even aesthetic—everyday reminders that clean energy can come from close to home...
Getting back to everyday life is never easy after a long summer break. But few will find it tougher than the McCann family. Four and a half months after vacating their pretty Leicestershire village in the heart of England, Kate and Gerry McCann and their two-year-old twins finally quit Portugal's Algarve coast for home yesterday, leaving a list of unanswered questions behind them...