Word: everydayness
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...Spider molts. Spider, much like his young readers, is a little guy trying to learn how to navigate the world. He dreams of soaring on the wind to faraway places like his grandpa, who one day floats across the ocean to Paris. But happily, he is solidly grounded in everyday mischief, as when he laughs about grossing out people by spinning a huge sticky web on a water fountain or when he confides that "butterflies taste better with a little barbecue sauce...
...appealing to some voters. This philosophy centers around Affleck’s belief in citizen legislators as opposed to career politicians. In a 2001 interview with GQ Magazine, Affleck said, “My fantasy is that someday…I can run for Congress on the grounds that everyday people—be they singers or poets or bankers or lawyers or teachers—should be in government.” If Affleck can capitalize on this notion and present cogent but less characteristically passionate arguments, then he could create a tough race for Allen...
...MOVIE IS BETTER: There's a lot more of the grit of everyday life in 18th century rural Britain that was commonplace to Austen but is new to us. Animals wander through the house. There's mud everywhere. Also, it ends with a kiss...
...truth is that President Chirac’s “children of the republic” are not much different than your average everyday teenager—spoiled, angry, and looking for someone to blame. What makes French-Arab youths particularly annoyed is that they live in a society that preaches entitlement and equality. But instead, they face the tough reality of widespread discrimination and a poorly-performing economy, held down by powerful unions and nationalistic sentiments that oppose French integration into a more competitive and freer EU market...
...there to purchase an extra-long t-shirt and jeans with legs so big I could have ridden my bicycle through just one of them. Even though we kept our actual motivations for purchasing said clothing to ourselves, we obviously weren’t out to buy clothes for everyday use, and everyone in the store knew it. The idea was to “Get Drunk or Die Tryin’” in celebration of the release of 50 Cent’s new, similarly titled biography, playing in theatres now. To do this, we planned...