Word: humdrum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Roaring Twenties news photography began an extravagant era of expansion. After the bloodiest war in history, the world had fled to private pursuits. A craving remained, however, for images of disaster and tragedy -- and something more: insights into the humdrum reality that most people were delighted to embrace. Photography responded with a huge boom in publication. Pictorial magazines and photographic journalism entered a period of creative magnificence...
...little like The Wizard of Oz played backward. British journalist Tony Parker gets caught up in a brainstorm with his editor and is blown from batty Albion into the middle of humdrum Kansas. There, in Dorothy's native land, he finds not a winding yellow brick road but a grid of blacktop highways crossing one another at predictable right angles. Instead of tin men and cowardly lions, there is a pride of stolid citizens unashamed of their placid routines and quick with the thank-yous and have-a-nice-days. Wicked witches? Nope, but there is a local drunk...
...never be quite sure, but one thing is certain: playwright Tina Howe, overpraised in the past for her wan Wasp tone poems (Painting Churches, Coastal Disturbances), has infused new energy into her work. At the same time, she has sustained her gift for hinting at profound meanings in humdrum moments. To Howe, the eternal in life is clearest in its ephemerality; the memories that haunt us to the end of our days are of the most ordinary, and thus revealing, events...
...that effort not only eventually doomed his tenure but nearly destroyed what he had built as well. A.C.T. remains burdened with debt, compounded by the prospect of up to $10 million in needed maintenance for its aging theater. Worse, judging by its current offerings, the company is artistically humdrum...
...wife Ruth (Elizabeth Humphrey), who are living a peaceful life in the English countryside. But peace is disturbed when Charles calls upon local psychic Madame Arcati (Traci Miadich) to assemble information for one of his new books. With the appearance of Charles's dead wife Elvira (Holly Cate), the humdrum existence of the Condomines is completely overturned...