Word: humdrum
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...reality, the reason we have sports is tocreate a diversion from the normal humdrum, to beenjoyed," Smith says. "I think that is one of thethings that I learned from watching Bill Cleary'sgreat Harvard teams. He coached with suchenjoyment and such effervescence that his teamstook on his personality, and that is the coach'srole...
...near vicinity of farm animals?") He plans to install a pool table in the Oval Office. He plans to grant statehood to any Canadian province that wants it--except Quebec, "which nobody likes, anyway." Most of all, he plans to inject a little life into an inevitably humdrum campaign. And he thinks he's just...
...takeover-crazed 1980s, a cheeky business-school dropout named Donald Carter transformed the humdrum job of counting ballots at corporate shareholder meetings into a multimillion-dollar business. As head of the Carter Organization, he orchestrated campaigns to persuade shareholders to back corporate raiders. For his work, he collected ten times the going rate. But the proxy prince scooped up some illegal gravy as well. Last week in a New York State court, Carter pleaded guilty to stealing $1 million from his clients through false billing...
...handsome patterns of sprinkler heads in the ceiling are a game: some are real, others are small air-conditioning vents, still others are dummies, there simply to complete a pattern. What would otherwise be prosaic necessities, scattered helter-skelter, become handsome details, all conveying the worthy message that the humdrum texture of modern life need not be arbitrary and slapdash...
...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...