Word: prosaic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industrial exhibit once consisted of bringing in a hunk of machinery and putting a rail around it. Today, the most prosaic product whirls and whooshes, beguiles the eye and delights the mind...
...generally give Defferre high marks as an articulate, engaging personality and a fine, practical politician. Yet he is given little chance of breaking De Gaulle's lordly hold on the French voter. Defferre hopefully points to Britain's postwar rejection of glory-minded Winston Churchill for the prosaic, practical Clement Attlee. The French, too, he feels, may be tired of glory, and he is quite content to picture himself as a Gallic Attlee...
...effervescent dreams," with the speaker, a night-person whose world is associated with the subway. This theme has possibilities; certainly the eerie and depressing nature of a 3 A.M. subway ride offers fertile material for the perceptive poet. Yet Chandler's images, completely unimaginative, merely roam between the prosaic ("The city is lonely after midnight") and the ludicrous ("There are flowers in the city of the moon: painted in faded colors on the subway walls...
...houses (from $30,000 to $100,000) around the chateau. Most of them looked like provincial farmhouses from the outside, were startling only in that there were a few tricky Couelle nuances inside (odd-shaped staircases, sculptured fireplaces). They sold quickly, but the brochure apologized because they were so prosaic: "For reasons of commercial prudence and topographical necessity, Couelle had to limit his fantasy...
...scenes. Trouble is, the author's durable patchwork of memories cannot be packed and crated, nor can intimations of every man's mortality be reduced to a broad hint that something is going to happen to Dad. Director Alex Segal has rendered a poignant minor classic in prosaic style, as if he were a nosy neighbor letting everybody in on the awful thing that happened to those nice folks down the street...