Word: prosaic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sleek, stark space in Tokyo's fashionable Roppongi Hills neighborhood and the soaring glass wall seems less a barrier than an instrument for osmosis. Among his latest designs for haute-couture label Issey Miyake?fanciful blouses and blazers inspired by the flourishes of baroque furniture?mingle a more prosaic product: Takizawa's imaginative take on Lee jeans and Champion sweatshirts. "For too long, fashion was something people could look at but couldn't imagine wearing," says Takizawa, whose collaboration with the decidedly unglamorous American clothing companies debuted this spring. "I wanted to mix the street and art and create something...
...death penalty for those who convert to other religions, and although the penalty is not binding in most Muslim-majority states, persecution is common. This alone would not retard missions work. Most evangelists accept it as a cost of sharing faith. What did slow their efforts was a more prosaic measure: the gradual elimination by most Muslim countries of professional "religious worker" visas. Established organizations built around salaried missionary lifers found themselves hamstrung...
...management is just the beginning. Under a reform blueprint announced last month, the agency's domestic-spying operations will be curtailed and its anticommunist bureau abolished, according to an NIS spokesman. Hundreds of operatives whose jobs were to infiltrate "subversive" groups, including labor unions, now have a more prosaic mission: lawfully gathering intelligence on foreign-business competitors overseas...
...monstrous event was confirmed at Parkland Hospital in small, prosaic episodes. Two priests arrived to give last rites, and coming out of the hospital, one of them blurted, "He's dead, all right." That was the first bulletin of death in a tragedy that was seizing the world, and for four more days would grow and be embedded in history by television saturation the likes of which we had never seen before...
...Ricketts preached the idea that all life was related, from the sardines that once swarmed by the billions off the California coast to the people who depended on them for their livelihoods. He quaintly called his philosophy the ?toto picture.? In these ecologically minded times that thought may seem prosaic, but it was a message few considered in Doc?s day, no more dramatically demonstrated than by the sudden collapse of Monterey?s sardine fishery in the 1940s. Doc had warned against over fishing, but no one listened. And suddenly Monterey?s great silver harvest was gone...