Word: prosaic
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...prosaic commuter craft drops out of a blue-black sky and taxis down the flight line, past Rockwell International, which is testing the B-1B bomber; past General Dynamics and the F-16; past Fairchild Republic and its T-46 trainers; past the Army, testing Black Hawk helicopters; past McDonnell Douglas, at work on the F-15; and just beyond the Air Force and its antisatellite system; and comes to rest outside the Northrop hangar, wherein the Tigershark resides. Our innocent is not met by a sales rep; rather, Roy Martin, a test pilot, blond and angular and wearing...
...confused old man now with a prosaic name, but he will live forever in American history as Deep Throat. The real W. Mark Felt, the FBI bureaucrat unveiled by Vanity Fair last week as the country's most famous anonymous source, will always be obscured by that mythic shadowman who whispered secrets in an underground garage to a young Washington Post reporter, damning the Nixon presidency to its eventual demise...
...Show to discuss the contest (he eventually married in 2002). Geeky and lanky, he sported a boyish haircut and during primary debates cited intellectual tomes like The Rise of the Creative Class. For all his talk of balancing the budget and reforming the schools, he also harped on a prosaic matter: overpriced parking meters...
...This prosaic reality, though, doesn’t translate very well into fiction—especially fast-moving fiction. Hence Professors Langdon and Massey—and hence, eventually, my roommates’ and my Latin verb-declining, kung fu-fighting heroes. There is something strange about propagating a myth that you no longer believe in, especially when it’s more or less about you. But if there’s one thing that Miracle on 34th Street—and, come to think of it, the lukewarm reviews for Ross Douthat’s debut tome?...
With Spanglish, Brooks has proven once again that he’s one of the best filmmakers of our time: the balance of comedy and drama here is no small feat. But the real achievement is the writing. With prosaic gems ranging from sweet (“they should name a gender after you”) to damned clever (“lately your low self-esteem is just good common sense”), Brooks is almost guaranteed a best original screenwriting nod come Oscar time. Oddly, he’s able to do this in with one of those...