Word: quotidian
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...name of inevitable progress, fades one of the quotidian figures of life in Boston. Thousands of stickers on token booths will be scraped away; hundreds of thousands of commuters will slowly forget the multiples of 85 cents. The city's quirky transportation system, its fares no longer quaintly nestled under the barrier of a dollar, rumbles into the 21st century...
...interview with TIME last week, dressed in his now signature loose-fitting, all-black ensemble, Woods practically boasted that his life verges on the quotidian. "I'm a professional athlete. That's my job. That takes me around the world, so right there that's not your average 24-year-old," he said. "But in every other respect, I do everything the same. I may go out to a movie, to a restaurant, bars; the only difference is there are consequences for my doing it. But you can do the same things like anybody else. And that's what people...
...hour or so, What Lies Beneath dwells in this sort of quotidian creepiness. And as long as it does, director Robert Zemeckis' movie goes like a (haunted) house afire--mysterious moans from the heating system, the hint of a stalking presence, even some strange initials on Claire's computer screen. Everyone--especially her gruffly good-natured husband Norman (Harrison Ford)--says Claire is overwrought...
...Fourth of July weekend, I am rereading David Reynolds' splendid book "Walt Whitman's America" (1995). It gives me, among other things, a sense of reassuring continuity. We need the past - good, bad, mythic, squalid - as a counterweight. It is sometimes hilarious to see what a mess - embroiled, quotidian, contemporary - the American past actually...
...annihilation of Nagasaki by a U.S. atom bomb on Aug. 9, 1945. What makes the images so immediate, however, is the harrowing commentary from some of the 23 combat cameramen interviewed for the film. "I came to view these cameramen as they view other servicemen--as heroes of the quotidian," says Schickel. "They were guys doing their jobs without thought of glory or fame. They remain unassuming, often humorous, always realistic about their accomplishments...