Word: uncommonness
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...begins as an ordinary day in a distinctly uncommon marriage. Bri (Alan Bates) comes home to his Bristol flat after a typically wretched time teaching school. His wife Sheila (Janet Suzman) has tea waiting and dinner warming in the oven. They joke together, Bri tries to coax Sheila into bed, and their only child comes home from school. She is called, with a mixture of brutal humor and despair, Joe Egg. She is autistic, beyond help and hope-a child barely aware of her own life who slumps in her high chair like a boiled vegetable...
Norah (Shirley MacLaine) is rich, divorced, anxious, a woman fighting a losing battle against becoming a matron. A familiar enough character, but one with an odd quirk: Norah has an uncommon affection for her younger brother Joel (Perry King), who lives in a shabby flat in the middle of a forbidding Manhattan slum. "Why do you live down there with those people?" Norah nags, but Joel only grins...
...father, all my uncles and two of my brothers have gone to Boys Town, and we consider Boys Town to be an uncommon experience for troubled boys. Boys Town is neither an "industrial corporation" nor a perpetual "endowment fund." The land is used to raise agricultural products to sustain the city of Boys Town and to provide a vacation area for hundreds of troubled youths. I'm certain the $17 million income will be spent altruistically as it has been for the past 55 years...
During a two-year period, the U.M.W. improperly passed $49,250 in miners' money to politicians. Although the Democrats received most of the money, funds went to both parties-not an uncommon hedge for either industry or labor (see BUSINESS). Boyle argued that he was simply following the example of his mentor, Lewis, a onetime political kingmaker who blatantly wielded funds and votes for favored candidates. Boyle, 67, will now be barred from running for union office, although he cannot be ousted from his present job and will remain free on bail while his case is appealed...
...anything from pottery to stage-design and photography. Set up in the Dewey tradition of learning-by-doing, a then radical idea of education, these workshops served as the core of the Bauhaus structure. The students familiarized themselves with their materials and with production processes, picking up practical experience uncommon for architecture students...