18 Million People Watch NCIS Nov 20, 2008
The quotidian beauty of Law & Order. Troy Patterson | Nov. 18, 2008. (Slate)
An eye for nutritious consumption is a necessity Nov 8, 2008
The premium we place on consumption still pervades our quotidian lives: Theres even a Food Network I still find the entire concept of cooking shows revealing and mildly bizarre. How is it that we can fill 24 hours a day and seven days a week with food-related shows. (Yale Herald, CT)
Obama will try diplomacy first Oct 28, 2008
The most creative and productive people know that life's a beach, and quotidian labor is often most enjoyable. Mr. Bilotti will be missed on the shores of the Delaware, but he has earned a new life, liberated from headlines and deadlines. (NJ.com -- Times)
The Modest Triumph of I've Loved You So Long Oct 26, 2008
She just goes swimming and shopping with her sister, in effect showing her the simple pleasures of the quotidian of not succumbing to self-pity, of taking responsibility for modest, restorative actions. She is very well and unsentimentally played by Zylberstein. (Time.com)
RPT-FEATURE-Iraq strives to move beyond body count Oct 14, 2008
But as violence drops sharply and Iraq turns towards reconstruction, officials seize upon a more quotidian, yet scarcely less important, set of numbers: economic output, employment, childhood vaccinations and even the whereabouts of Iraq's war-weary population. The U.S. government, World Bank and other donors have backed efforts in recent years to help Iraqi's statistics agency, COSIT, get a better grasp of the country's vital figures. (AlertNet)
A Democrat not on this blog Oct 10, 2008
Palin is a woman who can t even tell the truth about the most quotidian and public details of her own life, never mind about matters of major public import. In her only vice-presidential debate, she was shallow, mendacious and phoney. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
ONE FIFTH AVENUE Oct 3, 2008
Friday, October 03, 2008 Last Update: 08:35 AM EDT. Posted: 4:18 amSeptember 28, 2008. (New York Post -- Opinions)
My Olympic motto: higher, faster, weepier Aug 16, 2008
We are inured to little, quotidian defeats, from having that piece of chocolate pecan pie when we vowed to cut calories to hearing ourselves say the small-minded thing to a friend, family member or colleague at work. Setbacks become our convenient excuses for why something cannot be accomplished. (Globe and Mail)
How to secure Macs in business Jul 16, 2008
From interviews with security experts and corporate IT managers, it's clear that security concerns and potential risks are much more quotidian -- exactly the kind of bread-and-butter stuff that is easy to ignore, especially for Macs, where IT's familiarity with the Mac is slight because users have typically managed the computers themselves. It's time for IT to figure out where the Mac's security holes are so that you can plug them before your corporate knowledge starts bubbling out. (InfoWorld)
Paid for parenting Jul 15, 2008
"I'm not sure that it's working and I'm not sure the message that's being delivered is an appropriate message: that we need to reward people because their children do well in school, where people have to be compensated for engaging in what would normally be quotidian activities you would expect from a parent.". The deputy mayor, Linda Gibbs, says it is too early to say whether it will work or not, but defends the idea of using cash as an incentive. (BBC News -- Americas)
Fiction review: 'Jessica Z.' Jul 6, 2008
The real meat of the novel is Jessica's quotidian life. The dull half of Jessica's aforementioned romantic dilemma is her upstairs neighbor Patrick, with whom she has an on-again, off-again quasi-relationship. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Should You Drink with Your Kids? Jun 20, 2008
Incongruously, the way to produce fewer problem drinkers is to create more drinkers overall--that is, to begin to create a culture in which alcohol is not an alluring risk but part of quotidian family life. Of course, that's a moistly European approach to alcohol, but there's reason to think it could work here. (Time.com)
Finally, Foodies Give Soul Food the Respect It Deserves May 22, 2008
The idea that the legacy of enslavement shapes our attitudes about something as quotidian as our food is a poignant one. Going beyond scholarship, this means that everything we choose to put into our mouths (or not), particularly as black people in the United States, is shaped by that legacy. (Slate)
Obama and Orwell May 2, 2008
But those who speak in its name, he says, have a snobbish condescension toward such quotidian pleasureseven condemning coffee and tea. "Reformers" urged the poor to eat healthier foodless sugar, more brown bread. (Slate)
The Agony of the Food Snob May 2, 2008
Gourmands who swore by New York strip are now singing the praises of the more quotidian hanger steak. Having dinner the other night at an Italian restaurant, I noticed two couples ardently extolling the praises of the bottle of they had brought. (Slate)
Did Obama Just Pivot? Apr 17, 2008
"And so it went, a meditation on a fallen world. While the boys next to me doodled on their church bulletin, Reverend Wright spoke of Sharpesville and Hiroshima, the callousness of policy makers in the White House and in the State House. ... [E.A.]Sounds ... controversial! Keep in mind: a) Obama isn't disapproving of this sermon. In the book he weeps at the end of it; b) Demonstrating that at least some blaming of "white greed" for the world's sins--which Obama now criticizes-- isn't an... (Slate)
The Real Frank Rich ... Mar 31, 2008
It's at the quotidian core of the Afrocentric philosophy that Obama says drew him to the church; c) Indeed, in Obama reads the passage from his book that describes his emotional reaction to this very sermon (his "first service at Trinity")--how it made "the story of a people" seem "black and more than black." d) This is also the sermon that gave Obama the title of his next book, The Audacity of Hope. e) The "profound mistake" of this sermon is not that Wright "spoke as if our society was... (Slate)
House Of Cards Mar 29, 2008
This grounding of the action in Ben's quotidian existence is one of the film's most appealing features. We see a young man with big longings and a circumscribed existence. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Harmonizing England and Europe Mar 26, 2008
In fact, the Lisbon Treaty will reduce Britains ability to block E.U. legislation including items that influence quotidian decisions ... In fact, the Lisbon Treaty will reduce Britains ability to block E.U. legislation including items that influence quotidian decisions. (Townhall.com)
Explorer Anousheh Ansari brought space down to Earth Mar 19, 2008
In September, 2006, Anousheh Ansari became the world's first private female explorer and, without realizing it, the voice of the quotidian observer of the unknown. She brought space down to Earth. (Globe and Mail)
The transforming soul Feb 23, 2008
They are also poems full of both the quotidian - "She must have come out of the woods by Simpson's red trailer - // The one that looks like a faded train car -"; "We were waiting for the school bus" - and of those concrete specifics which are the hallmark of true imagination. In "Pipistrelles", bats "Look like the flung hands of deaf boys, restlessly / Signing the dark"; while "Beside the hospital the giant flag blows out in soft decorum. / And then folds down like a bush or an abashed bird"... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Disturbed lives Feb 23, 2008
The provision of a safe haven, a respite from quotidian strains, calm and kindness may be more remedial, ultimately, than drugs or more focused human intervention. One fact shines clearly throughout the book: the concerned and sensitive attention of another human soul is the single consistent feature in any successful treatment. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Waiting for Menino, 3 wage an uncampaign for mayor Feb 15, 2008
The lawyers and developers who traditionally fund city campaigns are reluctant to stray from the mayor; even those who are not his biggest fans rely on his administration's support for quotidian items from liquor licenses to building permits. When Maura Hennigan challenged Menino in 2005, she said, the mayor's allies tried to discourage people from attending her fund-raisers; contacted a supporter who had a pending permit in City Hall; and even kept track of who attended her house parties. (Boston Globe)
Coloring Paris: A photographic homage to the city Jan 15, 2008
But soon the quotidian took on color, too. The images that interest us most today are the scenes of humble daily life - walls covered in hand-lettered signs and, sometimes, the small blue plaque advertising gaz. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Living up to Isherwood Dec 29, 2007
What affected me most were Isherwood's quotidian social observations, from the decadent luxury of the Landauers, the Jewish owners of a department store, to the tragic-comic squalor of the Nowaks in their Kreuzberg tenement. Today in Opinion. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Coal Ash is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste Dec 14, 2007
Coal, meanwhile, is believed responsible for a host of more quotidian problems, such as mining accidents, acid rain and. But it isn't supposed to spawn three-eyed fish like Blinky. (Scientific American)
Free, not always easy Nov 12, 2007
"A Free Life" is a leisurely, generous tale, with room for a parade of quotidian, homely incidents that convey the texture of life: back spasms, gingivitis, a backyard drake tangled in fish hooks, a miscarriage, concerns about a derelict neighbor, a son's first Halloween, cross-country drives through lush landscape, and endless discussions about money, the evils of nationalism, and what constitutes a worthwhile existence. There are times one wishes Jin had been more selective and taken an... (Boston Globe)
Supersize elements created in lab Oct 27, 2007
One way of addressing this question is to find out how many neutrons can be artificially loaded on to nuclei of so-called quotidian elements, which contain the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons. Accelerating particles. (BBC News -- Science)
Death in the era of facebook.com Oct 16, 2007
The posts have turned to the quotidian, as friends describe their daily lives, the concerts and parties they're going to, and their struggles in college without Josh. Even reading the wall provides a peculiar sort of catharsis for me, as it bears witness to the fact that there is a community of people out there who love and miss Josh too. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
Obituary: Ken Danby, 67 Sep 25, 2007
A superb draftsman and a prodigious and prolific artist of his own time, he was a realistic painter who reflected quotidian events, natural landscapes and athletic prowess to mass audiences, rather than an abstract expressionist who created troubling, edgy canvasses for an intellectual elite. "His way of doing things was not in the wind, and that immediately interested me," said Walter Moos of Gallery Moos, the first major Canadian dealer to take Mr. Danby on in the early 1960s. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Sensitive men, bad fathers? Sep 17, 2007
In 1961, FCC chairman Newton Minow famously called bad television though not, mark you, all television a "vast wasteland." Reality television, that senseless stream of the quotidian, only added more firepower to the critics' arsenal. But while it has about as much narrative cohesiveness as Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues," reality television can illuminate deep cultural shifts. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
Live Earth could have used a dose of diversity Jul 21, 2007
And that's because, in a way, I live in Brazil - or at least as much as I can when my quotidian life doesn't get in the way. Some recent smaller-scale projects have highlighted how music can educate without hectoring. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
More US commuters drive solo Jun 25, 2007
The news comes amid growing hype about going green, in an age when climate change has become as common a conversation topic as its quotidian counterpart, the weather. It could indicate that when it comes to transit, Americans talk the talk, but put simply aren't walking. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
The big picture in his quotidian Jun 18, 2007
au/news/opinion/the-big-picture-in-his-quotidian/2007/06/17/1182018938448. htmlsmh. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Artist works wonders with rollers Jun 17, 2007
-- that enact an imaginary drama of quotidian life with gravity in abeyance. The pictures offer an almost cinematic sense of extension in time, but their stage-management detracts from their pictorial power. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The unsung -- and unseen -- caregivers Jun 12, 2007
And finally, there's the loss of a mother's help and guidance in the quotidian mysteries of parenting a promise that is fading like the memories in the ailing mind of Grimes. "Sometimes I just want to be a daughter," says Wood, her voice catching on tears. (Orlando Sentinel)
Cannes films tough to master Jun 1, 2007
In this anesthetic school of existential drama, the filmmaker stretches an action to the breaking point by way of conveying to the audience a sense of the tedium and banality of quotidian life. It works better in some hands than others; I admired "Stellet Licht" and "The Banishment" (which won, respectively, a jury prize and best leading actor) more than many of my colleagues for their woozy evocation of a rural life gone by. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
The proverbial, lost and found in translation May 26, 2007
Common, quotidian examples demonstrate universal truths. Take the Chinese, "Don't try to borrow combs from shaven monks". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Does this mean war? May 24, 2007
Co-opting military jargon for quotidian activities is an ancient habit, but by doing so with such zeal, state leaders have blurred the distinctions. Cyber-war is, however, something else again. (Nature News Service)
Chabon's alternate reality May 13, 2007
He said he was bored with the "quotidian, plotless, moment-of-truth revelatory story" that dominated American fiction. Let's have detective stories, he said, horror stories, adventure stories, romance stories -- in short, let's have stories with plots. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
Selden: Forgotten Holocaust May 9, 2007
41] In that and subsequent wars it would be the signature barbarities such as the Nanjing Massacre, the Bataan Death March, and the massacres at Nogunri and My Lai rather than the quotidian events that defined the systematic daily and hourly killing, which have attracted sustained attention, sparked bitter controversy, and shaped historical memory. . (Zmag.org)
Chabon sets Jewish homeland in Alaska in new book Apr 29, 2007
He said he was bored with the quotidian, plotless, moment-of-truth revelatory story that dominated American fiction. Let s have detective stories, he said, horror stories, adventure stories, romance stories in short, let s have stories with plots. (Montana Standard, MT)
Raina: Team India Mar 28, 2007
Now, that famous growth rate of 9% that never seems to touch the lives of some 70% of Indians seems castrated by inflation and price rise, rendering even the middle-income sections chary and wary; the billionaires recede further and further into planetary isolation from the beleageuered commoners, even as the forex reserves sit like that proverbial pile of inert gold over which the state watches over like a King Cobra, letting not a brick be put to any general use; and, the ultimate rebuff... (Zmag.org)
It's our bridge Mar 17, 2007
Sydney's love affair with its bridge is explained precisely by its grey, nuts-and-bolts solidity, its comforting familiarity; by its quotidian comings and goings; by the knowledge that all human life - and the surprising amount of wildlife - is there. From day one - when the official celebrations were so dramatically interrupted by the arrival of Captain Francis Edward De Groot - the Bradfield Highway, Australia's shortest, has been a focus for the city. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
These aren't the women I know Mar 9, 2007
Here, the wise-cracking quintet talking eyebrow Eugene Levy has dubbed them "the five funniest women in Canada" have excavated the absurdities from their own lives and repackaged the quotidian fodder as sketch comedy. Fun. (Toronto Star)
As Harvard Goes ... Feb 25, 2007
Now, after a four-year process initiated under controversial former president Lawrence Summers, the nation's most famous university has come up with a whole new set of guidelines that proponents say will help clarify how liberal-arts subjects like philosophy and art history shed light on the hurly-burly of more quotidian topics. "Students will be more motivated to learn if they see a connection with the kinds of problems, issues and questions they will encounter in later life," says interim... (Time.com)
George Gittoes: No Exit Feb 24, 2007
On the other hand, it's possible to over-dramatise events, to turn quotidian horrors into theatrical extravaganzas. And here lies the difference between Gittoes's drawings and his recent documentary films, Soundtrack to War (2004) and Rampage (2006). (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Not a Fan of a N.H. Smoking Ban Feb 22, 2007
The Dartmouth Online. Thursday, February 22, 2007. (The Dartmouth Online, NH)
Life is an open book in more ways than one Feb 16, 2007
It is how we can read into things (yet another form of quotidian reading). Consider how a heart-shaped Valentine can stand for someone s love without using a single world. (Winona Daily News, MN)
DIGITAL DIARY Jan 29, 2007
" simultaneously "assailed by both retro-vision and preview" when he recognizes the wallpaper in a room he thought he had never entered and realizes that he has returned to the scene of a lubricious tryst of many years ago. The episodes of our lives could appear to run in parallel, not just in sequence. And we will find it easier to understand the artificiality of time, that it is an invention of the human mind -- and to grasp at least one of Jorge Luis Borges' arguments for seeing time as a... (San Francisco Chronicle)
editorial page editor Jan 7, 2007
Redactor, diaskeuast, feuilletonist, quotidian printdrudge. An umpire who instead of going out to the ballpark, bellies up to his computer keyboard and calls balls and strikes on issues of the day. (Richmond Times-Dispatch, VA)
