It's a less commonplace experience, though, to feel yourself becoming actively less well-informed as you read, as if the celebrity's words were eliminating your brain-cells, one by one, like bubble-wrap being popped.
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Haydn's death this year, the cellist David Geringas has decided to devote some attention to the baryton, a less commonplace instrument for which Haydn composed copiously, and started the Geringas Baryton Trio.
In both stories, a teenage couple, Rhiannon and A, deal with complications a little less commonplace than driver's licenses and prom dates.
Like Richard Pryor, Miss Tomlin is a great, edgy, idiosyncratic performer who demands special treatment to succeed on film, as she did in Robert Altman's "Nashville" and Robert Benton's "The Late Show". Playing a more or less commonplace character, she tends to fade into a sort of modest blankness.
The book could guide an adventurous cook in discovering less commonplace seasonings, like nigella, wattle seed and sumac, with inviting dishes like chicken baked with onions and sumac.
To taste less commonplace treats, the Emporium, a half-mile out of town in a box of a building that looks like an abandoned gas station, is an excellent stop.
That book, Eliot's first full-length novel, was published in 1859, and in it she expresses a conviction that informed all her fiction: "The way in which I have come to the conclusion that human nature is loveable — the way I have learned something of its deep pathos, its sublime mysteries — has been by living a great deal among people more or less commonplace and vulgar".
That book, Eliot's first full-length novel, was published in 1859, and in it she expresses a conviction that informed all her fiction: "The way in which I have come to the conclusion that human nature is loveable the way I have learned something of its deep pathos, its sublime mysteries has been by living a great deal among people more or less commonplace and vulgar".
Less commonplace and more exotic was sabzi chalow ($8.95), a sautéed spinach, lamb chunks, herb, pine nut amalgam.
While high-capacity magazines for hunting rifles are less commonplace than for those rifles that look vicious, a ban on "assault weapons" will surely make them more commonplace.
While assigned seating is becoming less commonplace across the industry, most cruise ships still stick to a narrow band of fixed meal hours.
