With the TV intoning darkly that the world will never be the same, there exists strange comfort in New York's more commonplace story lines.
But as those stories become alarmingly commonplace, the line at the theater may not be so robust.
MOSCOW — In the middle of the Cold War, with shortages and lines commonplace, Valery Dudakov used to stroll through the Arbat district of Moscow, near the Kremlin, hunting for hidden treasure.
But while "Rare and Commonplace Flowers" blurs lines, it is really not especially radical; mimicking a chorus of scandalized friends, after all, is not the same as making them or their opinions up.
"Heavy artillery, air strikes, mortar barrages and the indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas are commonplace and battle lines shift quickly," he wrote.
It's becoming more commonplace for cruise lines to offer special deals like drink packages or onboard credit at the time of booking or once you get onboard.
Even the jihadi instructors who apparently confided in him assured him that farce is commonplace in their line of work.
DRIVE swiftly along Oak Tree Road, and it seems like a commonplace suburban boulevard lined with rows of stores of no distinctive character.
Long gas lines became commonplace and the U.S. economy fell into a recession.
As long as there was at least a theoretical separation of comic and tragic styles, either genre could, on occasion, appropriate the stylistic manner of the other to a striking effect, which was never possible after the crossing of stylistic lines became commonplace.
