Like many artists from a privileged background before and since, he searched for authenticity among the urban working class and the rural poor and in the commonplace, man-made landscape -- buildings, signs, storefronts.
One reason why Russia bucks the trend towards equal life expectancies for the two sexes (women there live 12 years longer than men) is that its men have not followed their Western confrères and cut down on the cancer sticks.In Britain in the 1960s, when the habit was commonplace, men were much more likely to be smokers than women.
When she discovered that the boy was really his son, and quite a commonplace young man, now, of 21, with a vulgar-looking mother she became desperate.
Sexual violence was commonplace ; one man described an electric-shock device inserted in his anus; women interviewees said guards routinely used rape as punishment.
In fact, the 2015 summit in Paris will come at the end of a year that's on track to be the hottest ever recorded -- not to mention one filled with severe droughts, floods and storms, the kind of extreme weather that scientists say will only become more commonplace as man-made emissions continue to push the world's climate along its dangerous path.
Now it is commonplace, among men as well as women.
It's depressing anyway that the movie shaped real, tragic events into a moralising narrative designed to deter women from aspiring to freedoms that are commonplace for men.
In 1998, it wasn't commonplace for men to release sexual pictures and videos of their exes onto the internet as a form of revenge.
We had on our best clothes, and we talked pretty, and were very happy — all except two young fellows, students, just returned from Germany, commonplace young men, who seemed restless and uncomfortable, as if they found the proceedings slow.
The dreadlocks that used to signify adherence to the Rastafarians, the millenarian Jamaican sect founded on marijuana and the deification of Haile Selassie, are now a commonplace on men's fashion runways, on white models, it should be said, as well as black.
Sights that were rare even a few years ago are now commonplace: white men and women jogging throughout the neighborhood; white college students biking, skateboarding and hanging out on stoops; groups of white 20-somethings walking home from the subway in the wee hours.
