But Munro is now 81, and told the New Yorker last year she's "losing names or words in a commonplace way", and that "this time, I think it's for real".
In a little more than two decades, Mr. Culhane said, largely because of an economic boom that increased demand for urban housing by single adults who could pay, "homelessness went from a problem afflicting a few thousand skid row denizens to a commonplace way station for millions of America's poor".
I'm eighty-one, losing names or words in a commonplace way, so… Though each of the stories in "Dear Life" has an openness — even a forgiving quality — the pile-up of regret and disorientation in your characters' lives adds up to a slightly bitter conclusion.
Inter- or cross-disciplinary studies in volcanic areas are becoming more commonplace as ways of improving disaster risk reduction are sought (e.g. Gregg et al. [2004]; Ricci et al. [2013]; Donovan [2010]; Gaillard [2008]; Haynes et al. [2008]).
I think people have this very narrow box of what media about queer people has to be, and I would love for it to just become more commonplace the way it is in my life.
Airbrushing became commonplace in other ways.
Setting targets has become commonplace as a way of measuring achievement and progress.
All three tales are terse and volatile; as Haggis pushes toward the climax, he makes the sequences shorter and more urgent, with overlapping thematic and visual motifs, until commonplace reality gives way altogether, and the stories melt into one another.
The story is based on a horrific crime, but there is something disturbingly mundane and commonplace about the way the film unfolds – the sense similar events may be taking place as we watch, in suburbs we frequent and neighbourhoods in which we live.
These questions are not answered in "Ordinary Resurrections," whose title is taken from the label an Episcopal priest once offered Kozol for "the commonplace and frequently unnoticed ways that people rise above their loneliness and fear".
