These everyday glimpses of world rulers sneak under the radar of audience expectation, so that unexpected revelations about Mao's taste for women, Hitler's flatulence or Stalin's stature (5 feet 4 inches) provoke a realignment of sensibility.
In the last few years alone, the government had to bail out Wall Street to the tune of $700 billion, Madoff and Stanford bilked investors of billions, and ex-Goldman executive Greg Smith's damning op-ed in the New York Times gave everyday people a glimpse into Wall Street's profits over people mentality.
His characters always seem to be seeking a portal in the everyday for a glimpse at the eternal.
An enchanting glimpse of everyday Bombay life.
Assange said the snapshots of everyday events offered a glimpse at the "human scale" of the conflict.
Furthermore, talking about their formative work "allows people to delve into their past and remember what it was like to be an everyday Joe – a little glimpse of life before the flashbulbs were popping".
Roy sorts out the love knots with a touch that is both bold and gentle, but the bigger delight of the book is its intimate, comic glimpse into everyday life in a small hill town, from the local bureaucrat's earnest sanitizing mission to the church-owned jam-making coöperative.
At once dreamlike and real, elliptical and quotidian, Vermeer's luminous canvases freeze and magnify time: they capture a passing glimpse of everyday life -- a young woman admiring her pearl necklace, a maid pouring milk from a pitcher, a girl reading a letter by an open window -- and preserve that moment in amber.
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Hightail it to Cannaregio, where you can get a glimpse of everyday Venetian life and pretend, for just a moment, that you live there.
