Have I not thought it into existence hard enough?
This 1985 play by the British dramatist Howard Barker, making its New York debut in a smart and rowdy production from the Potomac Theater Project, takes us to a time when existence was hard, really hard, and you hadn't lived properly unless you'd known an evisceration or two.
(When was the last time you watched a US sitcom and thought it was so perfect you hoped they wouldn't make any more episodes?) What's remarkable is how the show manages to both skewer the narrow lives and banal existence of hard-drinking, hard-smoking families without ever condescending to them.
We should all live some Alan Sugar/Shopping Channel existence, work harder, and those on benefits will have to be somehow fiscally contracted, as they have chosen to be poor.
And yet this also is true: hanging on to slight memories of an ephemeral existence is harder than it seems.
Still, for many mega-families, existence is hard.
She was from typical country folk: small farmers, good existence, a hard life - very respectable life.
"For the average Indian citizen, day-to-day existence is hard enough," he said.
At some moment in the late aughts, the existence of hard-to-categorize, ambiguous, sexual interactions warranted a new title — "the situationship".
There are eight other official languages here in South Africa, but in central Johannesburg, evidence of their existence is hard to come by.Of course, Johannesburg is only one city.
