Bennett and Hytner seem to have felt, in common with many other creative professionals, that the intensive multimedia publicity business is increasingly disabling two of the most powerful tactics of narrative art: surprise and suspense.
The poets and artists felt, in common with the resident communities of political radicals, working men's circles, and conscientious objectors, a deep anger at the beginning of America's excesses and massacres in Asia.
Using sex to feel "in control" is common with sex addicts, especially with female sex addicts.
The price hasn't changed for months, he says, despite the surge in oil prices.In India, as in many countries, the government dares not allow the rising price of crude to be felt in the common man's pockets.
Although you'd walk down a grey high street in Southend and there was nothing there that you felt anything in common with, there are still great record shops that have been there since the Eighties.
Escher, the Dutch graphic artist whose mind-bending prints straddle the boundaries between art and science, once observed that he felt "more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists".
Up the hill in the Touch Wood furniture store, Mazer Iqbal, a second-generation Pakistani who rose from poverty to open his own business, only to see its windows smashed one recent weekend, said that he, too, felt little in common with the youths down the road.
The valley was once a borderless frontier for rural Croats and Slovenes who felt more in common with each other than with their capital cities. "There are still a lot of contacts between people on both sides of the river," Nikolic said.
You couldn't meet a stranger: In grocery stores and city parks and shopping malls, neighbors who months before felt nothing in common were now greeting each other with warm words, high fives, and fist bumps.
WHEN really tragic events occur, categories of people who previously didn't feel much in common can find themselves coming together in a community of pain and indignation.
Here, I'd like to see a nation where people feel more in common with each other over more than just their passport, race or religion.
