She proposed an Emily's List-style programme to help people in ordinary jobs win nominations, and highlighted proposals to decentralise power and increase community engagement, including her idea for communities to help draw up council budgets.
In a video showing the 3-D structure of one of these biofilms, the ordinary bacteria win, and the hyperswarmers have practically gone extinct — confirming that the ability to make microfilms is more important to the bacteria's survival than being speedier consumers of food.
Last year, a poem she composed, "An Ordinary Prison," won the PEN American Center's prison-writing competition.
The surprise now may be that Ordinary People won best picture and the Oscar for best director, when Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull was among its rivals.
A couple of years later, at the mostly white high school he attended, in Ithaca, New York, he was usually the only black student in the courses he took, and that fact alone made his teachers and classmates treat him as exceptional: even his ordinary efforts won him a sort of astonished admiration.
From our point of view, there really weren't a lot of movies being made with guys our age, until Tim Hutton did Ordinary People, won the Academy Award, and all that, and then all of the sudden movies were being made about young people again.
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As we fight to protect our communities and the climate, we all need to remember that, when we use unconventional tactics, ordinary people can win against giants.
Having won the part of Timothy Hutton's girlfriend in Robert Redford's Oscar-winning Ordinary People in 1980, she was herself nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar the following year for her portrayal of the early-20th-century actress Evelyn Nesbit in Ragtime.
The Yankees, however, have made winning ordinary.
