With a blandly dismissive anti-romanticism, the director sees through the pretenses of civility to the mediocrity, disappointment, venality, gullibility, duplicity, and boredom that pass for daily life.

NEWYORKER: The Prowler

Elephants pass through almost daily -- coming so close to your tent at night that you can hear them breathing -- and passing lions are not unheard of either.

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Over 25, 000 kg pass through it daily.

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It was natural for terms of daily life, or of government, to pass one way or the other.

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How the War in Afghanistan Depends on the Khyber Pass by Addison Wigginoriginally appeared in the Daily Reckoning.

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Is this story close enough to our own daily lives to go deeper, or does this batch of 140 characters just pass us by along with the other data of the moment?

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