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Those existential speculations don't derive from the screenplay's source, an archetypal but otherwise down-to-earth 1962 novel by James Jones (who also wrote From Here to Eternity ) about the American invasion of the South Pacific island of Guadalcanal.
The film also reflects Selena's down-to-earth style, at least as described in media accounts and in such books as the unauthorized biography Selena: Como la Flor (1996), by Joe Nick Patoski, a senior editor at Texas Monthly . Selena the movie ticks off the points made in numerous profiles.
Among other things, I learned that what a middle-aged college professor thinks of as down-to-earth examples of economics in action might not always sound quite so down to earth to the ordinary college freshman, and that I had to have more examples the clientele could relate to--which means, in particular, sports . One focus group member suggested that the market for "scalped" sports tickets was a good example of supply and demand in action.
But the paper's recitation of failed events suggests a more down-to-earth explanation: $2,000 per couple to hear Neil Sedaka and Mary Wilson is stupid.
Perhaps this is related to our down-to-earth, often rather unsophisticated use of language, especially at the folk level.