Word: blase
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Young heterosexual men seem to be the most blase about the disease. "Men just can't get it through their skulls that they could have caught AIDS from a woman," says Michael Brown, an AIDS specialist in Long Beach, Calif. "Men have a strong denial going on," comments Mark Saginor, assistant clinical professor of medicine at UCLA. " 'Somebody else will get it, but not me.' Or, 'She's so nice. There is no way she can have...
...film like Sunday, Bloody Sunday being made now. Its sexually ambivalent central character would clearly be a villain. Five years ago, Beyond Therapy, an amiable stage comedy about bisexuals, was well received in London, but audiences at screenings of the forthcoming movie version are uneasy with it. Even to blase sophisticates, bisexuality is becoming ethically questionable...
...moment of truth arrives. A runner leads another novice and me into a room with a booming echo, from which the whole building is likely to hear me. I try to act blase before the other actor and the director, who in a friendly manner explains what the play is about and what is happening in the scene we are to read from. He asks the dreaded question: "Which of you would like to go first...
...this familiar format, Hughes creates edge, surprise and romance. Blane and Andie's first chat, conducted on their school computer terminals, is a lovely '80s twist on meeting cute. Blane's snooty friend Steff (James Spader) could be a tired stereotype, but with his all-year tan, his hip-blase voice and his view of high school as a "career," Steff becomes a recognizable character of any age: upscale slime in embryo...
Neither do any of us. How horrible to think that the routinization of modern life has penetrated even into the hospital delivery ward and that babies become like so many home appliances rolling off the assembly line, one after another. Blase orderlies careen around the maternity ward sorting the newborns--different colors sometimes, but basically interchangeable...