Word: blase
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...barely balancing its defeats. Thirty-nine cities, towns and counties, including Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis, have enacted ordinances forbidding discrimination against homosexuals in jobs and housing, but only five of those communities have been added to the list in the past two years. The city council in supposedly blase and sophisticated New York City defeated such an ordinance in 1978. Last week the Connecticut house of representatives voted down a gay rights bill...
...hanging around with nothing to do; you're sick of studying for midterms, and it's just a blase Sunday. Well, exercise is good for you--why not take a little 26 1/2-mile...
...Revlon's line, the appeal of Passionata Pink or Pink Vivido might be clear enough. But Blase Apricot? Bergerac himself laughingly wonders, "What kind of psychological profile could you draw for the woman who buys Blase Apricot...
Brown spares us few television cliches. There is a boy becomes-a-man-amidst-the-stench-of-battle scene for each world war. The firemen's ball gets set on fire. The heroine dies jumping her horse, and other blase gems...
...questionable. One suspects it's a little of both. In any case, First Love, directed by Joan Darling--the person who brought us Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman--is probably too maudlin and sentimental to touch the hearts of many Harvard students. Most will guffaw rather than cry. The most blase will leave laughing at the film's triteness and superficiality, confident that they will never fall victim to the treacherous pitfalls of first-time romance...