Word: casual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over the years, Bennett's activities led to the creation of neighborhood sports teams, regular fairs and picnics and an informal job-referral service for her growing brood of local children. But most important were the casual get-togethers at Bennett's home. There the youngsters could talk openly about their hopes and fears, knowing that someone would listen to them and understand. "I found that being a volunteer was priceless," says Bennett in her quiet, matter-of-fact way. "We have no paid staff or anything. It's like an organization of club members." On her mantel are scores...
What all these chefs share with the thousands of young people who have migrated to Seattle is an appreciation of the city's livable pace and casual life-style and its nearness to sea and mountains. In exchange, they seem willing to endure weather reports that read, "Rain, followed by showers" (a prediction for six days in a row in March). But perhaps it is the cloudy skies that in the end attract visitors to the great indoors of Seattle's innovative restaurants. After all, if you can't walk around the waterfront or ferry to the outlying islands...
...wasn't easy trying to play against two varsity hockey players. When I see Hartje and Young from the stands, I see casual efficiency; they make the game look easy. From up close, their deft, quick movements are something to watch, even if it is only street hockey...
...house, like all his finest designs, is not a monolith but a suggestive collection of smaller pieces, here a kind of lyrical single-family mountain village consisting of separate stucco boxes for living room, guest room, master bedroom and kitchen. The forms are stark, but Predock's scheme -- a casual zigzag arrangement that follows the terrain, roof lines that vary from flat to peaked to pyramidal, a restrained polychrome palette -- mitigates austerity. Gravitas without menace...
...guarantee the professor a safe path through the hazards of an individual student's interpretation. "There are all sorts of approaches, but first of all you have to try to do it as straight as possible. Although these are matters of subjectivity, you cannot joke about it or be casual about it or be dismissive of it," Glazer says...