Word: casualities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...teaching film at Babson College. Feeling disconnected from the world of cinema after quitting Babson, Kleiler began the organization as a showcase for locally produced films, particularly shorts, which were going unappreciated in the Boston community. Kleiler had previously shown films in his living room, and liked the casual environment and discussion such a format provided...
...pervasive spy scandal was an embarrassment for an Administration that has proclaimed its security consciousness and advocated wider use of lie- detector tests among federal employees to protect secrets at home. Administration officials, and the State Department in particular, displayed a curiously casual attitude toward the vulnerability of its embassies to Communist snooping...
Another man, tall and neatly dressed, said he lost a large check and could not afford to stay in his apartment. The story may be true, and it may not be. In either case, it protected his dignity. He was working daily through a casual labor agency, saving money to return to the mainstream of society. This is more difficult than it sounds on improper food and scant sleep. He scorned the "bag people" around him. No, he wasn't one of them...
Heineken, the most popular import, went for a more casual approach with: "Come to think of it, I'll have a Heineken." Nonchalance notwithstanding, this ad wasn't very visually exciting, featuring a drop of water climbing up the side of a bottle. Don't the Heineken people realize that you can put poodle urine in a bottle, chill it, spray it with water, and watch a little droplet of H2O do exactly the same thing? I finally realized that European countries, who in general make fun of American beer, don't always export their best brew...
...also, from the outset, much possessed by death. Warhol's multiple- image disasters of the early '60s based on news photos of fatal car wrecks are suffused with dread and compassion beneath their icily casual surface. Such works looked amazingly raw, frank and direct when they were made. More than 20 years later, they still...