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Word: casualities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tale of female independence veers into romance. Leo awakens Anna to feelings she has never known before: "I became with him, finally, a passionate person." Besotted with her new lover, Anna does not notice that her daughter is being exposed to some unfamiliar experiences. When Leo stays ! over, casual nudity becomes the order of the night. On one occasion, the child comes to their bed while they are making love. On another, when Anna is away at work, Molly watches Leo take a shower; what follows is either a brief, innocent mistake or an instance of child molesting, depending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Custody the Good Mother | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...other AIDS developments in the U.S. last week riled civil rights and homosexual groups. Despite the lack of any evidence that AIDS can be transmitted by casual contact, the Justice Department ruled that an employer who genuinely fears a spread of contagion can fire an AIDS victim without violating his federal civil rights. Snapped a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union: "The decision is nothing more than a pretext for discrimination." And in California, an initiative that could prohibit AIDS victims from attending or teaching school and working in restaurants was certified for placement on the November ballot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gloom in the Palais Des Congres | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...surprisingly low-tech cluster of buildings in a suburban office park. A sign out front says THE KERNER COMPANY --a deception intended, company officials say, to keep away youngsters who used to rummage through the garbage looking for cast-off Darth Vaders and E.T.s. The ambiance is casual; blue jeans and running shoes are ubiquitous, and a family spirit prevails. "It's a group effort rather than a search for personal glory," says George Joblove, who joined ILM last year to help develop a computer-graphics department. "There's a nice sense of community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lights! Camera! Special Effects! | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

...work and family obligation, the Baby Boomers have relentlessly pursued happiness as an end in itself. Few found it in the dizzying array of self-help movements like est or cults like Synanon and Scientology, which proliferated like weeds in the 1970s. Nor was the sexual revolution the answer. "Casual encounters and open sex left most Baby Boomers with a sense of emptiness, of personal isolation and loneliness," says University of Chicago Psychologist Froma Walsh. The spread of herpes and AIDS in the mid-'80s further diminished wandering lust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Growing Pains At 40 | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...South African investments. The packet also includes a letter from Joan T. Bok urging my participation in the election, and suggesting that election people interested in pressing a particular policy would drastically change the nature of the Board of Overseers (presumably for the worse) and might lead to the "casual" resolution of the vexing moral and financial problems posed by Harvard's South African investments. Ms. Bok also urges my careful consideration of the candidates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overseers | 4/24/1986 | See Source »

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