Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feminist heroine -- brave, bright, spirited, sassy and clearly overqualified for her secretarial job. She is also -- what else? -- hopelessly in love with her boss, Ed Leland (Michael Douglas). At once distracted and self-absorbed, he can't see why she wants a promotion, and he's a little too casual about their love affair. On the first score he has a point: the job she aspires to is spying. In Berlin. During World War II. Maybe she is a bit too spunky for her own good. But not for the good of SHINING THROUGH. She's a terrific character...
...following seems to be a satisfactory compromise: First, change any team names that use inherently prejudiced terms, like "Redskins." Learn what symbols are too sacred for casual use, and replace them. Productive dialogue with people from Native cultures will allow teams to find other symbols that could represent the Indians without degrading them...
That question is nearly always answered with the same casual assumption: the U.S., of course. Having dumped $4 billion into the country since 1980, the U.S. has become El Salvador's cash cow. A major cutback of funds from Washington was once as unthinkable as a slash in Soviet aid to Cuba; now it may also be just as inevitable. Ambassador William Walker tries to convince Salvadorans that American support for their country is unwavering. Yet he acknowledges, "I don't know any more than they do what's going to happen up on Capitol Hill." Given the economic climate...
While Tolstaya is a caustic chronicler of perpetual yearning and casual cruelty, she can also be wildly funny, capturing the lunatic humor that leavens these hardscrabble lives. Lyonechka, a rarely employed writer who has already thrown away one newspaper job by introducing an unwelcome sardonic note to the obituary column, lasts no longer at a women's magazine after he starts a recipe with the words "Let's be frank -- there ain't nothing...
...Jerry Brown I saw at the Kennedy School last month was not the flake I had come to expect from press reports. The Jerry Brown I saw seemed witty, impassioned, spontaneous, casual, eloquent, inspiring, sarcastic, serious, rebellious, astute, and--above all-honest. What a refreshing change from the pre-packaged, poll-driven politicians we have come to expect and even admire...