Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Easy and casual, relations between the two rooms ebbed and flowed all year. They happened to be ebbing right around that crucial window of blocking time, and for whatever reason, we went our separate ways. By the time housing assignments were announced, we were hanging out more and hoping to end up together by chance, but the whimsical Spirit of Randomization had other plans. We landed in Eliot, and they were sent hundreds of yards away, to the nether regions of the River...
...think that the greatest example of casual, social cruelty I can imagine is laughing at a sincere love letter. It is the moral equivalent of knocking change out of the hand of a beggar: a pointed and cynical response to declared vulnerability. What prompts us to mock sentimentalism in the public sphere--what makes it morally acceptable to make fun of Celine Dion's music, for instance--is the suspicion that such music is itself a form of cynicism, a manipulation of America's overwhelming urge towards the saccharine. You get the sense that when Dion and her kind...
...problems, Talk is not completely irrelevant. The writing is good and the magazine does get big-name contributors who can get big-name celebrities to agree to interviews. And if the editors can follow up with periodic scoops, there will be casual readers who will make a point of buying it that month...
...with Yalta and Potsdam as one of history's great summits. But back in 1988, at the World Wrestling Federation's Wrestlemania IV in Atlantic City, Donald Trump met Jesse ("the Body") Ventura. The real estate parvenu was impressed by the wrestler's sense of showmanship. The two remained casual acquaintances over the years--they became pen pals and talked about golf. Eleven years later, they find themselves soulmates: each would deny Patrick J. Buchanan the Reform Party's presidential nomination. Trump is eyeing the race and has ordered up an analysis of the Reform Party's ballot-access rules...
...didn't understand why my roommates got dressed up on the first day of school when I was a first-year, having come from a laid-back, casual high school in Northern California. I had thrown on the first t-shirt and pair of jeans that were in my dresser--as I had done for my 12 other first days of school. Practically everyone else in my high school had done the same...