Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...invitation said casual, although the occasion was anything but: dinner at the media moguls' summit, an annual gathering at which financier Herb Allen played host at his Sun Valley digs. Nobuyuki Idei was late and tired, and since he was still wearing a suit, he looked like the carbon-copy Japanese manager that Hollywood had taken to the cleaners in recent years. So the Sony Corp. president doffed his jacket and donned a Men in Black T shirt for his big entrance. "Just a little marketing gimmick," jokes Idei. "But the guests congratulated us." Idei got hoots of approval...
...aggression on a domestic scale, as Phillip'sa frustration, hostile for all its blindness, seethes at something that can't be explained or denied. Suspicions and confusion arise as if muddled foreign policy with the involvement of an equestrian doctor (Zachary Shrier '99) whose "unconventional" methods include all too casual relations with the patent...
...form of Ilana Kurshan's Harriet, sister to Sylvia. Her mole like searching head and wide eyes cast light on the otherwise dour proceedings, while providing a kind of insider's guide to the marriage. At the same time, though, even Kurshan acquires a police-witness-feel in her casual chat with a gumshoe Hyman. Young Lee '99, as Phillip's boss whose pet project is adding a spiffy annex to the New York Harvard Club, reaches similar comic heights with dead-on self-importance but, too, flounders when trying to tap into the play's underlying texture...
...Night Stand charts the effects of a casual infidelity on the life and marriage of a commercial director, admirably portrayed by Wesley Snipes. Although it lapses towards the end, it is better than most Hollywood fare in dealing with its provocative subject matter. The film attempts to address the issues of adultery and loss intelligently, and doesn't make the mistake of sensationalizing the interracial relationships (Snipes cheats on his Asian-American wife with a white woman) at its center. However it is far from equal to Vegas, or Figgis' earlier films Internal Affairs and the lesser-known noir confection...
...helm seemed inconceivable, like Johnson's Dictionary without Dr. Samuel Johnson. For what mother and daughter remarkably accomplished was to filter a vast array of information through a personal style. Irma Rombauer's subtitle for the original 1931 Joy was A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat. Her text justified this advertisement. Here was the author on serving alcohol to guests: "Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use your imagination." This advice, offered two years before the repeal of Prohibition...