Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here was in a history class where the professor invited undergraduates to join his graduate section. About six chose to come, and not only did we get his helpful paper comments and intelligent discussions, we also came to know a professor face-to-face in a setting more casual than a seminar...
...questing, tormented main character is Julia, a successful architect, divorced and, at 41, pregnant for the first time, by a casual lover. Her marriage broke up some years before because she refused to have children, fearing that a streak of brutality might surface in her own nature. Her mother disappeared when she was nine, and after that her charming, beloved father beat her repeatedly, abuse that stopped just short of being openly sexual...
With your report on pork-barrel deals [CONGRESS, July 17], you ran a photograph showing large cone-shaped structures with white plumes pouring from the top. The casual reader may believe the plumes are smoke, noxious chemicals or radioactive by-products of nuclear power. In fact, the structures are environmentally safe cooling towers, not nuclear reactors. They cool water and produce a relatively harmless plume at the exhaust when the ambient air is colder and denser than the mist released by the evaporative process. RON WRIGHT, Project Manager Ceramic Cooling Tower Co. Fort Worth, Texas...
...After-Party, the Hotel, and the female quartet Xscape, with a new album called Off the Hook. Love songs aren't enough for these groups; they sing lust songs, exploring sweaty emotions rather than sweet ones. Their songs aren't designed to shock listeners, like Madonna's; instead, in casual language they turn common sexual experience and longing into music. "My mom asks me, 'Why do y'all sing about so much sex?'" says Jodeci's Dalvin (all the group's members go by their first name or nickname), whose father is a church pastor. "I tell...
...many people really watched it, besides television critics and really rabid journalists? Not many. Which brings me to one of my main criticisms of this list--where are the influential shows? The ones with large audiences that are influencing lots of people? C'mon, 90210 and "Melrose Place" advocate casual sex, teen sex, infidelity, homosexuality and just about everything else. Lots of people watch those shows, but apparently not members of the Media Research Center...