Word: casuality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gazing at the miles of neighboring urban sprawl and walking through the TV treadmills of Desilu and Warner's, the casual visitor to Hollywood will find it difficult to believe that it was once the habitat of Cro-Magnon man. His name was Harry Cohn, president and production head at Columbia Studios, and he flourished during the movies' Pleistocene epoch-circa A.D. 1930-58-subsisting on the backbones of executives and the egos of movie stars. When he died in 1958, more than 2,000 people turned out for his funeral, prompting Red Skelton to compose the most...
...financial charlatan (undeserved) haunted his career. All his life he was candid to the point of impudence and imprudence and maintained a totally un-Victorian intolerance of humbug and hypocrisy. His pen dripped venom. He once endowed an opponent with "the crabbed malice of a maundering witch." Justifying his casual inconsistency on an issue in Parliament, he bluntly said: "We came here for fame." When friends congratulated him on his first accession to the prime ministership, Disraeli said cynically: "Yes, I've climbed to the top of the greasy pole...
...each bet, then to a halfpot--where a bet can equal half the money on the table--and finally to pot limit. In pot limit games, which start with a quarter on the table, several hundred dollars can change hands in one evening. Burns had moved beyond the casual carders. He was hooked...
CLAO tries to preserve a normal lawyer-client relationship. No paupers oath is required; financial eligibility is determined in casual conversation. Clients fill out no forms; they discuss their cases and the staff member takes notes on the traditional yellow pad. One student works on each case until its final disposition, sometimes doing 100 to 150 hours of research...
These two books clearly belong in the second category. In the U.S., writes Playwright Arthur Miller in his foreword, short stories are "ranked more or less as casual things at the lower end of the scale of magnitude, like bungalows in the architectural world." Then why bother? Miller supplies his own answer: The short story is a form in which a writer can be as concise as his subject requires him to be. For a playwright, he says, the short story offers "a vessel for those feelings which, unelaborated, are truer, and yet for one reason or another...