Word: casuality
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Moore said the restaurant will use the outdoor seeting area behind the Holyoke Center, allowing it to be both a formal and casual dining location...
...wearing them. The accessory has come a long way from Diane Keaton's tomboy outfit in Woody Allen's 1977 film, Annie Hall. Young pop singers from Michelle Branch to Alicia Keys have adopted an '80s new-wave look that juxtaposes ties with dark punk garb or ultra-casual white tank tops. And fashion designers like Alexander McQueen have been slipping them on models since last summer. Now if they could just learn how to tie a proper Windsor knot. --By Benjamin Nugent
...continually stressed the importance of clean government and her determination to root out corruption. That's hardly surprising considering the billions of dollars that disappeared in behind-the-scenes influence peddling and cronyism during Suharto's time. There's no evidence that Taufik has done anything illegal. But his casual assumption of presidential prerogatives, his unabashed wheeling and dealing and the memory of Suharto-style backroom deals that clings to those activities have set alarm bells ringing in Jakarta. Speculation on the actions and intentions of the President's husband reminds Indonesians of the opaqueness of the Suharto...
...democratized singing. "Almost every great male icon of the art - Crosby, Sinatra, Torm?, Bennett - takes from Astaire," writes Steve Schwartz on Classical Net. "The male pop singer B.F. (before Fred) sounded something like an Irish tenor. ... The limitations of Astaire's voice forced him to find another way - deceptively casual, never oversold, and at home with the American vernacular. Astaire moved the 'scene' of the singer from the center of the great hall to just across the table, in effect replacing the Minstrel Boy with Ordinary Guy, U.S. version." Whereas Louis Armstrong abstracted a song's lyrics into a plangent...
Bowie's clothes have always matched his music: when he was an effete balladeer, he favored flowing dresses; when he sang soul, he wore sharp white shirts. Now he dresses for comfort, not spectacle, lounging around in agnes b. suits like a hip hedge-fund manager on casual Friday. His songwriting feels both off the rack and a bit sloppy. He needs to work harder on old-fashioned pop hooks and chords...