Word: casuality
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Moffat's lyrical confessions have always damned himself as much anyone, but on The Red Thread, he seems most interested in damning the disappointing comedowns inherent in love. On "Infrared," a song about concealing the warm residue of casual sex, Moffat concludes, "At least we know we're fuckable / At least we're sated and we're tired / At least the bedroom stinks / And we know we're desired." Those lyrics also belie the new lyricism that defines this album. We see it in the repetition of "at least." More than ever before, the lyrics rhyme and revolve around choruses...
...March brings the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, an event that appeals to even casual sports observers for a healthy reason: We like to see the little guys...
...Once the worst-kept secret in sport, doping has become so common that many fans now see it as inevitable. But behind the casual use of drugs designed to improve athletic performance is a tragedy carefully hidden from view: the transformation of many athletes into drug addicts. Nobody knows how many develop dependencies that continue after their careers end. But the numbers at risk are probably larger than fans or even athletes realize...
Virtual visitation cannot replace real visits, Ashton's parents both say, and experts agree. Yale University Child Study Center faculty member and attorney David Rosen calls videoconferencing "a great idea" as a supplement to real visits, but he also sees a danger. With such technology, parents might become "more casual" about moving away from their children, he says. Cynthia Kaplan, a child psychologist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., says parenting "is much more about being there," but for parents who can't be there, she suggests that courts appoint therapists to identify visitation methods most helpful to each child...
...also consult generational differences. Whites of Byrd's generation might sometimes have said "n-----" in the past without any consciously malevolent intent. Land sakes, the word was just sort of casual, conversational, descriptive. Nothing ugly meant. It has often been noted that Harry Truman used the word, which was part of his native Missouri's culture, you might say. And Truman was the man who integrated the armed forces...