Word: casualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jeff and the Fresh Prince were all staples of the '80s music arena. And although we never knew who actually made up the Miami Sound Machine, we at least knew a little bit about the band just from the name. In those days, if George Michael was singing, the casual listener generally knew...
...together. To play is simple. Listen closely to everything you and your friends say. If you're quick enough, you'll pick out odd phrases that put genuine alternative band names--like Perfect Thyroid, Infamous Gnomosexuals, Accidental Groove and Burning Spear--to shame. Our list of outtakes from purely casual speech includes classics like Extraneous Stomach, Sneaky Bucket, Vomitous Swan and, my personal favorite, El Nino Lips...
...summer vacation meant the opportunity to spend quality time with some of my closest friends from back home, many of whom I hadn't seen since last September. But what I was looking forward to the most was our casual, somewhat childish attitudes towards each other. Contrary to life at Harvard, back home we all felt comfortable making stupid conversation and resorting to humor of the lowest common denominator. And, after spending a year in an environment of such intellectualism and personal growth, it would be a nice change of pace simply to regress...
...result is a shrewd portrait, sly, casual yet palpably authentic, of the principal ways members of any minority try to respond to an uncomprehending world. Each learns something useful from the other, and we, incidentally, learn something believable and warming about modern Native life and manners. Smoke Signals could be more complex and compelling narratively, but there's a sweet freshness in its voice that's worth heeding...
...split it. The result was an almost perfect basketball player, a man with skills that few other players of comparable physical ability could match and that eventually would set him apart at the championship level. For that was when the professional game changed from a somewhat casual full-court game that showcased pure natural ability to a fierce, defensively driven half-court game in which pure athletic ability was of a more limited advantage and the discipline and completeness of a player's skills were equally important. As such, Jordan is a reminder to us of something desperately undervalued...