Word: casualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time. The presence of sin is unmistakable--even the name of the town, New Canaan, has Biblical implications--but no one really bears the blame. Many of the characters' actions seem harmless enough until they're in too deep to turn around. Ben and Janey's affair is so casual and matter-of-fact that it's easy to forget the pain they are causing others, and even themselves...
Harrington's introduction immediately gives an intriguing definition of the term placebo, which, in addition to being Latin for "I shall please," actually originates in the opening phrase of the Catholic vespers for the dead. This irony alone is enough to sustain the casual reader's curiosity through Harrington's brief historical summary of placebo usage and experimentation that also introduces each of the contributing essayists, who range from Howard Spiro of the Yale School of Medicine to University of California neurobiology professor Howard L. Fields...
Bicknell said that after the Hollis shower incident, she "dressed in casual clothes" and tried to access all the first-year dorms without identification or a card...
Once it looked as though Superchunk were doomed never to make an entire album where the casual listener could remember each individual song well enough afterward to, say, name it or state with conviction that it was one of 11 songs as opposed to three. Now we know they're working on it, and that listening to the slow ascent will be worth...
...Eight Ball; for whatever reason, most people seem to doubt your prophetic powers. I'll start off with an easy question, a no-brainer that even the most casual sports fan might answer...