Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wieland sees Tannhäuser as a harried misfit in a world of rigid conventions. Dressed in a black cloak (while the other minstrels wear brown), he moves among stiff, almost mechanized people of the court. Preparing for the crucial song contest in the second act-usually staged with casual confusion-uniformly dressed men and women march into the hall in stiff military style. But the orgiastic Venusberg scene, set in flowing concentric circles of light, is heavily sensual: the ballet flings itself into bumps and grinds that rival the old Minsky...
Even then, Willie had a style of his own. The long hours of rolling a rubber ball with his father had taught him the spectacular "breadbasket" catch that still thrills fans in the Polo Grounds. With his hands held low, the big glove deceptively casual somewhere around his belt, he grabbed fly balls and got them away fast-flinging them in with a whipping sidearm motion...
Another President of the U.S., Ulysses S. Grant, once observed that the game of golf looked like good exercise, but he asked, "What's the little white ball for?" Dwight Eisenhower, Sam Snead and about 4,000,000 other American golfers could have told him. To the casual eye, golf can seem deceptively undramatic. Golfers do not run or jump or kick or pounce or pound or shoot off firearms. Their play seems unhurried, gentlemanly, almost oldfashioned. Yet, in the pursuit of the little white ball, men find an extraordinary challenge to muscle and mind, the test of skill...
...some European capitals the casual attitude of the U.S. toward convertibility is criticized as lack of a policy...
...North Carolina hills and crashed Hollywood 13 years ago. Preening her finery, she allowed: "Men are necessary, definitely not evil." Trusting to her lawyers' discretion, Ava supposed that her divorce will be "on the usual grounds" (i.e., mental cruelty). Once free of each other, she and Frankie, like casual room mates, will simply pack up and go their own ways. The agreement: "He'll take what he has, and I'll take what I have...