Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rural areas, where 80% of the people still live, the routine is more casual and relaxed than in the city, but also far more spartan. Privacy, though still at a premium, is easier. It is in the countryside, too, where many of China's traditional values persist: sons are valued over daughters, and ancestor worship, though rapidly diminishing, survives. A peasant, if his family desires, can be given an old-style funeral procession, including mourning garments for the relatives-even though the party has tried to encourage simple cremations...
...accessory than a necessity-sales are strong. "People aren't buying them because they're freezing," says Rochelle Toas, a salesclerk at Los Angeles' Potpourri boutique. "They are buying them because they're cute." In Atlanta, Donald Campbell, regional manager of the six Casual Corner shops in the area, complains that the peppy new socks "don't last on the floor more than a few days...
Sullivan's narrative does not make for casual reading. Despite its easygoing approach, Continents in Motion is a serious book. It is a disturbing one as well, for it ends on as deep a note of mystery as it begins. The theories of continental drift explain how the continents and the oceans that separate them were formed. But those theories can only hint at probable changes to come. The earth does not exist in a steady state; the forces that gave the planet its present topography are still at work. How they will reshape the earth or rearrange...
...White House staff has become accustomed to a new kind of presidential daughter. Susan Ford, 17, declines to alter her casual style. After classes, she changes from her skirt-and-socks school uniform into baggy white painters' pants with a Charlie Chaplin fit and an equally ill-fitting plaid shirt. Her third-floor world burgeons with plants and needlework (she made patchwork quilts of heirloom quality for special friends this Christmas) and her new hobby, photography, for which White House Photographer David Kennerly gives professional advice. She is cautioned against making demands on the domestic staff, so when...
...casual eye, the tiny (50-sq.-mi.) Italian island of Pantelleria has little to recommend it. Halfway between Sicily and North Africa, it has no beaches, no good harbors, no scenic little coves and no vegetation to speak of. Its one town looks like a slum-clearance project, and its 8,240 people are among the poorest in Italy. Volcanic springs, more like oversized tea kettles than proper Ve-suviuses, gurgle and smolder in the interior and, from shore to barren shore, there is not a drop of water fit to drink. Water, like almost all the island...