Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PLAY is more than just a gimmick. Mrozek expands on the absurd situation with dialogue that is eerie because of its casual tone of day-to-day realism. In the short time we spend with them, we develop definite feelings about Mr. I and Mr. II. Through their comments, even the Hand acquires a distinct personality ("Somebody's fingernails could use a good cleaning, if I may venture an opinion," comments...
...level they promise, he will have to find his own method of shaping his plays, somewhere in between the formal structure of traditional theater and the intentional formlessness of the Theater of the Absurd. In the meantime, his plays deserve attention purely for their cleverly absurd situations and their casual, flippant dialogue, which combine to produce Mrozek's special brand of ironic humor...
...deviously "procure" a copy of Journey to Ixtlan, nor did I "paste" one together. Even the most casual reading of my Penthouse article reveals that the greater portion of it has little to do with Journey to Ixtlan. In the few instances where there is redundancy between the article I wrote and Ixtlan, it occurred naturally as a consequence of the fact that during his stay at Irvine, Mr. Castaneda spoke freely of the material that subsequently appeared in the book Journey to Ixtlan...
Nixon is ideologically committed to the freer markets of Phase III, but politically he is under intense fire. His economic chief, George Shultz, still defends a policy of casual controls and promises that price relief is just around the corner. He expects food prices to peak in early summer and ease downward for the rest of the year. But another Nixon adviser, Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, is urging tighter controls. Nixon may be tempted to impose a freeze before Congress forces...
...city, the steel-and-glass giant. Film projections flash on high-rise panel backdrops and form skyscraper spectaculars. At their shadowy base laps the treacherous asphalt tide of the urban jungle. This translates into dance numbers with the slashing tempi of switchblades, though none are shown or used. Hookers, casual muggings and cops as cynical as the wink of an eye breeze across the stage, less in menace than in roguish mockery. Never mind if any of this is strictly true; it matches the urban mythos of the moment, and provides the musical comedy brass to go with the plot...