Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have never used canned fruit and the supposedly expert taste that detected canned and the supposedly discriminating eye that saw the banana was wrong again. We don't put bananas, canned or otherwise, in our fresh fruit. Perhaps there is not a great deal of difference to the casual diner between fresh fruit and canned fruit (although we think there is), but one expects more from a "restaurant reviewer" doesn't one? And I do think it is grossly unfair to your readers to have a review about food written by someone who can't even recognize a pickle...
...Macunaima bathes in a magic fountain which turns him white--and into another actor. This white actor goes through several changes of hairstyle, which as far as I can tell have nothing to do with either plot or political significance, and which typify the director's casual attitude to details. During several crowd scenes some of the extras look more interested in the camera than in the antics of Macunaima, and when Macunaima dies, bloodily, in a stream, a rubber hose can dimly be seen pumping the "blood" into the water...
...Crash-injury experts estimate that auto deaths could be reduced by at least one-third if everybody used seat belts all the time. Only a minority of drivers do so now. Further, tough federal standards should be enacted for the licensing of drivers. Some states and localities are inexcusably casual in granting licenses to obvious incompetents. Children of 14, mental defectives, drug addicts and even people collecting aid-to-the-blind payments can get licenses in many states. Most drivers are tested only once in a lifetime, under ideal conditions at low speeds. Undoubtedly a federal law should require periodic...
...fear of death and disease often underlay the Kaufman style. Son of an overprotective mother whose first boy died in infancy, Kaufman grew up to be a devout hypochondriac. He ate oatmeal nearly every day of his life; he hated casual human contact and touching doorknobs. One of his many mistresses recalls that when she once innocently tasted his soup in a restaurant, Kaufman promptly ordered another bowl. When she asked him how he could kiss her, Kaufman replied, "Well, Miss S., your tasting my soup was one kind of risk. My kissing you was another. Let's concentrate...
...Problems and difficulties exist for Samuel Heather, Rogers' "child of the century." But so do miraculously facile solutions. Happiness does not depend on the sweaty pursuit of knowledge. Heather simply acquires his erudition and wisdom from Rogers, a professor of English at Penn State, and wears it with casual eccentricity. Scenes, values and fortunes change as easily as channels on a TV set remotely controlled from a comfortable couch...