Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the first liners were on the sidelines, but a casual observer would hardly have known it from the performance. The Crimson fencing team overwhelmed inexperienced Dartmouth, 19-8, yesterday...
...casual visitor, Northbrook, Ill., is just another quiet bedroom community on the outskirts of Chicago. To the 27,000 citizens who live there, it has always been the busy, bristling "Speed-Skating Capital of America." Until recently there may have been some doubters of that heady claim. Not now. Not after two of the town's favorite daughters, Anne Henning and Dianne Holum, skated off with gold medals in the 1972 Winter Games. Indeed, the local Chamber of Commerce has already begun to engrave its stationery with a new slogan: "Speed-Skating Capital of the World...
...about your bad marriages. Robert (Michael Caine) is a successful London architect wedded-or perhaps welded-to an aging spitfire named Zee (Elizabeth Taylor). Zee has a shape like a brioche and an armor-piercing tongue she uses to lash Robert into line. Robert loves it. He flaunts his casual affairs so that she can drown him in venom. Hatred, in fact, is the single sign of life in their relationship...
...some moments of wit in the film, it's as if half of them are there by pure accident. Nowhere is there evidence that any effort was made to sort out the questions of purpose and theme that the film inevitably raises. Dealing might have been turned into a casual parody of the counter-culture and its discontents, if its promise had been carried through. The dialogue is just one-step removed from inanity as Peter--played with a certain noncommittal grace by Robert F. Lyons--tells Susan, "I think (smile) we're getting to be pretty heavy dudes," while...
...possibility of that. For a roommate she draws a grim little trollop named Biscuit Besqueth, who talks baby talk to the oaf she is trying to railroad to the altar. Down by the pool, pale Fortune's batty advances are repelled with casual, callous disdain by the glistening sun worshipers. The author has mastered all the sledgehammer nuances of brutalizing speech: the deadening obscenities, the tag lines from talk shows, the dreary threats and boasts...