Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Past experience has shown that Harvard also has low incidences of such diseases as gonorrhea and syphilis, Wacker says. "The lower incidence of sexually transmitted diseases in general speaks to the fact that probably casual sex on a pick-up basis is not very common among the group. Otherwise we would have seen a higher level of incidence compared to the rest of the population," the director says...
...right. Readers who do not understand what the hubbub is about will leave this book little the wiser. Brodkey is obviously talented, but his skills are quirky and obsessive, perhaps more mesmerizing to him than to casual spectators. There is Innocence, for example, which contains what is probably the longest description of oral sex in the history of literature. (This story decidedly did not appear in The New Yorker.) For page after page a Harvard undergraduate named Wiley tries to bring his stubbornly unresponsive girlfriend to orgasm: "The whitish bubbling, the splash of her discontinuous physical response: those waves...
Both stages feature seating at tables on the floor as well as regular seats, and cocktail service is available at the tables. The two shows currently running include audience participation, and offer a more casual approach to theater...
...French and Chinese have proceeded cautiously in approving the abortion pill. Both countries require that it be administered in a clinic or hospital rather than at home. To prevent casual use, the French have made it no less expensive than a surgical abortion (cost: upwards of $130). The Netherlands and England are considering approval of RU 486. Meanwhile, Roussel Uclaf, its manufacturer, has contracted with the World Health Organization to distribute the pill at low cost in developing countries...
Beene can sculpt a dress with sensual simplicity or fill out a coat so that it seems to loft from the body. His rule breaking -- like putting diamonds on a plastic bracelet -- is focused, almost casual, and helps shatter stereotypes. In the fashion world, Beene has resisted and neatly refuted the caricature of Americans as the slightly slaphappy innovators of sportswear and merchandising trends. A long black wool coat from 1983, with flowing gold satin insets along its back and sleeves, constructed of curved seams, is a masterly combination of grand luxe and offhand invention, a subtle experiment in enlarging...