Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, sexual activity for many is still tinged with guilt due to personal upbringing or ingrained value systems. Those uncomfortable with their bodies or their sexuality may ultimately find that when it comes down to it, they are unable to discuss sex openly. Sex, especially casual sexual encounters, is often still something that occurs literally--and figuratively--in the dark...
...afterward "the war continued on and off like a chronic disease." He had passed his university exams when the North won its victory and the Americans flew away, and therefore, as a suspect intellectual, he was sentenced to a re-education camp. Brutality in the camp was casual and causeless; what was learned in addition to parroted Marxist self-criticism was fear, hunger and aching homesickness. Jade and the others trapped rats for their guards' suppers and stayed alive by holding back some of the meat...
Throughout the film Marcello encounters characters in an increasingly declining moral climate. All of these people reject any sort of self-analysis and simply spend their time at parties and gatherings, escaping from life with alcohol and casual sex. Even moments of conversational insight are lost on such a crowd. One woman declares during an informal party. "I believe that if we live intensely, in spiritual fulfillment, every minute is worth a year and every year we get younger!" Her flippantly-made remark is quickly laughed off: "An oracle! An alcoholic oracle!" Marcello seems to stop searching for fulfillment, rather...
Certainly the tax question hits a raw nerve. Presidential adviser Bruce Lindsey, a former Arkansas lawyer designated to field inquiries about Whitewater, angrily implies that TIME wants to write "a story that the Clintons are tax cheats." (Wrong: any underpayment could have been the result of excessively casual bookkeeping or following bad advice.) Lindsey also brandishes a folder containing copies of canceled checks that he says document all the Clintons' tax deductions related to Whitewater, which he insists are legitimate. But he refuses to make any public, complaining that the press would only report such information wrongly. The White House...
What difference does it all make anyway? The amounts of money involved are small. The possibility of legal penalties is smaller still, since any underpayment may well have been inadvertent, resulting largely from what even Lindsey concedes was at times casual bookkeeping. The political embarrassment to the White House will be great if a President who has asked many Americans to pay higher taxes can be shown to have underpaid his own. But the penalty in loss of public trust if that revelation is forced out of an unwilling and obfuscating White House could be the greatest...