Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could not make his 40th move within the required two hours and lost to Kasparov. This outcome provided some grim satisfaction to purists; one of the reforms initiated by Kasparov's and Short's P.C.A. was to condense playing time in order to make championship chess more palatable to casual spectators...
...Haydenville, Massachusetts, Barbara Allen and Robin Juris are providing their biological children Hannah, 7, and Cody, 3, with the rural environment lacking in their former home in Oakland, California. They inseminated each other using the sperm of casual friends and took extensive, though not uncommon, legal precautions to avoid facing a custody dispute. "In our hearts we trusted these men," says Allen, "but we also wrote up a contract." The children have met their biological fathers; that word, however, is never used. Says Allen: "They are donors. They don't have a role that would approximate the real role...
...Madonna and Jackson retreated to some celebrity inner sanctum with security befitting a visiting Pope, but the young garage-band superstars -- Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Spin Doctors -- were as ingenuous and casual as their audience. Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was mistaken for a nobody until he produced his all- access laminated pass for an effusively apologetic security guard. When his wife Courtney Love appeared with their infant daughter, she pleaded with the paparazzi, "Hold it, my baby needs some psychic space." By the count of three, however, the child had apparently recuperated, and rock-star wife and rock-star baby posed...
...description of a conversation between him and Dowling about politics was misleading. Voss has alleged that Dowling told him pointedly that he would vote for David Duke for president. The report said that Voss "elicited Dowling's views on the subject." Voss said he had merely asked, in a casual way, who Dowling might vote for in the 1992 presidential race...
...asked 30 young ballplayers, in casual conversations about curve balls and batting averages, if they owned or had access to roller blades and a hockey stick. The response was unanimously in the affirmative, though I got a few polite answers of "yes." Most were shocked at my question. "You've been at Harvard too long, coach," said a former second baseman. "Having all that stuff is a given around here...