Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...list of influential yummies includes Concepcion Campa, a 41-year-old biochemist who runs the Finlay Institute, where she helped develop a new meningitis vaccine. She serves on the Politburo along with Abel Prieto, 42, whose casual long hair belies his importance as head of the Cuban Writers and Artists Union. At the communist newspaper Juventud Rebelde, the 35-year-old director Jesus Martinez has tried to inject a livelier style for its young readers...
...winks range from the casual and occasional (network newswomen appearing as themselves on Murphy Brown) to the deadpan crypto-real (on Seinfeld, comedian Jerry Seinfeld plays a comedian named Jerry, and in one episode he makes a Seinfeldish TV pilot) to the relentlessly ironic (David Letterman satirizing his program, his genre, the entire medium). Letterman will appear as himself next month on The Larry Sanders Show, which is Garry Shandling's spot-on comedy about a fictitious late-night network talk program called The Larry Sanders Show. In the episode, Sanders is beaten out by Letterman for an award, then...
...After much negotiation, De Klerk agreed to talk at his office in Pretoria. During the actual interview, he was outwardly relaxed, chain-smoking and joking about golf. For his part, Mandela consented to an even less formal face-to-face at his home in suburban Johannesburg. Dressed in a casual Harvard sweatshirt, Mandela graciously met TIME's interviewers in his driveway, and later took orders for tea and coffee...
...spent most of his time since as an editor at U.S. News & World Report. Gergen was a weak editor who often showed up late for meetings and preferred long, drawn-out sessions, sometimes late at night, at which he sought to forge impossible consensus on story ideas. His casual management style led in part to his replacement in 1988, when he became editor-at-large...
...being the monolithic Communist empire, and instead turned out to be the insidious dictators of small nations. While in high school, we basked in the glow of corporatism; life never felt much more dire than a Saturday-afternoon detention. Then drugs stopped being cool as crack hit the scene. Casual sex became an even bigger taboo in the age of AIDS...