Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Worthing, played by David Javerbaum, was perhaps the worst afflicted. Although he seemed to be admirably suited to the role by virtue of a rather innocent, angelic aspect (red cheeks and curly flaxen hair) he did not appear to be quite comfortable in his depiction of amiable stupidity. His casual attitude was somewhat forced; his smile just a little fatuous. And one could have wished that he had not struck quite so many classical poses...
Four weeks in Cambridge, and I have already learnt more about a person's crazed anatomy and multiple neuroses than was perhaps required. The induction started early, with one lecturer salivating over Freud and immersing his class in the symbolism of some gripping sexual depravities. Then, in casual wanderings around campus, deep Oedipal lusts drifted in and out of overheard conversation. Am I normal? Don't I partake of psychological trauma? By now the worries have settled in. Full neurosis must be around the corner...
Visually, the production blends an authentic '30s Art Deco look with wry hints of updating. Wager was lucky in being able to cast John P. Wintergreen, the vacuous presidential nominee, with actor Gary Beach, who bears a more than casual resemblance to the young Ronald Reagan. There is also an eerie familiarity to the Supreme Court Justices as depicted in giant caricature masks (one is black and another female, emphatically not reality in 1931), and an oblique gay inflection has been wrung out of one bit of dialogue. But most of the performers make no headline reference -- the dim Vice...
Centrella certainly sounds casual about the case, possibly because this kind of pitch dark mystery is nothing new to him. He worked on the still-unsolved Boston Strangler Case and gets calls just about every day from police officers all over the country responding to his a.p.b...
...casual visitor, the chill, choppy waters of Prince William Sound show little evidence of the disaster that struck on Good Friday 1989. Nearly 11 million gal. of crude oil poured from a gash in the grounded tanker Exxon Valdez that day, forming a slick that eventually reached into the Gulf of Alaska and nearly to the Shumagin Islands, about 965 km (600 miles) away. More than 1,930 km (1,200 miles) of coastline was fouled; commercial and subsistence fishing were halted; populations of bald eagles, seabirds, otters and other animals plummeted; and at least 35 archaeological sites were sullied...