Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that impedes individual efforts to move ahead in society . . ." He acknowledged the "terrible problem with race and racism," adding that "the evil of slavery has left a long legacy." But the core of the speech was law and order. It bristled with words like "indulgence and self-gratification . . . glamourized casual sex and drug...
...Administrations Perot has embraced, he was closest to Richard Nixon's. He was on the phone to the Nixon White House several times a week in 1970 and 1971. Sometimes the subject was casual, such as imploring a White House staffer not to eat on the plane so he could dine with Perot and his wife. Other times it was serious, such as agreeing to the Administration's request that he shore up Wall Street by taking over a nearly bankrupt brokerage...
...television set had seen the amateur videotape made by a witness on the night of March 3, 1991, when, after a high-speed chase, King was forced out of his car and encircled by police. The 81-second video recorded what happened next: a danse macabre of casual, almost studied, violence. King, writhing on the pavement, was kicked by his uniformed assailants, jolted with a stun gun and hit with nightsticks 56 times...
While some student politicians say they will not let their lives be determined by "the new rules," others say they have learned a lesson from this year's election campaign: be careful about everything, from classes to clubs, finances, friends and even casual acquaintances...
These spasms of violence form the somber theme of Jazz, but most of the novel consists of riffs and variations. Different voices materialize, sometimes disembodied, sometimes belonging to casual onlookers or to the principal characters themselves. The narrative glides between the present and the past, to the rural Virginia of the 1880s, where Joe and Violet met and from which they eventually migrated to the magical place they call the City...