Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...GIVE A DARN WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS). He disdains intellectual showboating, describing his own tyrannosaurus as a "media specimen," valuable mainly because it will bring the fang-and-claw set into the museum to see really important stuff, like duckbills tending their offspring. His manner is casual and laconic, which fits with the scraggly beard, the sneakers and the bush hat. But when a volunteer presents some fossils he has gathered, Horner handles them attentively. Then he peers from under his domed brow, and through a veil of smoke rising from the cigarette at the corner of his mouth...
Wilson, a tall, lanky scholar with a disarmingly casual manner, responded with dismay. He argued forcefully that many critics did not bother to read all of Sociobiology, which did not junk free will and environmental influences but only modified them. "On the basis of objective evidence," he wrote, "the truth appears to lie somewhere in between, closer to the environmentalist than to the genetic pole...
...casual cook will be intrigued by The Foods of Vietnam (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; $35), especially now that good Vietnamese restaurants have spread across the country. But Nicole Routhier's handsome book presents a difficulty with ingredients, which are hard to come by except in coastal urban areas...
Because they are in the unusual position of being a nationally known band that still plays local clubs, O-Positive is free of the reputation and "sound" which burden so many mainstream groups--they can sport a casual disregard for the pop music establishment, while unashamedly accepting its rewards. "We just play what we like," Herlihy says. "We dont try to write songs for anyone else...
Instead of helping the casual user, current attempts to discourage drug use infringe upon workers' rights and ignore the realities of addiction. Current policy also actually encourages the distribution and use of more potent and dangerous drugs...