Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the vehemence of discontented undergraduates that was revealed in a survey last year, the changes are nearly invisible at first glance to the casual Loker-goer...
...want to make it a place where people feel like they can put their feet up and kick back, " he said. A few areas feature new, couch-like seats to foster this casual atmosphere...
...Exley (Random House; 255 pages; $23). Yardley makes no inflated claims on behalf of his subject: "Fred was a professional writer, although only one of his three books [A Fan's Notes] will long remain in print." But Exley (1929-1992) intensely interested and exasperated his readers, relatives, friends, casual acquaintances and the victims of his odd-hours telephone monologues, among whom Yardley and this reviewer number themselves. "What a piece of work he was!" Yardley writes, and then convincingly sets forth the evidence...
...world of casual Fridays, how's a photographer supposed to make a hard-nosed guy look footloose and fancy-free? Remove his shoes, of course. Magazine photo shoots have become like Buddhist temples: no shoes allowed. Not since Kennedy (triumphantly barefoot on the beach) defeated Nixon (wading through sand in brogans) has the naked foot been so bold. And the symbolism? The feet are now the windows of men's soles. Shoes are too pedestrian, too confining, too predictable. These fellows are so confident, they don't need footgear. All power; no loafers. Moguls can affect a Gandhi-like purity...
...proper form of salutation in cyberspace." Yardley answered, jokingly, "Dear Mr. Kinsley: This is the proper form of salutation in Washington.") The same informality applies to dress, which in this world--where style is set by barely socialized young computer geeks--has moved beyond the studied informality of "business casual" to truly casual. Inside the Washington Beltway, meanwhile, people still swim through swamplike summer heat and humidity wearing dark wool suits and damp white shirts, their air supply constricted by a tight Windsor knot...