Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to tell which parent was in charge on a particular day. Diana dressed the boys in baseball caps and jeans. When Charles took over, they wore proper jackets and ties and well-polished shoes. According to her biographer, Sarah Bradford, the Queen regards the sloppy mode as too casual for royal princes and has had words with Diana about it. Grandma does not share Charles and Diana's relaxed approach to molding a future King. Bradford reports that at the Balmoral royal estate in Scotland six years ago, Wills gave his groom the slip and came home early from...
...billion dollars has emerged that the trade calls "eatertainment." Theme restaurants, a combination plate of amusement park, diner, souvenir stand and museum, have become the fastest-growing segment of the restaurant industry, turning up the heat on fast feeders such as McDonald's and the segment known as casual dining, which includes such now ho-hum fern joints as Bennigan's that serve mere food and drink in a relaxed setting. This heady expansion leads to projections that eatertainment will be a $5 billion baby by the turn of the century--assuming the theme dreamers continue to titillate a fickle...
...English language is alive and ill. The very quality that enriches the vocabulary--its undiscriminating tolerance for the new--obliges dictionary editors to acknowledge such a gallimaufry of new words and phrases that even the most casual browser wants to cry havoc...
...sing like I feel," Ella Fitzgerald would say. By that casual standard, it was a wonderful life. She sang some of the best music ever written in America, and, feeling it, she sang it wonderfully. For many, indeed, she sang it definitively. "I never knew how good our songs were," Ira Gershwin once remarked, "until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them." By the time she died at home in Beverly Hills last week at 78, she had spread the treasure of her voice over thousands of songs and half a dozen generations, cutting everyone in on the wonder. There...
Away from the dining halls, Berry also concentrated on turning around the University's failing catering department. By splitting the operation into Crimson Catering and Harvard Express, the new director created a high-end catering division and a more casual, inexpensive caterer, which provides coffee and snacks for faculty receptions...