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Word: casualness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's museums are mostly set up for academic use, and few work to draw casual visitors. For some museums, there is debate about their proper mission in the University community: tourism, teaching or research...

Author: By Shirin Sinnar, | Title: Students Rarely Frequent Museums | 1/4/1995 | See Source »

...back as 1855, he filed them in two boxes: the dad museum and the mom museum. The result of this painstaking and painful process adds up to a remarkable demonstration of Frazier's ability to write with rare, pure love and to make his feelings meaningful to casual passersby -- his readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Books of 1994 | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

...small dramatization of the merger, look at the best movie of 1994 (some critics say): Pulp Fiction, wherein professional killers engage in 1) savagely flippant violence, and 2) boyishly earnest moralism. A torrent of casual, brutal obscenity flows through discussions marked by a strange, scholastic nicety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yin and Yang, Sleaze and Moralizing | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

...last refuge of a cultural historian, and mere Beatles browsers will find as few buried treasures here as they would in Hemingway's high school journalism, Quentin Tarantino's first script or Madonna's early nudes. But as a time capsule, the set is invaluable. To eavesdrop on their casual musicianship and their ad-lib ease is to hear a hopeful teen heart, circa 1962, beating in good-rockin' four-four time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Becoming the Beatles | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...gained access to the stolen property through his work as a "casual employee" of the museum, according to Carl A. Francis, associate curator of the Mineralogical Museum...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Is Harvard Checking Employees' Records? | 12/17/1994 | See Source »

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