Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After an hour of casual drinking, mingling and nametag reading, the party began in earnest when we rose, glasses in hand, to sing the newly written "Cambridge Day." Cambridge Day just happens to fall on Saint Patrick's Day and so, to the tune of "When Irish Eyes are Smiling," a feeble chorus rose...
...earlier film reappears this time as the gloomy patron of a whore house ("It takes a good house to make a happy home," he explains lamely to Antoine). Most pathetic of all, though, is Antoine's extracurricular lover, a speechless Japanese girl whose expression of devotion is the almost casual remark. "If I commit suicide with anyone, I'd like it to be with...
...interview several years ago, Mailer made a casual remark which he repeats several times throughout the essay. It would not be accepted casually today. "The prime responsibility of a woman," Norman Mailer said years ago and is still repeating, "probably is to be on earth long enough to find the best mate for herself, and conceive children who will improve the species...
...surgery that lifted her upper eyelids but did nothing for her spirit. Hypnosis, yoga, cell implants and love affairs helped her morale, but by the end of one liaison Luciana realized, "I had really become very plain looking-almost nothing on my face, nothing on my nails, the most casual clothes." After another year during which she was "so bored I used to remove the hairs from my legs, one by one, with tweezers," Luciana went back to Rome to face facts and her mirror: beauty, after all, was her business. She became a fashion coordinator and beauty consultant...
Said the Star: "We should have learned to suspect the casual statistic from the bitter history of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who transformed the numbers game into an impure art. The charge is justified. The plea is guilty. The pledge is to resharpen the instinct for skepticism that is the first requirement of responsible journalism...