Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mexico City Correspondent Bernard Diederich spoke with the wife of Guerrilla Maximiliano Gomez, who told him of a recent visit to Cuba to see her husband. Then she introduced him to a five-year-old -boy, the son of another guerrilla who had been shot by police. "The casual way she spoke of death," notes Diederich, "reflects just how fanatically committed to their cause these people...
...party and then trips and falls and walks around with food in her hair. That ice-maiden stuff is a big defense-it's protection. It keeps a lot of Shriners and creeps away." She greets friends with a breezy "How's your ass anyway?" In casual conversation she may burp, giggle uncontrollably and then tell about the time at Westlake School when she and several girls tried to sing Happy Birthday on one protracted belch...
...Molotov cocktail. She is one of the new sisterhood-like Novelist Joan Didion and Poet Anne Sexton-who seem to have sprung full-grown from condemned-property dollhouses. Hyper-observant, dangerously polite waifs, they look at the world with large, bruised eyes and gently whisper of loneliness, emptiness and casual cruelty...
...teammates' attitude toward his kicking may not be so casual in a tight situation, but for the moment he says, "They'd rather have me than not have...
...cold." He advises devotees to avoid smoking while sampling, but admits that a mellow root beer enhances the flavor of a good cigar. "To see the delicacy of a light, joyous celery tonic smothered by a cloud of gray smoke," Shorris laments, "is depressing to even the most casual connoisseur...