Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reshaped, is not in the least reluctant to discuss it. She has been known to close her TV program by cheerily confiding, "Well, next week I'm going to have a complete retread." Once, when she appeared on camera looking younger and trimmer than usual, she announced that casual sit-down chats with guest stars would be out of the question for the next few days. "I've had three operations on my face and one on my stomach," Dercy says, "and I'll have 20 if necessary. Wherever I droop, I want it taken...
...permissiveness in which they were raised too literally. Sociologists William Simon and John Gagnon suggest: "We have become, as a nation, a population of pill-takers. Both the actual miracle and the myth of modern medicine have made the use of drugs highly legitimate. Our children, in being casual about drugs, far from being in revolt against an older generation, may in fact be acknowledging how influential a model that generation was." Add to that the painful adjustments that every adolescent must endure?the physical and emotional challenges of puberty, the hazard-strewn search for self-discovery...
...Faculty members for all these committees except the CRR have already been selected. Except for the CRR. it seems that student elections for these committees may be completed someday. Their problem, of course, will be to establish their legitimacy given the casual way in which they were compiled...
...chick. Pianist Joe Grady (Beatty) plays gigs at a downtown bar, trying to raise the fare to New York and a fresh start. Fran (Taylor) is a chorine waiting for her paramour to obtain a divorce and altar her situation. In a matter of moments, Fran and Joe become casual lovers playing for time-and losing. He keeps dicing away his savings; Mr. Right fails to come to her rescue on schedule. While they run in place, Gilroy furnishes them with crapped-out dialogue: "I've met some nuts in my time, but you take the cake," "Never darken...
Most of last year I felt like I was always being rejected by men-not just men I knew and liked, but by all men, however casual or even nonexistent my contact with them. I remember it made me feel terrible about myself when some guy I'd been watching in class didn't notice me and come talk to me, or, if he did, that he didn't seem to want to know me better. In retrospect it seems really weird-I guess I was going around offering myself up totally to any encounter I had with men, whatever...