Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marsden," offer you a glass of sherry on arrival, even in some cases like you to wear your academic gown to tutorials--but at the same time be prepared to have you dropping in at all hours of day and night in a way. that Harvard professors, with casual attitudes to first names but rigid ones to office hours, would find quite intolerable. The same student who will don a tuxedo for formal dinner parties and acquiesce in the "sub-fusc" of 3-piece suit, bow-tie, white shirt and gown that Oxford students are required to wear for Finals...
...that never seemed to be very close. Two daughters--Joey (Mary Beth Hurt), the father's favorite, and Renata (Diane Keaton), the mother's protoge--display tension and jealousy even thicker than blood, as it were. A third daughter, in turn, has drawn away from the family, retaining only casual ties that shield her from real emotional involvement. Almost every sentence between these characters is either a painful expression of guilt, or an even more trying repression of feelings the family cannot even talk about...
...complete with cushioned corners and a taut canvas mat. After a few more boxers weigh in on the thigh-high Detecto scale off to the side of the ring, the M.C. and three judges take their seats at a long table on the bandstand. A bell rings, and the casual visitor is startled to see the first contestants. Five-year-old Shawn Serface and five-year-old Dan Casarez are in their corners having their faces smeared with Vaseline to reduce the chance of cuts. Their hands are wrapped in gauze and placed inside huge (16 oz.) boxing gloves. Shawn...
...film opens with Woody walking down the Central Park side of Fifth Avenue, in his familiar rumpled jacket, corduroy pants, nondescript hat, discussing his jokes. It's all very casual. Woody has a lot of ideas, he doesn't try to put in a message or say something, he doesn't tailor his material to the audience because everyone has different tastes. So he simply gets up there, says what he thinks is funny, and everyone laughs. Well, don't buy it. Allen hates improvisations with a passion. He needs to be in control, and from the beginning...
...years--impress the city voters. Most of this success, granted, is traceable to Carey's singular inability to make a favorable personal impression on anyone outside the range of third cousin: with a Dukakis-like reputation for brusqueness and tactlessness, Carey simply doesn't score many points with the casual voter or party worker. Despite his impressive accomplishments--lobbying for federal aid to the city, lowering the state income tax and eliminating a billion-dollar budget deficit--Carey projects coldness, aloofness, insensitivity. Aside from occasional forays back to the wilds of forgotten Brooklyn, where he doesn't mind stumping amidst...