Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will be assigned to the White House on Jan. 20, "the man the press saw and talked with day after day is virtually no longer visible, let alone accessible." Reporters trying to get a lead on the Cabinet appointments are reduced to watching for "a hint, a clue, a casual word from one of the interviewees or a wink from a Carter aide...
...fashionable Central Park West. It was in the famous Dakota. Of course the Dakota in Hohokus, New Jersey isn't as hard to get into as the one in New York City but we were happy there. When we got inside she tried her little best at casual chatter, pointed out the local Grand Union, the Hohokus City Hall and the beautiful road the French built after World War I to help pay of war debts--the famous "HohoChemin." She also sang the town anthem, "Hoho kus Santy's Comin' Soon." We had a good laugh over that...
...Custer, a psychiatrist with the Veterans Administration in Washington and an expert on gambling, alcohol and drug abuse: "The compulsive gamblers don't follow any pattern. The only similarity is the addiction." Custer has termed compulsive gambling a "progressive behavior disorder," and points out that whereas the casual gambler goes to the track or casino with friends, the compulsive one usually goes alone...
...doubt that the author of 4,000 of them meant it? There is a craving to these letters - an almost palpable need to reach out and touch. Taken as a whole, they constitute a ritual against loneliness, a message in a bottle repeating with a hundred only apparently casual variations, "I'm here. Are you there...
...spacey album that combines elements from electronic music, jazz, classical music, reggae, salsa, and just the slightest touch of rock and roll. Recorded with Japanese avant-garde composer and percussionist Stomu Yamashta and former Santana guitarist Michael Shrieve. Go is an extraordinarily innovative work which demands more than casual listening. Yet the heavy emphasis on electronic music--the sounds of synthesizers and the electronic instrumental effects throughout--make listening a bizarre, somewhat alienating experience...