Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer heat, but the cultural humidity, which Ann Beattie maintains just this side of a dramatic downpour. The single break in her purposefully oppressive atmosphere occurs when John Joel plinks his sister in the side with a gun he did not know was loaded. It is the sort of casual, thoughtless act usually associated with children. But then most of Beattie's grownups, particularly her men, behave in childish ways...
...less about cars than about photography, its prodigality as a medium, its capacity to abstract and transform the materials of reality. The show's real subject is the camera's ability to extract from the banality and clutter of common experience a meaning and order unavailable to the casual eye. What come through most sharply in the photographs is an immediacy and potency of detail, an aura of enchanted concreteness radiating from the most ordinary places and things--the raw blue color of gravel, a shallow driveway, the symmetrical vacancies of parking lots, the abject curve in the necks...
Pritchett is a master of the casual apothegm. He accounts for Max Beerbohm's cultivated eccentricities by noting the "foreign strain" in his parentage: "Expatriation allows one to drop a lot of unwanted moral luggage, lets talent travel lightly and opens it to the histrionic." He speculates on the Edwardians' taste for the novels of George Meredith, for satire and high comedy: "One can see why: an age of surfeit had arrived. The lives of the upper classes were both enlivened and desiccated by what seems to have been a continuous diet of lobster and champagne-a diet...
Harvard assistant women's track coach John Babington has looked toward "next year" for the past 12 years. Completing his 13th consecutive Boston marathon in 3:08, Babington said he sees the race as an annual tradition more than anything else--"I'm strictly a casual and amateur Marathon runner," Babington said. "As a coach I would discourage any runner who put in as little training as I did." Thirty-four years old, the rookie coach started running the Marathons when he entered Harvard Law School in 1968. Although he admits he does not really enjoy the race, preferring...
...beginning, AT&T wanted us to overcome the negative emotions associated with long-distance, the bad-news phone call in the middle of the night. For years, there has been a definitely negative, uncasual quality to a lot of long-distance calling. AT&T wanted us to emphasize the casual, positive aspect: long-distance is fun, it's easy, it's cheap. Of course, we didn't want to be sentimental, we wanted to be upbeat and to get across an image kind of thing: people calling for fun; people calling for no reason...