Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Working on this week's main cover story about AIDS and the singles scene, Martha Smilgis discovered that many men and women were reluctant to talk about the fact that a casual affair could bring on the deadly virus. "In the bars, it's tricky to ask about AIDS," says Associate Editor Smilgis, who wrote the story. "Most people still think it's a gay disease and haven't really thought much about the problem. Your question begins a process of education...
...place on shelves crowded with explicit fiction that celebrated the new ideal of sexual behavior it had helped to inspire. Freedom, spontaneity, pleasure without guilt became the bywords of the liberated '60s and '70s, as many men and women evolved freewheeling rituals of courtship in singles bars, in casual affairs and in relationships in which the outcomes remained insouciantly negotiable...
Republicans have to be trimmer than Democrats, insists Milt, but Democrats have to be careful that they are up to the minute with their more casual style. Thus when he saw the picture of Hart in New Hampshire sporting a hairstyle that seemed 20 years old, his fingers itched to attack the mop. "How come you don't see any bald men among the top candidates?" asks the hair stylist. Good point. Baldie Ike made his mark in the military and then defeated Baldies Taft and Stevenson on his way to the White House. End of the baldie run.The barber...
...must accept certain realities about AIDS, and one of the most important is simply that condoms save lives," says Homosexual Activist Harry Britt, a member of the San Francisco board of supervisors. The Roman Catholic archdiocese lodged the strongest complaint. "America is bound and determined to make sex as casual and unsupportive as shaking hands," protests Father Miles O'Brien Riley, spokesman for the archdiocese...
...Stone, Dye found a kindred spirit who wanted Platoon's actors to experience the fatigue, frayed nerves and fear that preyed on the Viet Nam infantryman and to understand the casual brutality that often emerged. Willem Dafoe, who plays Sergeant Elias, the platoon's conscience, recalls that "we certainly did get some taste of exhaustion, frustration and confusion." Tom Berenger, who plays the soul-dead Sergeant Barnes, agrees. "We didn't even have to act. We were there...