Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ladies' room. As he gazes into the large mirror, he dampens his hair and strokes it into place. A female attendant tosses him a towel and offers a splash of perfume to the girl preening next to him. Often Area's bathrooms are co-ed meeting grounds for casual sex or a quick snort...
...episode of HBO's new sitcom 1st & Ten opens with a shot of two comely lasses soaping themselves in a locker-room shower. Their endowments are on full display and duly noted by two football jocks ogling them from the doorway. The casual nudity may be startling to some viewers, especially since it has nothing to do with anything that follows. But for veteran watchers of cable TV series, such obligatory "skin scenes" are old hat. Their purpose is not so much titillation as information. The message: This is cable, folks, not network...
...this movie? Imagine yourself at an Adams House party, and listening the entire evening to the emphatically casual dropping of supposedly famous artsy names. This movie is hardly more subtle in its eagerness to describe Hemingway's galoshes and Proust's knowledge of South American parrots...
Computers have been playing passable chess since 1966, when M.I.T. Student Richard Greenblatt wrote a program called MacHack that trounced Hubert Dreyfus, a Berkeley philosopher who had insisted that no computer would ever beat even a ten-year-old. Today chess machines defeat most casual players, and the best programs can hold their own against all but the top grand masters...
...casual bikers might be warned not to reach for their Rollfasts. John F. Tomlinson '87, president of the association, says the new organization is "oriented toward bike road racing...