Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author's evident flexibility of diction is another such pleasure. Atwood can range with ease from the academically highbrow to the high-school casual. Even this talent comes under self-satire from time to time, as in "Writing the Male Character...
Ironically the Senate version already allows for several exemptions to small employers with the so-called "kindness amendment." An employer not previously convicted of hiring illegal immigrants would have an option of voluntary compliance. Businesses which employ casual or undocumented labor would also be exempt...
...further omission is anything by Anthony Burgess, though the author coyly hints that one of his 27 novels might round off the list nicely. If so, Dark Lady is not the one. The book is too casual and sketchy, with a string of improbable, scurrilously farcical episodes serving for a plot. It measures up to only one of the criteria that Burgess applies in 99 Novels: the novelists' capacity to create "human beings whom we accept as living creatures...
Like the recent Eddie and the Cruisers, Hard To Hold tries to convey the difficulties of the road life but only through casual rhetoric. The plot becomes more like a pick up line at each turn--you know, we really have a lot in common, she tells Springfield about her longshoreman father. "My father's an orthodontist," he says. "Hooray for the working class...
...dancers began in casual white shirts and slacks. The set was bright neon-orange with a stage spotted with futuristic trees. The men slowly strutted around exchanging jokes and talk. Their surroundings seem to be a city seen as a jungle with the dancers giving us the undercurrents of the urban experience. While their dancing was technically clean, sharp and powerful, what was most impressive was that though the dancing demanded incredible concentration, both physical and mental, all six men created an exuberant rapport with the audience. As the music intensified and the rhythm sped up, the dancers' steps increased...