Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enemy," it says, "is at an advanced stage of preparation, and the main force will be Cuban exiles and mercenaries." The report also singles out one American student on the island for suspicion. "He lives just below the Soviet embassy," it says, "and seems to pay more than casual attention to all activities of the embassy...
According to his own creepily cool account, before he teamed up with Toole in 1976 Lucas traveled from state to state, living out of his car, surviving on odd jobs or thefts, and randomly picking up victims. Sometimes he killed alone, sometimes with casual companions. The victims were often hitchhikers of either sex and any age or race. Some were shot, others strangled, still others stabbed. Many were mutilated...
...administrator, Kennedy was intense, but also casual about the forms-improvisational, never rigid. Eisenhower favored a formal chain of command, with orderly, predictable
Despite their casual appearance, the harpists, saxophonists, classical guitarists, and various other street musicians who play during rush hour in the Square and Government Center subway stops have their performances scheduled by a Cambridge cultural clearinghouse...
That said, Crichton manages to create a believable human framework for micromachines. Electronic Life is a casual, alphabetized guidebook, with a brief initiation into high-tech jargon (RAM, ROM, kilobyte) and arcana (magnetic fields, artificial intelligence and dedicated machines). The process is reassuring for the technophobic. "Fear of computers is normal," writes Crichton. "A certain amount of kicking and screaming is useful...