Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demote her to a reporter. If KMBC had been languishing in its old position. Repologle could have asked Craft to follow a certain fashion he thought would make her more appealing and therefore boost ratings. No one raised any uproar when CBS told Dan Rather to don a casual sweater for the same purpose...
...program ended its run in 1960 after six years, Lauren Chapin, now 38, lost a lot more than a dad who could cope wisely with any domestic crisis. Out of work and spurned by her alcoholic mother, Chapin spent the next 15 years in a twilight zone of casual sex, drugs and jail for forgery. Then, one epochal day, she walked into the Eagle's Nest church in Irvine, Calif. She recalls, "When the pastor said, 'Now if anybody here wants to give their life to the Lord, please stand up and come to the altar...
...other, more enticing attractions besides health. "Meeting people goes with it," says Dale Price, 29, a restaurateur in Arlington, Va., who spends a couple of hours daily playing racquet ball, pumping iron and jumping rope. "No one's hitting on someone, like in singles bars. The meeting is casual and easygoing." At some of the fancier coed clubs, the appeal is strongly sexual, and less serious members spend more time cruising poolside or matching sweatbands with leg warmers than they do working out. The laid-back atmosphere of the clubs and the sheer physicality of sleek, scantily clad bodies...
...erotic melodrama In the Realm of the Senses (1976), Japanese Writer-Director Nagisa Oshima is portraying-for Western viewers and his own Westernized countrymen-the social compulsions that once made Japan unique, and uniquely feared. In the earlier film, a prostitute and the husband of a brothel owner become casual lovers and then, following the logic of exclusive devotion, swoon into a passion whose fulfillment is violent death. In Merry Christmas, the viewer is thrown al once into the sadomasochistic excess of Oriental machismo. Here, every gesture of discipline, compassion, rage and honor is expressed by the blade...
...fact that a state judge could seem almost casual about rape shows that beneath the new surface sensitivity, many of the cultural prejudices linger. "What we do in our society, whether it's in photography, films or language, is devalue sex," says Psychologist Groth. "and that gives the message that sex can become a weapon to degrade somebody." Such moral carelessness is what has made the U.S. violent in private, as well as in public. ?By Maureen Dowd...