Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incidentally, stands for Throneberry, the first baffling circumstance in last week's bizarre comeback story of a baseball bat that hit the losing home run. Wood is not a casual concern to ballplayers. Why a .353 hitter like Brett would lumber along with a Marvelous Marv Throneberry model (lifetime .237) is the sort of paradox that, scientists say, has trees talking to themselves. With two men out and one runner on base in the top of the ninth inning, the New York Yankees leading the Royals, 4-3, Brett took up his gooey cudgel and went out to meet...
...designers, speaks intensely about "getting down to the essence of shapelessness, formlessness and colorlessness." At first glance, her men's and women's clothes for Comme des Garçons (the name means "like the boys" and was chosen by Kawakubo for both its lilt and its casual defiance of traditional gender stereotypes) resemble items from a thrift shop at the far corner of Macbeth's blasted heath. Nonetheless, they have an ease that confounds traditional expectations of elegance...
Actually, the heat may now shift from Baker to Casey. TIME has learned that, as rumored, Casey did indeed set up a political intelligence-gathering apparatus for the Reagan campaign. But it was not simply a casual use of retired military officers asked to stay alert for any U.S. aircraft moves that might signal the Reagan camp that Carter was about to gain the freedom of the U.S. embassy hostages in Iran-the "October surprise" that Reagan's political aides feared. Instead, cooperative former agents of both the FBI and the CIA were used to gather political information from...
...have heard it coming or guessed or lucked out, but whatever, the freewheeling, free-form sound that critics are calling the New Music slips neatly into Bowie's own new groove. If it is casual and a little cool, a little anonymous and a touch technocratic, then it must be New Music and Let's Dance. Talking about the album, Bowie can sound almost evangelistic, like Billy Graham on a crusade. He speaks of "positive music, something that has an inward glow to it, something that still has something to say but is more than the general kind of nihilistic...
...atmospherics" even when he loses in the fine print. At press conferences, reporters hesitate to appear too fractious at pinning him down, which has hitherto made for softer questioning. No one wants to return to the abrasiveness of the recent past. But the press defaults on its job when casual, inexact presidential explanations and televised staged events are not balanced by tougher-minded reporting...