Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talk often turns at those casual affairs to matters of academic prowess and the key to the successful college interview. "I hear coming here is just as good as being on student council," a particular fellow actually said one night, and they didn't let him forget it until August...
...learn to respect them. For while they will surely be spouting Marxist slogans until the day they die. Gill and King don't take it all that seriously. And that is something you could never really glean from an album like Songs of the Free, which to the casual listener can seem almost excruciatingly pedantic. These guys actually have a sense of humor, which is a lot more than you can say about such dogged revolutionaries as the Clash. When King screams. "The girls they love to see you shoot" or "Life! It's a shame" in concert, you almost...
...being that he could escape herpes by dropping out of the bachelor life. Some middle-aged men refuse to date women under 30 in the belief that younger people are more likely to have herpes. A West Coast woman finds that having herpes gives her an excuse for avoiding casual sex. Once she acknowledges that she has the disease, nonserious suitors disappear, and "any man involved with me is really interested...
...they are high transmission risks. They sometimes have internal, hard-to-see lesions, they may be carrying the virus in their genital secretions, and a few may spread the disease via shedding from the cervix without showing any overt symptoms. For many women, the disease exacerbates their doubts about casual sex; they feel they were pushed into it by a permissive culture, then made to pay a heavy price...
...late-night effort is in a sense an extension of its late lamented magazine show Weekend (1974-79). It has the same driving forces: News President Frank and Co-Anchors Lloyd Dobyns and Linda Ellerbee, who write and perform in an amiably wry style. Overnight has a casual look and quirky curiosity, even when examining hard news. For example, a rumination on Secretary of State Alexander Haig's resignation was preceded by a report that Haig was on a list of America's best-dressed men. Nancy Reagan's birthday was noted with a clip...