Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There he painted scenes of the Old West in a brawny and fluid style reminiscent of Thomas Hart Benton. As a sculptor he produced bronzes of cowboys, Indians, bucking horses and stampeding cattle. The casual eye is reminded of the work of Frederic Remington; the more discerning see the energy and muscular humanism of the Renaissance statues. In Harry Jackson (Abrams; 308 pages; $125) Author-Editors Larry Pointer and Donald Goddard sample Jackson's abstract work and offer a generous selection of his realism along with a biography of one of the mavericks of American...
...they never were before: the lushly cataclysmic plot development that history could once absorb (even to the extent of permitting two "world wars") will no longer do. When the world has so armed itself as to make the use of those arms a stroke of global cancellation, then the casual "Let's talk about it" takes on a ticking urgency. Che sarà sarà is not an intelligent policy this side of the Last...
Against this seething background, the ill-timed and almost casual comments of President Ronald Reagan, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State Alexander Haig about how NATO would use nuclear weapons in Europe, about how a "limited" nuclear war could be fought, were incendiary. Even though the remarks were only restatements of long-held
...European standards, Americans often seem inappropriately dressed. When vacationing, says the author, they "wear clothes suitable for a trip to a disaster area, or for a visit to a zoo or a museum: comfortable, casual, brightly colored, relatively cheap: not calculated to arouse envy or pick up dirt." At home, what the author deems "regional speech" controls fashion. New Englanders still favor the conservative and tweedy British look. The white dress embellished with large flowers reigns in the South as an announcement that one can afford a laundress. Midwestern men favor suits the color of plowed cornfields. The Western states...
...arms race have a genuine concern. The Israeli anxiety following the U.S. decision to sell Saudi Arabia the AW ACS planes and support systems is real. The Soviets are not as familiar as American moviegoers with the charm and warmth of the man in the White House. Careless and casual talk about war is about their only measure...