Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first really big role?is that she has brought this same feeling of inevitability even to relatively minor parts. In The Deer Hunter she had only a few important scenes, but it requires a wrenching effort now to imagine another actress playing Linda, Christopher Walken's shy girlfriend. Casual television viewers, who cared not at all that she had made her reputation as a stage actress at the Yale School of Drama and at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in New York City, were struck by her portrayal of a gentile woman married to a Jew among the haunted faces...
...tailing motorists and notes under the windshield wipers. Recalls the motorist: "It was like driving around with a sign on your head." The big, blue '78 Checker and white '79 Volvo now in the driveway carry impersonal numbers. The old green and white vanity plates hang at casual angles on a small shed at one end of Irving's swimming pool...
...museum colleagues to call him "the Pope" and caused him to be described as "a man who could make enemies without moving a single muscle of his face." He used his position to campaign tirelessly against the hostility of laymen who condemned modern art after "ten seconds of casual, prejudiced study." The intellectual possibilities of art interested him as much as the aesthetic qualities. He is said to have once rejected a canvas by saying, "It's too pretty; I don't trust it." His insistence on creating departments at MOMA for architecture, film, photography, and commercial...
...societies are held together by an immensely intricate webbing of mutual obligation (and perhaps by an equal and opposite network of betrayal). The system starts with nods and smiles and wordless understandings; it elaborates itself interminably through certain assumptions, casual promises, oral agreements, laborious plans, written contracts and formal vows, and ends finally in that thunderous atavism, the solemn oath: the promise with a jolt of the sacred in it, the upraised hand, the divinity standing by to witness...
...Mayor Jane Byrne, sports her pink, gold and blue metallic sandals to official events, including a recent reception for President Reagan. Says she: "I wear them to work and out for the evening. I have a metallic purse and earrings, and some gold-and-white bloomers that can be casual or dressy. I like the look because it's shiny, kind of Hollywoodish. It makes you feel like a star...