Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although combat action was in short supply, the random, almost casual violence all around them disturbed the journalists. Says ABC's Barrie Dunsmore: "You can be shot in the hotel coffee shop as easily as in the bush." In the past two weeks, a CBS crew was robbed by guerrillas armed with automatic weapons; an ABC reporter had a gun pointed at his head in downtown San Salvador by a man who then simply drove away; and NBC Cameraman Hermes Munoz was held up by masked men as he left San Vicente. When Munoz protested that...
That is the premise of Death in a Tenured Position, the latest mystery by Amanda Cross. For the uninitiated. Cross novels feature the redoubtable Kate Fansler, a tenured 16th-century English literature professor at a New York City university, much like Columbia. Fortyish, WASPish, with a casual marriage to an assistant district attorney and a prodigious capacity for alcohol. Fansler moonlights as an academic sleuth. Leaving details like fingerprints and forensics to the police. Fansler sleuths by intuition and cunning. She does not carry...
...especially triumphs in its portrayal of the relationship between Eva and her granddaughter Jeannie. Unlike Jeannie's minor role in Olsen's novella. Joyce Eliason and Alex Lytie, authors of the screenplay, developed the granddaughter's character fully, allowing her to unearth Eva's "other" personality: that of a casual, free-spirited, and highly intellectual woman. The authors successfully show the mutual infatuation of relationships that span generations...
...silence settled over the bus. McLaughlin sat close to the front, thinking and speaking softly to assistant coach Terry O'Connor. Soon both were asleep. Further back, point guard Calvin Dixon, studied quietly, making casual conversation with Robert Taylor, who sat across the aisle. Donald Fleming had two books in his lap, an economics text and a well-worn copy of the Holy Bible...
...case, the vast stores of Renaissance paintings in this city, defy casual study. The Uffizi Gallery contains one of Italy's largest collections of 14th and 15th century works--Botticini, Perugino Girlandaio, Albartonelli, Lippi, Uccello, and Roselli. No one hurries in the Uffizi, and some stand before a single painting, such as Botticelli's Pallade a il Centauro, for hours. Pallade, golden-haired and crowned with ivy, holds a centaur by the hair. She looks at his face with vivid sorrow; he hangs his head dolefully, mourning his entrapment with the lovely, longing adolescent...