Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, as union officials trade charges and brand each other as "liars," the University has taken a casual stance toward the unfair labor practice. "It's a crazy position--the union hasn't got a shot at winning, so it's not a very big deal," one Harvard official said...
Standing in his Grays common room, Bing Huang points out his roommates' new "Animal House" poster--showing dozens of actors waving their middle fingers--and gestures in disbelief. "Americans are so casual about everything," he says. "In China, we have posters to criticize, but nothing like this...
...regatta is advertised as casual, fun and low-key, but this year may prove otherwise for several reasons. Three thousand competitors and 720 boats will pass under the bridges, but the climax of the regatta will be late in the afternoon, when the West German Olympic Men's Eight challenges our own National Team crew in a match that never took place in Moscow this summer. The United States Olympic Committee has supplied transportation and living expenses for the Olympians, and Charlie Altecruze '80, who was spending the year studying in Germany, flew in for the weekend...
...whose devices of staging and lighting Hopper constantly invoked. Hopper's rooms and landscapes have a constant air of expectancy. When empty, they seem to have been just vacated by actors; when they are peopled, the figures are posed and lit as though by a director, and their casual "ordinariness," their lack of ostentatious drama, is itself a charade. (One of Levin's more interesting suggestions is that one of Hopper's best-known images, the row of empty-windowed shops raked by horizontal light in Early Sunday Morning, 1930, was probably derived from a Broadway theater...
...that she's always feral. In fact, Harrison is as fundamentally chatty as Nora Ephron. In this collection she seems to be chatting over morning coffee with her best Greenwich Village friend. Her prose is wicked conversation, full of anecdotes, observations, comic asides, and devastatingly sensible reasoning. But the casual tone conceals a penetrating seriousness. Despite her glibness Barbara Grizzuti Harrison is always driving home a larger point...