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...fixing a cup of coffee is a private matter. From years of practice, I’ve learned to furtively palm sweetener packets and hold them tightly together, tearing them as one, so it’s impossible for a casual observer to tell how many I actually use. Why? Well, I use a lot. And I mean...
...It’s a very casual setting,” she said. “People can come, eat cookies if they want, drink some tea, and then just socialize with each other, talk about science and anything else that’s interesting...
When Günter Wallraff sprayed his face with dark paint and put on a black curly wig and dark contact lenses, he discovered how it felt to be black in Germany today. Sometimes he was subjected to thinly disguised or casual racism. Other times people were openly hostile to him. On one occasion, he even felt threatened...
Smith is at her parodic peak when depicting the characters’ cultural misunderstandings, and their casual racism. In a flashback where the pair are lost in a tank, waiting out a war, Samad and Archie’s talk inevitably turns to girls, specifically Samad’s unborn betrothed. This amuses Archie. “‘Where I come from,’ said Archie, ‘a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her.’ ‘Where you come from it is customary to boil...
...beer or wine, reflecting the proportion of students who are of legal drinking age. This encourages hosts to devote money to non-alcoholic drinks and food, which is precisely what the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services and other health professionals recommend in order to ensure that casual alcohol consumption does not turn into unhealthful binge drinking...