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...High School Hey Let's Have a Party Award: to a laid-back Lowellian who argues on his campaign leaflet that "the Council should be a normal student club that's fun to be a part of and whose major priority is doing good for the University. It's in this spirit that I hope to become a member...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Campaign Kudos | 10/10/1984 | See Source »

Friends described 20-year-old Neumann as cheerful, outgoing and laid-back, but said he had been depressed for several days before leaving for New York for the weekend...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: Adams House Sophomore Reported Dead in N.Y. | 3/22/1984 | See Source »

...company's laid-back Californian managerial style is also going. Morgan began regular staff meetings with his senior executives. Last week he announced a total reorganization of the company with the aim of reducing corporate bureaucracy. "A lot of what Morgan has done is just fairly standard business basics," says Arthur Gemmell, vice president for administration. "We just somehow became a $2 billion company without any of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Zinger of Silicon Valley | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...holding," she says politely. To help illustrate her way of holding, a few of the actress's chums, including Teri Garr, Virginia Mayo, Jaye P. Morgan, Rose Marie and Shelley Winters showed up to film part of the video. For the plumpish Winters, even Reynolds' laid-back style of lard burning prompted a display of distress. "Shelley is a dramatic actress," shrugs Reynolds. "She agonizes over everything." -By Guy D. Garcia

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 5, 1983 | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...cynical and defiantly out of place on the comics page of 710 newspapers, G.B. Trudeau's laid-back communards provided a daily recipe for coping with the '70s. The reclusive Trudeau scourged Viet Nam, Watergate, the hostage crisis and every political superstar from Henry Kissinger to Jerry Brown to Elizabeth Taylor regularly and acutely enough to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, as well as a sizable cult following. A year ago, Trudeau gave his strip a sabbatical and set to work bringing the gang from Walden Commune to Broadway. It turns out to have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Soon to Be a Minor Sitcom | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

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