Word: offhand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington has still not recovered from the defeat of the foreign aid bill in the Senate two weeks ago. In its unexpectedness and offhand manner, the event was unique in modern congressional annals. In this reconstruction. TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil tells how it happened...
...Morris' characters now seem to coalesce in the splendid single person of a wiry old coot named Floyd Warner. He is the hero of the author's latest novel, a terse, bright fable with all the Morris trademarks-the oblique wit, the offhand revelation, the unfailing eye for what Wallace Stevens called "the real that wrenches, the quick that's wry." Stubbornly out of touch with this or any other time, living in exile in a California trailer court, Floyd has got up to the age of 82 on a diet of hard-fried eggs and potatoes...
Christine reacts to Antoine's offhand marital defection with pert and maddening insouciance. Antoine himself makes the move to his Oriental lady friend with only slightly more care than he would take in selecting a record. It is as if in rendering his memoirs on film, Truffaut has made them progressively more accessible and less intimate, sparing both his audience and himself the challenge and occasional pain of real recall...
...military string ensemble pumped out the dansant tunes in the ballroom at Buckingham Palace as Master Farceur Noel Coward, 70, was dubbed a knight of the realm. In a simple, almost offhand ceremony, the entertainer knelt on a small stool and took a sword tap on each shoulder ("very lightly, thank goodness," he said later) from Queen Elizabeth II, who wore street clothes. "The Queen was absolutely charming," Coward told newsmen. "She always is. I've known her since she was a little girl." Then Sir Noel strolled off with a lady on each arm, wearing a rakishly tilted...