Word: offhandedly
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Some reporters wished he had found other things to do right after the press conference; they had not been able to hear the remarks. "You've got to rein in your boy," Henry Bradsher of the Washington Star told a White House staffer. "These offhand conferences just won't do." It probably is a futile plea. Nobody has been able to rein in Jimmy Carter...
Jaynes realizes that some of his theories may prove "hard to swallow." He also fears that some people will associate the book with imaginative commercial ventures like Erichvon Daniken's Chariots of the Gods rather than seeing it as a serious scholarly work. To prevent such offhand dismissal of his theory, Jaynes asked his publisher for complete control over the book's format. He chose the type style, designed the cover, and insisted on the rather ponderous title and thorough footnoting. He says the book's present appearance clearly shows he is "not trying to sell books but to contribute...
...Offhand Humor. The plot is as authentic and insubstantial as a whiff of marijuana (Screenwriter Barren is an alumnus of the Boston Phoenix and the Real Paper). One of the reporters cashes in on his underground experiences by selling a book. A beginner tries to expose a local record bootlegger. Lovers climb in and out of various beds. The new publisher takes over; one staffer is fired; another quits. The paper goes...
Director Silver (Hester Street) is a bit studied and schematic in her juxtaposition of scenes, but she is attuned to the hip, offhand humor of the Mainline's newsroom. In one sequence, a bearded interloper hurls a typewriter to the floor in a self-styled act of conceptual art, only to have a group of staffers top him by smashing up the office and punching a hole in the wall...
...rhetorical outpouring about human rights from Washington. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, angered by a hard new U.S. stand on economic, nuclear and defense issues, struggles to understand the complex personality of the evangelist in the White House. Israelis and Arabs wonder what the President means by his seemingly offhand use of heavily freighted Middle Eastern code words. Brazil's prickly military leaders-along with other authoritarian regimes in Latin America's southern cone-bristle at Washington's finger pointing. Even the studiously cautious Japanese raise a diplomatic eyebrow or two as their Premier embarks...