These are not ladies who exercise casually, but rather women who compete on the dance floor, do 100 mile bike rides in the Rockies and think it's fun to race up Mt. Diablo in Northern California.
The war in Vietnam taught the United States that military force is a very blunt instrument, and that exercising it casually can backfire horribly.
"Anything weird about acting in sex scenes with your husband?" Paquin, the consummate professional, tries to play off these questions as casually as possible, clearly exercising every bit of inner strength to keep from laughing, crying, screaming or doing some combination of all three.
They do not exercise this power casually, since they and their friends lose pay when the mine doesn't work.
On the day that I visited this fall, dozens of young, casually dressed staffers, many sitting on exercise balls, were lined up at long rows of tables, hunched over Macs.
"It's not going to be enough to casually say, 'Go for a walk.'" Exercise, if it's to be medicinal in depression treatments, will have to be monitored, he said, so it can't be shrugged off.
The film isn't heavy-handed in that respect -- it casually scores points with the idea that age is no excuse for not exercising and that exercise is a secret to remaining active and vital.
To casually permit this surveillance — with the American public having no idea that the executive branch is now exercising this power — fundamentally shifts power between the individual and the state, and it repudiates constitutional principles governing search, seizure and privacy.
