Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confidence Claire Bloom felt about herself at 14 is now, seven years later, shared by a majority of the critics on both sides of the Atlantic. Even those who did not like Charles Chaplin's self-conscious new film, Limelight, showered Claire, his leading lady, with such adjectives as "poignant," "delightful," "brilliant," "touching," "charming," "perfect." This week in London, Claire is winding up the second month of a triumphant Romeo and Juliet at the historic Old Vic theater. She has been hailed as the most enchanting Juliet in memory...
Dave Brubeck plays in a kind of daze of his own: he can never remember exactly what he did during his finest solos ("When I'm playing my best I never know my fingers are there"). But as a man who is conscious of his subconscious, he has decided that his best flights of fancy occur only when he can "get through...
Among the 800 guests attending the fashionable wedding of U.S. Heiress Virginia Fortune Ryan and Britain's Lord Ogilvy (see MILESTONES) was South Pacific Star Mary Martin. The Texas-born wedding guest delighted the fashion-conscious by showing up in a fur coat, a hole-in-the-crown fur headpiece, an ear-warming hood anchored by a pearl choker...
...trouble seemed to be television's unblinking eye. Explained a spokesman, Sir Robert Knox: "Those moments of coronation will demand all the Queen's concentration. Under direct television she would be acutely conscious of every movement. She might feel the need to touch her face or mop her brow and would know that every tiny gesture . . . was being relayed everywhere." Even worse: "One could expect that this very sacred ceremony would be watched by people in a bar, for instance...
Lyons himself mainly rubs shoulders with the highly paid, highly skilled workers in his huge plant. No detail escapes his cost-conscious eye. When a foreman built himself a partitioned office for his paper work, Lyons tore it down. "A foreman should be on the floor," he said, "pushing blokes to do things." Added Lyons: "If I let him have his office, he'll soon want a girl to do typing for him. Next it will be another girl to assist the first one; before you knew where you were, you'd have six people in each department...