Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pablo, bare-chested and wearing soiled black shorts, clambered up a ladder and with no preliminary sketches drew dancing goddesses across the wall of a chapel with an ease and grace that made genius look simple. The stunning close-ups of his works (pink eyes, blue breasts) provided color-conscious NBC with its best argument for color...
...hairdo and delicate, almost boyish proportions-an interesting example of an old-fashioned trademark evolving with public taste and changing times. Seldom does one see the White Rock girl in her innocent nudity. No, sir! She's enveloped in drapery, her bosom covered and a self-conscious smirk on her face. The bluenoses have obviously complained, and the company has probably ordered little White Rock to put on her underwear...
Under this bombardment, the train's former passengers have taken to flying, and the coal once carried to Oran from the mines of Colomb-Béchar is now diverted by way of Morocco. But for the prestige-conscious French, the train must chuff on. Once a week it sets forth from Colomb-Béchar, but only after two regiments of Foreign Legionnaires and Senegalese have inspected every inch of the line...
...first the patient knows why he is in the hospital, recognizes individuals. In the second stage he loses his sense of space and time, but is conscious of the loss and worries about it. In the third stage, depatterning, he no longer bothers about the lack of space-time sense and is contented just as he is. He recognizes nobody and does not care...
Spence thinks that "subliminal registration," e.g., below the threshold of consciousness, can work even without the subject's cooperation. Thus, ambitious opinion shapers of the future might possibly sell their political candidate-or breakfast food-by the supersoft-sell method of subconscious sight, flashing their slogans into living rooms under cover of a televised horse opera. Chuckles one TV executive with a conscious eye on the future: "It smacks of brainwashing, but of course it would be tempting...