Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cruel, not thin as a rail, witty, and effeminate. He does what he does well, but it isn't what he should do. Roger Zim looks the part of the Drum Major who woos Marie, and he has a marvelously deep voice, but his braggadocio is too much a conscious parody of Anthony Quinn or the Marlboro Man; it draws laughs for that reason, but it is not right...
...Senate seat occupied by liberal Democrat Lee Metcalf, 55, maintains stoutly that "the rights of the people are being taken away" by Washington. Though Montana has elected only one Republican Senator in 60 years, the Governor strikes a responsive chord among the state's inflation-conscious cattlemen and lumbermen by demanding cutbacks in federal spending. Potentially, however, the most profitable issue for Babcock is the junior Senator's disagreement with the Johnson Administration's Viet Nam policy. While Metcalf advocates that the U.S. "pull out of the jungles and hold the enclaves we have in hand," Babcock...
...confirms that really "spiritual" poetry stops being poetry pretty soon. It migrates from the particular to the universal too quickly to come down hard on the stuff of experience; it robs us of sensation and pays us back in the inflated currency of Concepts. Goldfarb is too hip, too conscious of what any reading audience wants, to bypass the senses. Maybe he appeals to them too often. We develop such faith in his experience -- such confidence in his brilliantly modulated rhetoric -- that we are willing to accept almost any statement as poetically valid, even passages where epigram takes the place...
...time in New York City costs at least $75,000. Elsewhere, congressional candidates pay $2,000 or more for a one-shot, one-minute spiel-in which, understandably, they tend to decry the high cost of living. TV politicking has progressed from the soapbox to the spectacular. The image-conscious candidate today is not content merely to exhort or debate in a studio. To hold his audience, he commandeers dramatic vignettes and perky musical numbers. In Congress, many incumbents studiously identify themselves with the controversial issues that will assure them net work exposure (see cover story). Some astute-and affluent...
...suit is too tight, it bunches embarrassingly; too loose, and the wearer looks like Mary Martin in a sailor suit. The triumphs, when they are turned out, reflect both the high level of tailoring now common in feminine fashion and the trim figures of today's health-conscious women. What remains in doubt is whether pants suits will stay around long enough to produce classics. The very quality of daring that at the moment makes them so tempting may yet be their downfall: a classic evening gown is good for seasons on end; already the sequined evening suit...