Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...critic and author, Kootz griped about American artists who poured "their ideas into the same corny molds." By contrast, he wrote of the abstract expressionists' works: "Dramatically personal, each painting contains part of the artist's self, this revelation of himself in paint being a conscious revolt from our Puritan heritage...
...tactics: canny marketing and nimble product development. Miller owner Philip Morris used rough-and-ready cowboy imagery during the 1950s and 1960s to propel its Marlboro brand to the lead in U.S. cigarette sales. Since it took over Miller in 1970, Philip Morris has used the same image-conscious advertising to promote beer. The master marketeers down-played the old Miller High Life slogan, "the champagne of bottled beers," and created a new image through "Miller time" television commercials. These typically feature young men who exercise mightily at such activities as felling trees or building highways and then cool...
...President proposes the largest budget, with the largest deficits, in American history. Then he marches up to the Capitol to stage a rally demanding a constitutional amendment that would require a balanced federal budget. "I don't feel self-conscious at all," Reagan tells a press conference. He argues the (at least partial) truths that he inherited ever growing commitments from Presidents before him and that a big tax cut might be a profitable jolt for the economy. Congress performs its own impressive feats of dissociation. The polls consistently show that between 70% and 75% of Americans favor...
Latin American fiction periodically ar rives like an out-of-touch cousin on a vacation trip. In the voice of translation, it speaks of strong family resemblances: realism, surrealism, stream of conscious ness, political protest and satire. The visitor is wined, dined, praised for its variety and daring. Then, with a hearty abrazo, Latin American fiction departs and North Americans go back to what they like to read best: costumed romance and novelized journalism...
...havenots. But I would like to say it is not true that the rich are richer and the poor are poorer. The rich are richer, as they are all over the world. But I would not say that the poor are poorer, except that they are more conscious of it. The general level of living is higher, and a lot of people have come into the middle class. But poverty remains. There are other difficulties, some of which we share with other countries: the growth of cities and towns; how to prevent pollution; how to conserve the environment, wildlife...