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Word: conscious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Half-asleep, on my way to breakfast this morning, I was confronted with a large photo of three bathing-suited beauties with the word "Budweiser" written across their torsos and the phrase "label conscious" above their heads (this photo was an ad on the back page of the magazine "U." which was door-dropped Wednesday morning). A minor tremor of indignation went through me, but I tried to shrug off the image of those women. If you let yourself be upset by such things as that, you will spend a great deal of time being angry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appalling Attitude Toward Rape | 2/20/1988 | See Source »

...plot sounds vaguely like a dilemma from an episode of Webster or Punky Brewster. But as silly as this musical may seem, the underlying message is well worth repeating in out increasingly status-conscious society...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: F-F-F-F-Fashion (Huh!) | 2/19/1988 | See Source »

...more socially conscious of us wondered whether Gary Hart practiced safe...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Iowa Sends A At Hart | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

...right-wing Republican from North Carolina, launched a campaign in 1985 to take over CBS, he urged supporters with pointed glee to buy up CBS stock and "become Dan Rather's boss." Many TV news traditionalists are no fonder of Rather: he is too high-pitched, too image conscious, too well paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Was Trained to Ask Questions | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

Brook meticulously undercuts or complicates every stereotype with a welcome particularity. The crucial performance is by Film Star Brian Dennehy (Silverado, F/X) as a benevolent yet diffident Lopakhin, less a brash parvenu than a man poignantly conscious of his humble origins and clumsily trying to fit in. He is in his own way just as dreamy as Lyubov (Natasha Parry), the estate's spendthrift owner, whom he constantly upbraids for her impracticality. She ignores the impending auction of her home because any available means to "save" it would change and therefore destroy it. When Lopakhin cannot recruit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Samovars Without Stereotypes THE CHERRY ORCHARD | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

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