Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While many health-conscious adults have been forsaking liquor for Perrier, children have been hitting the bottle with alarming abandon. The National Council on Alcoholism says that some 100,000 ten- and eleven-year-olds get drunk at least once a week, usually on beer or wine, and 3.3 million teenagers have serious drinking problems...
...stands at the traditional end of the Jewish spectrum and holds that both of these statements, along with all the rest of Jewish law, carry full Divine sanction in our lives must therefore view homosexual activity (although not necessarily homosexual orientation, over which one has no conscious control) as a sin. There would then be some possible distribution of opinion as to how one establishes a moral balance between the sin on the one hand and the inherent worth of the person on the other...
...been relentlessly scrutinized, dissected and classified. The Baby Boomers were the Spock generation, the Now generation, the Woodstock generation, the Me generation. Nor were they exactly shy about all the attention. Through high times and hard times, no other group of Americans has ever been quite so noisily self-conscious...
Obviously Stallion's Gate is not meant to be taken too literally. There is a touch of the folk hero about Pena as he moves across the New Mexican landscape. A conscious stylist, Smith relies strongly on emotional echoes and calibrated suspense. He also seems keenly aware of his story's film potential. No producer will be confused by the tense hunting scene, the Indian dance that mocks the white man's efforts to saddle atomic energy, the Rocky-like prizefight that pits Pena against a younger opponent, an eerie trip with a radioactive cargo, and a climactic battle...
...back down into the wild mind of a child. Cosby made his comedy mark by relating the foibles of his Philadelphia youth on hit albums like 1965's Why Is There Air? In the '70s, he turned Fat Albert into a Saturday cartoon series, and his kiddie- conscious commercials for big-time sponsors like Jell-O helped earn him one of the ad world's highest Q (positive-recognition quotient) ratings, a rank he still holds. In his first solo TV series, he played a high school coach; it ended after only two seasons...