Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bruce F. Davie, the Ways and Means Committee's chief tax economist, said the cap is necessary because tax revenue lost to the bonds amounts to an unvoted subsidy. "The federal government didn't make a conscious decision to give Harvard $30 million a year," Davie said...
...first time that anybody has tried to get an overall goal with long-range plan," says Leib. "He's very conscious of people's different interests and concerns and he takes the time to respond to them...
...Light is trapped in the dense paint, and Thiebaud extracts a lavish, slightly mocking sensuality from the pun between the depicted work of the cake icer--smearing those layers of sweet goo, drawing arabesques with the forcing bag--and the literal work of the painter's brush. A very conscious part of his style is the way he rings his forms (plain geometrical ones, as a rule: rectangles, cones, cylinders) with zips of relieving color, orange, yellow or vermilion. When these work--and often they are little more than a graphic mannerism--they lend his images an indefinable...
...dopey scenes from the putative movie and shifts toward melodrama in more elegant but equally sentimental scenes for the "actual" characters. In the most implausible sequence, an American actress offers herself as the prize to the "winner" of the debate between the novelist and the journalist. Even after this conscious retreat from political complexity, Map remains lively and provocative. Yet it leaves a viewer with the sad sense that its author shrank from the dangers of attempting a genuinely great play...
Where IT was is much easier to see. The Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco is a neighborhood near Golden Gate Park whose present incarnation is a slightly less grimy version of Newbury Street. Old wood Victorian buildings, many now refurbished in a city more conscious of its architectural heritage, provide occasional lofts for artists and more frequently apartments for trendy would-be artists who are really young lawyers or bankers...