Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...image-conscious Gorbachev has repeatedly flashed his smile on Soviet TV, visiting factories and plunging into street crowds to deliver off-the-cuff speeches. In Leningrad, a woman shouted to him, "Just get close to the people and they won't let you down." As the throng pressed in on him, Gorbachev shot back, "Can I get any closer?" In Kiev, he suffered a rare public slip of the tongue, twice referring to the country he leads as "Russia" before correcting himself to say "the Soviet Union, as we now call it, and as it in fact is." The mistake...
Sometimes the ads are quirkily self-conscious. "Ahem," began one suitor in the New York Review of Books. "Decent, soft-spoken sort, sanely silly, philosophish, seeks similar." Then he started to hit his stride: "Central Jersey DM WASP professional, 38, 6 ft.2", slow hands, student of movies and Marx, gnosis and news, craves womanish companionship...
...with memberships the size of small towns, Protestant Fundamentalism has become a powerful, confident and important force. Popularly associated with stern opposition to such personal "sins" as drinking, smoking and gambling, Fundamentalism draws upon the entire heritage of American revivalism, with its code of personal piety and insistence upon conscious commitment to Jesus Christ as one's "personal Savior...
...socially conscious epoch, the fortunes of the fortunate seem irrelevant; in a time of ethnic narcissism, Wasps are out. Yet as Ralph Graves' canny, discerning work proves, the novel of manners is far from obsolete, and the population of boardrooms and island beaches is as compelling as it was in the Age of Irony (circa...
...worst are no higher than in poor black and white areas. Illegal immigrants in particular seem to be less the perpetrators than the victims of crimes, which they often are reluctant to report for fear of being deported. Says Police Chief John Swan of Beaumont, Texas, with no conscious irony: "Our experience is that illegals are very law-abiding members of our community...