Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Waltham, Mass., the setting of the novel. Even the reticence of his characters may reflect home truths: Henna's officemates have Italian surnames, but they scarcely discuss ethnicity. In time with their times, they share his fervor for feeling American. Yet there are hints of the conscious ness of decades to come: the widow realizes she wants to learn to fend for herself...
...quantum leap. Says Bill Lacy, president of New York's Cooper Union: "It's bold and shocking, a new way of thinking about furnishings." Its products grace several museum collections and have been featured in more than 200 magazine articles. But the group's self-conscious combination of campy references to the '50s and contemporary glitz has not impressed everyone. While he admires the bravado, U.S. Designer George Nelson notes that Memphis seems unconcerned with such staples as utility and affordability. Says he: "There's a bottomless appetite for novelty in the age of hype...
...race," says Civil Rights Chief William Bradford Reynolds. Indeed, the Birmingham case is not the first time the department has sided with white employees attacking affirmative-action programs. It has joined "reverse discrimination" suits in Boston, New Orleans and Detroit as well. Hiring quotas are among several "race-conscious" remedies that the Reaganauts have tried to abandon. Others include mandatory school busing and denying tax exemptions to segregated schools. Last week, for instance, the department asked a federal court of appeals to throw out a Dade County, Fla., law setting aside construction contracts for minority contractors. But the Birmingham case...
Show business accepts innocence only if it can be sentimentalized; Jackson's world of fantasy is easier to dismiss with malicious gossip than understand with sympathy. "On some level, I don't even know whether it's conscious or not, Michael knows that he has to stand off the demands of reality and protect himself," Jane Fonda points out. Jackson spent more than a week with Fonda on the set of On Golden Pond, talking far into the night about "acting, life, everything. Afrinight about "acting, life, everything. Africa. Issues. We talked and talked and talked. His intelligence is instinctual...
...after all a supreme but entirely logical irony that Blacks and members of other minorities should be as, or sometimes more, prejudiced than whites. Anyone who spends his formative years being humiliated and ostracized on the basis of his ancestry (as Jackson was) almost inevitably will become severely race-conscious. The individual bitterness provoked by experiences with discrimination may or may not surface and may even spur constructive attempts to combat bigotry; but it will survive, nonetheless, within the heart...