Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your article about the Aspen design conference [June 27], the reference to Steven Jobs, chairman of the board of Apple Computer Inc. might be interpreted as suggesting that Jobs considers design "dispensable gift wrapping." On the contrary, Apple is one of the most design-conscious corporate enterprises in America, whose commitment to design goes beyond simple marketing considerations. The most telling evidence of this commitment is exemplified by the products themselves, and in this regard Apple measures up very well...
...bulk. Ralphs, a Los Angeles food retailer, sells 150 items in ten stores. Pick-n-Pay, a division of First National Supermarkets, headquartered near Cleveland, began last December with one store that sold bulk products. Now there are 19. Says First National Spokesman Terry Kushner: "Everyone is price-conscious. It's an extraordinary way to save money...
...Camera & Instrument Corp. She and her neighbors are charging Fairchild with negligent contamination of a public well serving 700 residents. They are also holding the company responsible for seven deaths in the past three years, as well as a number of miscarriages and birth defects. "People here were health conscious," says Ross, who blames the congenital heart ailment of her two-year-old daughter Juliana on toxins from the tainted well. "There were so many medical problems on our street we joked that maybe we were living on a toxic dump...
...Savoy Hotel. McEnroe, who crunched New Zealand's Chris Lewis in the straight set men's finals, had even worked on his backhanded temperament, going so far as to shake hands with the umpire and referee after one match. "I think I've made a conscious effort to get along," said he. "But don't take this too seriously...
...There is no definitive David Bowie," he once remarked. Ziggy and the Duke have been slithered out of, like shucked snakeskins, but their creator remains a well-nurtured enigma. Perhaps by design: in concert or in conversation, he always seems like a scrupulous creation. The body, even relaxed, seems conscious of pose. The face?Leslie Howard sketched by George Grosz?can be nearly beautiful, but the mouth splits its sculpted lines when it turns up into a toothy, gratified grin, like Chaplin's as he watched a fat man fall. Bowie's eyes, always appraising, seem to look straight down...