Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lower end, of course, some Neapolitan art can be as wearisome as any other self-conscious piece of "life enhancement." Like routine mezzogiorno cooking, all tomato paste and burnt garlic, it was not meant for an educated palate. But the remarkable thing about this show is how, time and again, it surprises one with some unexpected dramatic subtlety. The expression on Salome's face in Preti's The Feast of Herod, for instance, is worthy of Rembrandt in its shadowed play of emotion...
Martin Sheen as the much-loved Professor Beckwith does all the things Professor Segal wishes he could do at Yale. He guarantees a grade-conscious physics student an A simply for enrolling in his Shakespeare course, saying, "I'll feel safer knowing there's a physcist out there who's read Shakespeare. "He puts his job on the line to save the humanities. At home he is the perfect husband and father, playing with his daughters and good-naturedly mediating their disputes Bob and his wife Sheila (Blythe Danner) share their professional triumphs and problems and seem to believe...
...precisely, but never subtly: it is a childlike grin, or a petulant frown, or a quivering rage. In another moment, the man is a sculptor, chiseling a massive imaginary block until it becomes a miniature, a fragment, then dust. Slow fade, then, to emphasize that this is a self-conscious metaphor for the man's own meticulous, minimal art. -By William A. Henry...
...novel's reference to Harvard events appear equally self-conscious. Each professor is a "great," each incident a "milestone." Some allusions, such as the thinly veiled representation of an actual incident involving two drug distributing psychology professors, are intriguing; others merely smack of Harvard "vanitas." Consider Sarah's revelations-or hallucinations-in the field of chemical engineering...
...press can get squeakily self-conscious when the subject is the press itself. On ABC's This Week with David Brinkley recently, the host noted that "the White recession has been accusing us and others like us of prolonging the recession and impeding the recovery by constantly reporting bad news of rising unemployment. Are we guilty of that?" Condensed somewhat - to avoid windiness and repetition - here is how his panelists answered...