Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many close-ups of ecric, murderous eyes. At several instances, the camera tracks someone's face as he speaks walking in circles around the room. This is dizzying to watch and doesn't seem to serve any purpose. Tracking feet around the room also seems a contrived and self-conscious maneuver, but Lumet gives us a healthy dose of this...
Kirby's Ventroux is a convincingly stuffy and image-conscious politician. His overly refined accent and stiff posture mark him as a man set in his ways; he clearly has more difficulty dealing with his wife than he does with mere matters of government. His attempts to explain things to her are constantly foiled by her illogical reasoning. Unable to make her understand by any rational means. Ventroux rants and raves at her, finally throwing her out of the room in frustration...
...Getting a taste of being an international city may raise our expectations culturally and aesthetically." Roberts' hopeful and boosterism sounds almost quaint: it has been at least a dozen years since World's Fairs -grand, unself-conscious celebrations of progress and technology - were right in step with the Zeitgeist. But Knoxville, a latecomer to urbanity, is excited anyway. Even John Austin, ambivalent about the enterprise, appreciates the hoopla. Says he: "We'd still be a backwater town on the banks of the Tennessee River without the fair." -By Kurt Andersen...
...agency nonetheless appears to have something to offer almost any budget. Prices begin at $2,000 a day for, say, blond Beauty Nancy Donohue, 24. Like some thing more in the middle range? How about $1,200 a day for green-eyed Donna Stia, 20? And for the budget-conscious, Priscilla Ogilvie, 15, who is one of the agency's "new faces," is available for a relatively modest $875. Prices slightly higher west of the Rockies. No mail or phone orders, - please. By E. Graydon Carter
...Yankee follower knows the "bad George," and Schaap describes a series of events that suggest that Steinbrenner's vengeful, authoritarian, and image-conscious side first took hold early on. He tells us how Steinbrenner lied to friends about his performance on his high school track team and observes that today's owner is fond of bragging that he sang in the Williams Glee Club with Stephen Sondheim--though the famed composer was never a member of the group...