Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Every time someone makes a public confession, his audience grows conscious of their own secret sins. The mere presence of the confessor is mortifying, implicitly incriminating. The audience cannot take it. The more direct his approach, the more they want to get rid of him. Carnage ensues...
...neurotic New Yorker who calls Woody Allen's apartment "home." It is cold, uninviting and spiteful, a brooding flipside to Fellini's 8 1/2, a masturbating-cousin to Fosse's All That Jazz. It is autobiographical, as all his films have been autobiographical, but Stardust Memories is repulsively self-conscious, full of loathing and self-loathing. Worst of all, it's not even funny...
...moll with a heart of gold--a two-hour meditation on a cliche. There is very little more than that: something, perhaps, like "love wins in the end," "little people can beat the system," or "women can beat men at their won game." There are all sorts of self-conscious messages in Gloria, tacked on like flyers on a kiosk. All of them are upbeat; isn't that what people want...
...entire span of most of our conscious lives either Muhammad Ali or Cassius Clay was heavyweight champion of the world, or should have been. How abhorred in our imagination it is! None of the dogs are leashed anymore. It's almost certain that Ronald Reagan is going to be president. And it's going to be a very hard winter, very hard indeed. Ali, Ali, lama sabachthani...
Much of what is wrong with Cambridge is not the city's fault--Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, must make conscious decisions to end their needless expansion into residential neighborhoods. There are other problems the city will have to face--maintaining a diverse city in the face of rising costs and increasing gentrification, or allowing economic development without sacrificing the high quality of life. But Cambridge deserves a celebration this weekend. It has come much further than most American cities, and it has the resources and the pride to go much further still...