Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...More important, however, was the message to Moscow about its image in the world. Said a U.N. official: "The vision of the Soviet Union as a defender of the nonaligned peoples in the world has been shattered. The Russians care about the votes here because they are very image-conscious." For one Western ambassador, this had a measurable political significance. Said he: "In thinking of their next possible adventure, I believe what happened in Afghanistan will provide another ingredient in the Soviets' decision-making process...
...Caan) and a newly divorced actress (Marsha Mason), snap zingers at each other during a wary meeting, a breathless courtship and a marriage that almost fails before it gets started, conforming to the theatrical convention Simon has created for himself. But they have the good grace to be self-conscious about their verbal twitchiness. They understand there are more important matters at stake here. As a result, the movie is rather blurred-an owlish comedy, as it were. Yet, if Simon still does not quite trust himself to express his feelings fully, Chapter Two remains thought provoking...
Nothing, one would think, could be addressed more purely to the eye than Seurat's divisionism, his way of analytically representing color and light by means of dots of pure pigment, stippled closely together. In front of a painting like The Gravelines Channel, Grand Fort-Philippe, 1890, one.is conscious of nothing but the field of infinite nuances, the chalky light of the marine estuary, the artist's utter absorption in vision itself: this is one of the most exquisite paeans to the discriminatory power of the human eye ever to be set on canvas, far away, one would suppose, from...
...very good at it. Some of the girls and women have had figure-skating lessons, and some men played hockey in school, but in well-behaved years the frozen lakes have three feet of snow on them, and so we are skiers, not skaters. I am conscious of resembling, as I skate, a bishop who has drunk too much at a garden party and is trying to appear sober. I totter along for miles, fascinated, accompanied by a dog who skates no better than I do and an assistant dog who loses control of her hindquarters when she tries...
...obvious question which sustains you through this very heavily crafted and self-conscious opening (every angle feels weighty) is, who is this couple and why are they here? Unfortunately, this question is never answered because the two are about to be flung headlong into a terrible adventure from which they will never return...