Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American good looks that an Eileen Ford talent scout would spot beneath all the pancake powder and lipstick. But Dern plays Connie as a girl who has not yet come into her own. She's tall and thin and leggy, but she walks with a knock-kneed self-conscious slouch. When she tries to be sexy, the worst of Valley Girl fashion comes out of the closet. Too much hairspray, too many jiggly bangles, plastic colorful earrings, a flairy mini-skirt and a push-up satin halter are the usual attire. All the sleazy guys at Frank's Hamburger Joint...
...though. So we do what appears to be the next best thing--supporting organizations, such as USA for Africa and Oxfam, which work to alleviate famine in the world. Even Harvard students try to do their part. One of the biggest events on the calendar of the pseudo-socially-conscious is tonight's Oxfam fast. But if it's too late to do anything about this year's event, take my advice: never take part in another Oxfam fast again...
...woes has been the continued collapse of a building boom that transformed the desert nation (pop. 6 million) into a land of superhighways, high-rise offices and shopping malls. At the same time, recent successes of Iran in its war against Iraq (see following story) have made the security-conscious Saudis extremely nervous. By invading Iraq's Fao Peninsula last February, the Iranians established a menacing threat to Saudi Arabia and its equally vulnerable gulf neighbors. The danger was underscored last week when an Iranian helicopter gunship fired a missile into a Saudi oil tanker in gulf waters, leaving four...
...green-grass-conscious University has long prohibited freshmen frisbee fanatics from frolicking in spring weather. But now, thanks to the "open university," the irate 'shmen are fighting back. If they can't have their frisbees on the smelly fertilizer, then divestment activists certainly can't have an ivory tower--taking up the space of thousands of frisbees but not helping anyone burn off calories...
...want to add that in virtually every case of which I am aware (and this includes the cases mentioned in your article) spouses who end up at the same university have not done so by accident, but rather with the conscious planning and/or efforts of the university involved. Deborah E. Nord Assistant Professor of English