Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like a wholesale shake-up. At least five of the 13 Cabinet departments will be getting new chiefs; by spring hardly a single member of the top White House domestic- policy staff will remain in place. The changes have come piecemeal, without any carefully thought-out plan or even conscious overall design. Moreover, they are being made at an unpropitious time, when the Administration should be concentrating on its agenda for the next four years...
...First Lady and her p.r.-conscious operatives have tried to down-play galas in favor of uplifting public forays. Lately the coverage has tilted more toward the latter. Last Christmastime, the President's wife spent three hours at Washington's Children's Hospital doling out toys. The visit provided a particularly emblematic First Lady image: Nancy Reagan in her red-and-black pumps, black knit Adolfo jacket and plaid Adolfo skirt, kneeling on a linoleum ward floor to coddle an infant. Impeccably turned out, uncomplainingly doing her social duty...
...hangar Ray was loading the plane. Four dozen eggs. A case of Old Milwaukee. A case of Budweiser. A roll of roofing tar paper. Cat Chow. Meow Mix. Grape-Nuts flakes. Bread. A broom. "Some of them out there are brand conscious," Carol said. "Some are quality conscious. Some you just know what to get. One cat at the Allison ranch, for instance, won't eat anything but Purina...
Lightweight Crew, which until recently required a boat average of 125, produced some of the most diet conscious athletes. But Dietz, who has been involved in lightweight crew for eight years and at Radcliffe for two years, helped to change the nature of lightweight weigh-ins on an international, national and collegiate level...
...problem the novel presents to an adapter lies in a "trick" (Forster's own word) of design, a conscious separation of the meaning of the tale from its main narrative line. That narrative, richly peopled with types Forster encountered on two long trips to India, is quite straightforward. Psychologically, the point on which it is poised is the suppressed emotional tipsiness of Adela Quested. As played in the movie by Australian Actress Judy Davis, Adela is dull at first glance but with a wild surmise glowing in her eyes, her gestures half formed, alternately acknowledging and denying the curious...