Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sold in the U.S. this year, a 15% increase over 1983. According to manufacturers, many people see them as a way to help prevent some kinds of venereal disease. Says Milton Bryson, marketing director for Youngs Drug Products, which makes the Trojans brand: "People have become much more health conscious." Other buyers choose the condom, which is more than 90% effective in preventing conception, to avoid the side effects sometimes associated with such birth control methods as the Pill and intrauterine devices...
Betrayal is minimalist self-conscious pseudo-drama at its most lean and mean, a love triangle chopped up, robbed of emotional content, shorn of traditional character relationships, and pasted together in reverse order. What remains (a lot) is 90 minutes of ersatz psychodrama that flip-flops the protagonists' emotions, the concept of the dramatic narrative, and traditional notions of romance, nostalgia, friendship and adultery...
Though David Wingrove has offered up a perfectly acceptable rendition of the play, he misses numerous chances to partake in Pinter's gleeful subversiveness and turn Betrayal into a work directly relevant to the thousands of nascent Harvard Yuppies trading self-conscious banalities over demitasse at Tommy's Lunch...
...whole lot of different things, and above all they are managers who can handle a group of disparate enterprises." At Citicorp, for example, Jesse Fink, 27, who studied forestry before receiving his M.B.A., heads the company's direct-mail program. Says he: "This organization is not very age conscious. You can get a lot of responsibility quickly." Says Vice President Jennie Schreder, 31, who used to conduct biophysics research and now manages the development of new products for Citicorp: "It's up to each person to make things work, so you have to be an entrepreneur...
...reason for the shopping spree is that calendars are bargains, costing from $4.95 for wall models to $14.95 for desk versions. Another factor: freebies from local merchants and major companies are disappearing. Cost-conscious Chemical Bank, for instance, gave away 550,000 calendars in its New York branches in 1982 but has printed less than half that number this year. Calendars are becoming personal statements. "There's no such thing as the family calendar any more," says Paul Gottlieb, president of Harry N. Abrams, which publishes seven calendars. "Everyone in the family has to have one, and they have...