Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard has improved the "effort reporting" of researchers, said Clark J. Bernard, a partner in Coopers and Lybrand. "People around the University are much more conscious" of how they distribute their time among projects, he explained...
That squalor, the play's major motive force, makes the production worth squirming for. Shepard's tools for inducing that Squirm aren't much subtler than the "starving class" metaphor of the title, which, despite numerous references in the dialogue, never surpasses the self-conscious (they're emotionally starving, you see). Emma (Molly White) the younger of the two gawky adolescents, is having her first period, as the mother constantly reminds father and brother to excuse her behavior. Wesley (Steven Gutwillig), her brother, urinates on a heap of Emma's painstakingly drawn posters. Shepard isn't one for the soft...
Every day some 40 million Americans, stricken by such cravings as the Big Mac attack and the Whopper whim, happily surrender to the artery-clogging, waist-expanding pleasures of fast food. But for diet-conscious consumers in particular, a megaburger binge provokes guilt feelings. Reason: the grab-a-bite meal of a quarter-pound cheeseburger, French fries and 16-oz. cola typically contains 1,070 calories. Since an average 170-lb. officeworker must consume fewer than 2,900 calories a day in order to lose weight, a trip to the burger stand does not leave much room for breakfast...
...darker side of his art lies just beneath the manners, habits of class and self-conscious respectability that provide the surface tension for most of his stories. Generally, what is amusing in the author's England can turn ugly in Ireland (both north and south), where bitter years and an unfinished present conspire to drive people mad. The elderly schoolteacher in Attracta cannot help sharing with her pupils the goriest details of the latest Belfast atrocity: I.R.A. terrorists mailed the head of a British officer to his wife, who joined the Women's Peace Movement and was later...
Around 1977, the Management Company made a conscious decision to become more aggressive in exploring newer, unconventional investment fields. Putnam, Cabot, and Financial Vice President Thomas O'Brien--who had just arrived on the scene--are all vague when asked who originated and promoted the idea, but the Corporation quickly endorsed the push for diversification...