Word: consciousnesses
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Let’s Go travel guides are for the rugged adventurer or the budget-conscious hostel-hopper who savvily wants to make his way through a city’s hidden secrets. The Four Seasons is not on the itinerary. But for one former Paris research-writer, doing it on a shoestring was not the order of the day when he asked his lady love to be his wife...
Like a first date who talks too much, Salts is overly self-conscious. Take the cartoonish lettering on the shingles above its door. Or the italicized mantra that takes up a full page of the menu: Throughout history, the offer of salt has been regarded as the offer of hospitality. The tables have saltcellars with cute little wooden spoons, which are remarkably impractical when it comes to actually seasoning food. Sprinkling salt from a spoon means spilling it all over, or having your meal end up tasting overwhelmingly of brine...
...that much. I mean, it shaped my economic world view. I was like the only 14 year old using the term moral hazard and things like that. On UC, I’ve been very conscious about making sound fiscal decisions where we price the services that we give at what they’re actually costing us. I like to say that the students pay for it either way, it’s just a question of whether they pay for it through their term bill or they pay for it through the fee for the service...
...while he possesses an intensity and level of focus on the field that few can claim to share, Balestracci makes a conscious effort not to be aloof from his teammates but to be as easy to talk to as he was prior to being selected as captain...
...Michelangelo’s David. And Borges’ Funes. His Jaromir Hladik. Jay is tortured because it’s lonely at the top, but conscious that he can go no further, climb no higher, get no better. Meanwhile, we’re forced to adjust our standards, reconciling Jay-Z’s raps with “real” poetry—which presumably reach a level of emotion and enlightenment that hip-hop could never approach. He’s just talking about himself the whole time, isn’t he? About how great...