Word: consciousnesses
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...warned Simpson that because he was a Republican, he would be booed at the vigil. He was, but lesbians and gays from around his state also introduced themselves to him that day. "I said to myself, 'This is fascinating; these people are from all over,'" Simpson recalls, with self-conscious bemusement. When Francis approached him to join the R.U.C., he readily agreed. The group signed its credo, the Cody Statement, in the basement of the town's Buffalo Bill Historical Center in August 2001, and its nickname became the Cody Republicans. "We are Republican because we believe in limited government...
...When all the literary games are done and his last sentence deconstructed, Coetzee will be remembered for something quite simple: here was a writer who described, more truly than any other, what it was to be white and conscious in the face of apartheid's stupidities and cruelties. This may perplex people from outside South Africa, because the word apartheid is never uttered in his novels, and the settings are not necessarily South African. In 1980, when Coetzee's masterpiece Waiting for the Barbarians was published, I was in the U.S., living among people who took it as a surreal...
Time after the accident that the victim remained conscious...
...this person like? How do they really live?" explains director of merchandising Kristina Fideli-Ventura. No matter what the concept, "there's lots of color, jewels, gems, glitter," she says. Kid style is "not demure, not understated." Pottery Barn's PBteen catalog also builds furnishings around themes--the fashion-conscious "glam" style, the Asian-influenced Bonsai Boudoir, the surfer-dude Mavericks. Design is playful. Bike handlebar grips serve as chair arms, surfboards as headboards, skateboards as shelves. The fall catalog, 50% fatter than last spring's debut offering, "is substantially exceeding our expectations," says senior vice president Patrick Wynhoff, without...
...dismissed warning signs of trouble as pre-wedding jitters. "When my fiance broke up with me in June, I was in shock." Fear and guilt prey on both parties, no matter who initiates the breakup. Sheryl Paul, a Los Angeles-based "bridal counselor" and author of the forthcoming The Conscious Bride's Wedding Planner (New Harbinger), says that in the past year more clients have approached her with qualms--typically six months before the wedding, when they're "in the midst of freaking out"--and that more than 5% ultimately reverse gears. Says Paul: "To go full force with this...