Word: consciousnesses
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...coincidence that RVs are getting spruced up just as image-conscious boomers, now 39 to 57, head into their prime buying years. (Boomers are turning 50, the typical age of motor-home buyers, at a rate of 350,000 each month.) Today's low interest rates not only make RV loans more attractive but also leave buyers feeling wealthier after refinancing their home mortgages. While most of the economy sputtered last year, the RV industry was catapulted out of a downturn and into its second best year since the Iran oil crisis pummeled the business in 1979. The industry tends...
...used to always feel really self-conscious because I was so uncool, and all the cool kids talked about [rock] music,” she says. “And so now I just fall asleep at night and laugh to myself. It really can happen to anybody. You can think you’re so uncool and then you can be in the indie-elite. And I don’t even know what that...
...deserves is as the year’s most overrated film. Though beautifully shot and populated with a set of unusually complicated characters, Talk to Her shamelessly and outrageously asks its audience to sympathize with a rapist. The film manages, paradoxically, to be both sloppily edited and deadeningly self-conscious. As it progresses, the audience is slowly but surely ushered into a stupor very closely resembling that of the coma victim at the story’s inane center. Winner of this year’s Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Talk to Her screens...
...9/11 really did change everything,” he said. “People are conscious of conflict and the need for strong authority...
Justices spent the first half-hour of oral arguments discussing a friend-of-the-court brief submitted by former high-ranking U.S. military officers and heads of military academies supporting affirmative action, in sharp contrast to the brief against race-conscious programs submitted by the Bush Administration...