Word: consciousnesses
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...over was 'There's never been a crime like this, has there?' There was an extreme preoccupation with distinguishing himself," Smalldon says. He also had an obsession with control. "Dillon wrote a letter to the local newspaper, saying basically, You can never catch me, which indicated how very conscious he was of the appeal of operating under the radar but not too far under the radar--the appeal of having a dialogue with society and basically taunting society." Dillon was captured in part because his best friend reported some of his comments...
...destroyed his career. Reduced to the dinner-theater circuit, he met lots of willing women and took pictures of them in flagrante with the equipment Carpenter supplied. Then he was murdered, almost certainly by Carpenter. Auto Focus tells this story as affectlessly as we just have. It's a conscious aesthetic choice by director Paul Schrader, not an accident of ineptitude. But no matter--his objectification of sad and stupid material is neither tragic nor transgressive. It is just undramatic and uninvolving. --By Richard Schickel...
...health care. Well over 70 percent of the 10,000 janitors covered under the current contract are ineligible for health care because the cleaning companies do not provide health care to part-time workers. The creation of many part-time jobs instead of full-time jobs is a seemingly conscious strategy on the part of the cleaning companies to avoid paying health care benefits. These companies try to shift the responsibility for health care onto another company, where the worker presumably works full-time. But many janitors cannot find full-time jobs, or at least not ones that provide health...
Those who withhold their Harvard affiliation may be doing it out of more than self-conscious modesty. Just ask Ryan P. Lannon ’05. “I have roommates that tell girls, ‘I go to B.U., I go to B.C.,’ just so the girls think they’re more social, more normal,” he says. Lannon says he doesn’t do that, but has experienced multiple negative repercussions from telling people he goes to Harvard...
...certain point you say to yourself, Good God, if it quacks like a duck and it walks like a duck, there’s a very good chance that it is a duck, and so there could be actually some unconscious or conscious elements at work here, and I would leave that up to the soul of Summers himself...