Word: consciousnesses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...thinker. Bill Clinton has a galumphing, knock-kneed stride that explains why, as a 6' 2" 200 lb. high-school student in Little Rock, Arkansas, he was in the band rather than on the football team. The camera shot of him walking by himself - steely-jawed and deeply self-conscious - along a narrow hallway into the Democratic convention was one of the most hilarious minutes of television I've ever seen...
Music at the White House is also in for a change. No more Jon Bon Jovi, Stevie Wonder, Melissa Etheridge, Quincy Jones etc. We are in for some serious country music. And not that socially-conscious pap produced by Garth Brooks. Look for Merle Haggard, Brooks & Dunn and Travis Tritt...
CHOLESTEROL COUNTS Still choosing between butter and margarine? Butter, of course, was the big no-no for cholesterol-conscious folks until scientists realized that the alternative, stick margarine, contains trans-fatty acids, which may be even worse for arteries. So what about the stuff in a tub? A new study shows that cholesterol levels can drop 10% in kids and adults within two weeks of switching from butter to soft tub margarine. There's a rub. Switching has no effect on the cholesterol of overweight subjects, who tend to have higher levels to begin with...
...could get cute and explicate the movie as an anticorporate parable. Without George and his community-conscious building and loan, the cartoonishly bad Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore) would have synergized Bedford Falls into a grim and soulless company town. Do people respond to the movie as a protest against takeovers? I doubt...
...Camarillo Brillo'' as a political sage, I think he has a point. Flamboyance, pizzazz and showbiz skills have eclipsed policy savvy as chief prerequisites for national politics, and politicians have changed their strategies as a result. This makes perfect sense to me. Only major caffeine abuse could keep me conscious through a policy guru's lecture on the tax code, but if the same wonk dons a pair of shades and blows a sax, I'll pay a cover charge. He might even get me to vote...