Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other men, Andy Sellon and Ben Schatz., have less ample vocal talents, but their songs are less demanding; too. If Sellon is a touch precious and self-conscious in "Fanette," a lengthy contemplation on alost love, he provides just the right sneer of disgust for the satire of the solider's lot in "Next...
...Berman's British-American Repertory Company (BARC), on the other hand, acts a bit self-conscious throughout the play, and exaggerates the caricaturing native to the script. To be fair, some of the actors in the company restrain themselves, but they only look-incongruous among their mugging colleagues...
...still a fledgling fad elsewhere. In Boston and Atlanta, many department store buyers have adopted a wait-and-see attitude and are limiting supply. "They're really horrible," says one Boston department store manager, "and normally things that don't look good don't last." Body-conscious Californians have yet to be seduced by the latest fashion invasion. Explains one 40-year-old sylph: "I worked really hard to stay looking good, and I'm not going to cover it up with baggies." The jeans have been well received among Chicago high schoolers, but older customers...
...introduced into the argument, we can say that abortion provides the possibility of improving that quality. Motherhood is a remarkably special bond between mother and child, perhaps the most important relationship we ever have. It requires tremendous emotional capacities, and raising children should be one of the most conscious decisions we make. Many of those who have abortions when young have children later in life, when they are more emotionally and financially equipped to handle them. Contraception is at most 99 per cent safe, and abortion must be available to allow women the freedom to provide the optimum conditions...
...didn't, though; he wrote this bloat, and he tells us why over and over again in the course of it. (In fact, if you cut out all the self-conscious justifications for the denseness and length of Letters, it would probably become both readable and manageable...