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It started last fall in the country when I was invited to join a "bulb club"--a self-consciously pre-feminist all-girl group that meets to buy bulbs in bulk at reduced rates and exchange bits of gardening wisdom.
Others insist he self-consciously aimed to represent emotions and landscapes.
He played himself, campily, in Wayne's World . He draws thousands of fans to his goofy, self-consciously bombastic concerts.
After his death in a skiing accident, the pop-singer-turned-congressman is elevated from a "hen-pecked, dim bulb" (Jill Lawrence, USA Today ) to "a symbol of the American capacity for reinvention" ( Newsweek ). Many critics conclude that Bono was not as buffoonish as his public image, which they claim he self-consciously cultivated to advance his career.
Several recent reviews buck the critical consensus and deride the book, the story of a Confederate deserter, for being too self-consciously novelistic (James Gardner, National Review ). Like "a literary approximation of an already literary idea of reality," says Slate's James Wood.