Word: sober
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...condemned men are all in mufti," a Lagos radio correspondent announced crisply, giving a running account of the executions on Bar Beach. "Most of them look sober. Some manage to smile at newsmen." Religious confessions, Christian and Moslem, were received by two priests and a mallam (a Moslem religious leader). While the throng looked on, the 15-man firing squad opened up. The shooting lasted ten minutes, as one by one the coup plotters slumped to the blood-soaked sand...
...flock of people who rush to shake his hand. But each actor is surrounded by his own crowd; they smile in a daze, drained and wet. Some of them are on the verge of tears, others just eat popcorn, saying the "empty feeling" won't hit them until the sober Sunday morning after...
...impressionism, 40 years ahead. It was an attempt, as Constable put it, "to arrest the more abrupt and transient appearances of the Chiaroscuro in Nature, to shew its effect in the most striking manner, to give 'to one brief moment, caught from fleeting time' a lasting and sober existence...
...sharp contrast to his last Harvard appearance, Norman Mailer '43, describing himself as "virtually stone sober", gave a lecture last night entitled "From Poetry to Espionage" to a Sanders Theater crowd of about...
...launched 28 months ago as a TIME-size fortnightly "feature newsmagazine" that would fill in gaps presumably left by the newsweeklies, the sober New Republic, the monthly Atlantic and all the other news and opinion journals. New Times has often seemed preoccupied with drugs, conspiracies and other counterculture concerns; more recently the magazine has moved part way off those trendy themes. New Times has reported on a mini-civil war between natives and newcomers in Telluride, Colo., on California hospitals that allegedly give kickbacks to doctors for patient referrals, and on a right-wing militia group in San Diego. Much...