Word: sober
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will have to show progress toward achieving the return of Egypt's territories. Reopening the Suez Canal would be a vital first step in increasing his personal stature. A strong Sadat, many Egyptians believe, is Israel's best assurance of a politically guaranteed peace. "We are sober and collected. We are not hysterical but we cannot return to a frozen situation. We cannot play hide-and-seek any longer," says Ghorbal. "We must go to peace or all will go to pieces...
...Sober Suit. Miró has "done" tapestries in the past; that is, he made small paintings, and tapestry makers in Aubusson or Gobelins reproduced them. "That does not interest me any more," says Miró. With Royo, he is in at the start. For his part, Royo is pleased and amazed: "We both work from 7 in the morning until 1 o'clock, then from 3 to 8 or 9 at night. I'm often exhausted, but he never seems to get tired...
Small as a gnome, now white-haired, Miró lives and looks, or tries to look, like a conventional bourgeois (even in his Paris days when his friends were Picasso and the wilder Dadaists, he was always the one in the sober suit and tie). He is in search of no publicity at all; he has more commissions than he can handle, more monographs on his work than he can count, more requests for interviews than he cares to consider...
Even after Israel's government announced that it and Egypt had accepted the U.S.-endorsed cease-fire plan, Jerusalem's mood remained sober and suspicious. Professor Louis Guttman, a well-known public opinion analyst, found that 84% of his countrymen believe that the Arabs' primary goal is to destroy Israel...
...many times have I crawled back to Dunster to drink myself into a stupor at the Zorbel while the comments around the room slowly degenerate from the depressingly sober "Jesus, we really blew it, didn't we?" to the no-less depressingly drunk "Jesus, I'm so blitzed I can hardly stand up." Nothing like booze to make you forget. What did I just...