Word: sober
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is only one of the surprises and difficulties facing U.S. companies trying to push through a new Open Door to China trade. Some other challenges: preparing reams of technical material for Chinese bureaucrats who will want to debate every minute specification of a widget; staying reasonably sober through Peking banquets that may include as many as ten bottoms-up toasts drunk in 110-proof mao tais; determining just how big the China market really is in the first place...
...funny. A couple of reasons suggest themselves. One is that Antonelli has none of the fire in her eyes that might be expected of a revenge-bound wife in a farce. She plays her scenes as if they were high drama. Another is that Mastroianni, though not quite so sober, lets us see too much of the pain that an actual man would feel under such circumstances...
...persuading his listeners that he had a sensible long-range strategy for dealing with both. With a view toward the politics of 1980, he hoped to come across as the cool, realistic leader. His delivery in a packed hall of the House of Representatives matched his message. Dressed in sober dark blue, standing so straight that his back almost arched, he spoke more haltingly than usual because he had the beginnings of a cold. There were the customary odd pauses and the staccato delivery. The applause was tepid, and when Carter proposed a slogan for his Administration, the New Foundation...
...opposing your signing this agreement or three or four more agreements. We're just being sober. One should not rely on such a thing. In seeking world peace and world stability, such agreements are neither as significant nor as useful as the normalization of relations between China and the U.S. and the peace and cooperation treaty signed between China and Japan. And if you look at the question in broader perspective, such an agreement is not as important as the strengthening of relations between the U.S. and Europe and between the U.S. and Japan. The first characteristic of the Soviet...
...unlikely that the business would have taken great interest in Bok, anyhow. His voice is a warm bass baritone. His songs-some original, some traditional -are sober, a little lofty on occasion, and limited in appeal by theme as well as sound. Among Bok's prime efforts are Seal Djiril's Hymn and Peter Kagan and the Wind, a 15-minute narrative ballad about a fisherman who is, one might say, married to a fishwife: "She was a seal, you know/ Everyone knew that .../ But nobody would...