Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wearing a mask on the back of his head, is by sudden twists and turns a scowling accuser and a smiling protector. Most ludicrous are the earthlings, who in Terrestrial Autumn romp through a slapstick wedding scene that teeters on the brink of banality. After some sober reflections on descending night and death in Plutonian Winter, all elements conspire in a bright aurora borealis of a finale...
...assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas. The late President's family carefully hand-picked both the author and the publisher-neither of whom had sought the assignment-and offered them exclusive access to information and key figures, hoping thereby to avoid "distortion and sensationalism" and produce a sober, low-key retelling of the events of Nov. 22, 1963. The book was to be a rara avis: a history that would be independent but would still carry the authorization of the Kennedys and require their approval before publication...
...Tiffany's, he pursued an impeccable education. Although he was bounced from two private schools, he nevertheless managed to acquire a diploma from Hotchkiss, a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from Princeton, with a three-year stint as a Marine Corps lieutenant in between to sober him up. The aristocratic, 6-ft. 3-in. Hoving (who often beats traffic by buzzing around town on his motorcycle) is still brash enough to have called Robert Moses' World's Fair Unisphere "a great big heavy clunk" and battled A. & P. Millionaire Huntington Hartford over his desire...
...Crisp in color, jaunty in jingly music (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?), the movie was also a significant departure in its simply stated moral theme. In Snow White, Disney and his staff met the challenge of creating believable characters. Each of the seven dwarfs, from sober-sided Doc to dim-bulb Dopey, had a distinct personality. In Cinderella, a handful of Disney creations nearly stole the show: the bloodthirsty but fatuous cat Lucifer, and the nimble mice, Jaq and Gus-Gus. Millions of children the world over grew up convinced that Disney wrote as well...
Seldom in these days of coast-to-coast screens and retina-wrecking color is a play so tastefully transformed into a film. Scene after scene is played in sober old Tudor houses glozed by candlelight, or by the warm green verges of the New Forest. The costumes are rich, not gaudy, and the actors are borne lightly on the lucid stream of language that flows throughout the film. Even more mesmerically than he did in the play, Paul Scofield pulls all eyes toward himself by the abundance and subtlety of what seems to be happening inside him. Seen close...