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...sight of his red and blue lights directly in front of a neon "BEER" sign didn't improve my amateur handling of the clutch. I was stone sober but starting to feel woozy as I desperately wobbled our growling vehicle toward the exit ramp. Dave, Kevin, and Nate--still under the effects of Montreal's 18-year-old bar scene--were too drunk to notice the hovering patrol car, until his red and blues started flashing...
Frantic sounds of beverage concealment rose from the backseat. Kevin, speaking from his extensive high school experience with the Montana State Police, announced, "It's okay, you're sober. Just roll down the window He can't touch...
Armani has it right. Clothing has been sober and serious in recent years. The dominant figure of the late 1970s was not a Frenchman but the brilliant tailor Armani. In the early '80s the Japanese brought artistry to clothing, but very few chuckles. Lagerfeld cheered things up a bit, but Lacroix has thrown all caution -- some would add taste -- to the winds and opted for outright hilarity...
...then I had had a ball. I partied hard and did the Hollywood scene. I got into a lot of cocaine and mushrooms -- wild mushrooms were heavy in those days. I'd try everything. Before I met my wife, I was sexually wild too. But I always kept a sober side. No matter how hard the night was, I would always write in the day. I felt Hemingway was right: the true test of a man is to be able to work with a hangover. But I think the drugs were hurting my writing. I was going stale...
While Israelis were in a holiday mood last week, many of the country's top political leaders had their own cause for celebration. They rejoiced over a sober 65-page Justice Ministry report that cleared Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres of complicity in the 1984 murders of two captured Arab bus hijackers by agents of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency...