Word: sobering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GIANNI VERSACE had one of the most colorful, vibrant palettes in the fashion business, but at his memorial Mass, few could bring themselves to wear anything but sober black. More than 2,000 mourners, from family and fashion-industry friends to some of the world's most celebrated clotheshorses, including PRINCESS DIANA and CAROLYN BESSETTE KENNEDY, gathered in the Duomo in Milan, where ELTON JOHN and STING (who wore Versace to his wedding to TRUDIE STYLER) performed an a cappella rendition of Psalm 23, The Lord Is My Shepherd. The designer's sister DONATELLA and brother SANTO wept profusely...
...very nature of the story reveals these differences. Shohei Sugiyama (Koji Yakusho) is a sober, industrious accountant who's just passed 40 and can rightly be called a successful man. He has a wife and preteen daughter, and has recently bought a house; and to pay the mortgage, he's been working even more diligently than usual. But it seems he's not happy. Night after night he commutes home, and each night, at a certain stop, he sees the embodiment of his vague yearnings--a beautiful woman who comes to the window of a dance studio, looking out with...
...McLaughlin Group. And TV buffs will remember Walter Cronkite's walk-on at the end of a Mary Tyler Moore Show episode more than two decades ago. With Contact, however, the journalistic community's sensitivity to the blurring of the lines between news and entertainment has caused some sober second thoughts. CNN president Tom Johnson said last week that in the future such appearances will probably be banned, bringing the cable network in line with the longtime policies...
Inning seven, Boston: We sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." A little confused about the nature of the seventh-inning stretch, a young, very drunk man decides to strip. He is down to his skivvies when the police appear to arrest him. He seems to sober up after the officers cuff him. He is escorted out, still minus his shirt. Rumors circulate that something important may have happened on the field during the commotion...
...their efforts to document UFO sightings with something approaching objective rigor; contactees, who believe they have had telepathic communication with aliens; abductees, who believe they have been subjected to experimentation by E.T.s; and cultists like the Heaven's Gaters, who are an enormous source of embarrassment to their comparatively sober-minded confreres. But despite their many differences, for nearly all of them Roswell is central, a way into the darkness. Peculiar theories ripple out from Roswell. So do further-ranging cultural tides...