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...been in America, but life did not much improve on those rare occasions when Frank's father Malachy found work. As McCourt recalls in a spunky, bittersweet memoir called Angela's Ashes (Scribner; 364 pages; $24), his dad was both a kindly parent and a world-class rummy. Sober enough during the week, on paydays Malachy McCourt would guzzle away his wages at a pub and, late Friday night, stagger home, penniless. There, while his wife Angela wept and railed, he would coax his sons into singing old patriot tunes and roar that they must be ready...
Kerry, a Yale graduate, communicates a more sober, senatorial demeanor. In past debates, Kerry found himself explaining the intracacies of the governor's frequent quips...
Kerry, a Yale graduate, communicates a more sober, senatorial demeanor. In past debates, Kerry found himself explaining the intracacies of the governor's frequent quips...
BRETT FAVRE 1995's MVP returns to the Packers clean and sober, with "Super Bowl or bust" fever...
...inferior novel to Leaving Las Vegas, which was composed during one of the few sober periods in O'Brien's adult life, The Assault on Tony's can be choppy and dramaless despite a smattering of lyrical passages. Nevertheless, Assault remains the more philosophical of the two books, as it presents a picture of addiction truer to O'Brien's grim vision. There is not the slightest possibility of salvation for Rudd and his comrades--not even a marginally redeeming love story, as in Leaving Las Vegas. Drinking themselves to death is an inevitability these men seem to accept. Behind...