Word: sobering
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...Prairie”’s tone is usually genial and nostalgic. The strident politicking of Young’s previous outing, “Greendale,” has been replaced by a sober remembrance of things past...
...operates a high-tech alpine training center in Tokyo and works out daily, walking nearly everywhere with more than 20 kg of weight strapped to his back and ankles?even if he's coming home from a drinking party in Ginza. "It's good exercise, and I get sober," he says. Miura's enthusiasm for vigorous activity isn't rare among Japanese, who have the longest life spans in the world. Seniors there regularly break records. In 2002, Tamae Watanabe became the oldest woman to scale Everest, at 63, and 71-year-old Minoru Saito recently became the oldest person...
Even before David Strathairn opens his mouth, though, the sober grimace on his long face tells you that something is wrong. He’s playing legendary CBS News broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, and the year is 1958, as it turns out. But Strathairn is talking directly to you as he delivers a speech from the dais, meeting your eyes in 2005 as he rips into a complacent culture’s “allergy to disturbing information...
...this way, the film is like “Fight Club” without a willingness to let an endorsement of violence stand. As an ultra-violent, fun, underbelly-of-London movie, “Green Street Hooligans” is entertaining, if derivative. As a sober meditation on violence, it’s crippled by being too much fun. We stop caring about the real-life consequences because the film succeeds thoroughly enough in making us want to run off, become a hooligan, and beat the crap out of our over-privileged roommate...
...sigh of relief at that point, saying plane crashes come in threes—but they didn’t have much time before crash number four started the cycle again. September 5 brought the Indonesia crash that killed at least 149, leaving even the most hardened and sober among us wondering: where next...