Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THOUGH he was once one of the more notorious playboys of the Arab world, Morocco's King Hassan II quickly proved himself a sober ruler when he acceded to the throne more than ten years ago. But the slim, dark-eyed monarch still enjoys a good bash, and he decided to celebrate in style when he turned 42 last week. Accordingly, he invited 500 guests, including Cabinet Ministers, generals and the diplomatic corps, to join him at Skhirat, one of his ten palaces, which is situated at a seaside spa ten miles outside Rabat...
...irony is that the men of the Mafia, for reasons of camouflage, have arrived at the life-style of the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. But the double irony is that propriety has now become its own parody. While the children of the league labor to prove how sober, hardworking, puritanical they are, the children of the Mayflower, dressed in a travesty of the 1930s' Italian-gangster wardrobe, are straining twice as hard (from Swiss ski lodges to Caribbean beaches) to prove they are, at heart, impulsive Latin playboys...
...wiretapping. Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst followed with a slightly veiled attack on Boggs' drinking problem and emotional instability in the past. Kleindienst said Boggs was "sick, or not in possession of his faculties." But reporters who questioned Boggs after the speech found him motivated only by sober and sensible outrage...
Star-Schlock. Rosewater feels the same way when he is sober, although he finds it necessary to note that most science-fiction writers can't write "for sour apples...
Doubtless, Director Dino Risi wished to reveal the two faces of the church as well, but the sober editorial is out of keeping with the film's farcical style. The jests are painfully arch (says a prelate to a Vatican telephone operator: "I'd like to speak to St. Paul. Minnesota, that is"). But the jesters-ah, that is another story. It always is when Mastroianni and Loren combine...