Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Volodya has known his share of despair. Having drunk heavily since his teens, he says, "I thought I would never be able to stop. I went to clinics where I would dry out, but I could never stay sober. I felt I did not have what it takes to help myself. And then came the group. It was like a miracle...
...name is Mikhail, and I'm an alcoholic," says the next speaker. Sober only a short while, Mikhail, 41, stayed home from work on his last birthday out of fear that his co-workers would insist on celebrating the event with a bottle. "I don't want to talk about my drinking tonight. I just want to thank you for the chance to express myself honestly. Until I came here, I had never done that before...
...since 1941, most of the Mono Basin's mountain water has been disappearing from here and from three other streams down a tube that leads about 225 miles south to Los Angeles. The result, as bumper stickers, outraged postcards to the Governor, and sober scientific studies have all amply declared, is that this country's oldest lake, and one of its most unusual, is being destroyed. Even the Los Angeles department of water and power concedes that the Mono Lake ecosystem could collapse. "We feel comfortable that we have 20 years before it's going to happen," says David Babb...
...Christopher Isherwood and Stephen Spender. A compulsive reader whose idea of a grand evening was to curl up, sober, by a fireplace with a stack of paperbacks. A man who told his famously beautiful wife that the only thing to venerate in life is not love but language. This, surely, is not the Richard Burton of the boozy brawls, the ruined talents, the tossed-away millions on baubles for Elizabeth Taylor, the woman he obsessed over but could not stay married to. Yet both personalities come alive in Melvyn Bragg's meticulous biography. Not many surprises can remain about...
Manley himself cultivated a new image, different from the radical ideologue of the '70s who alarmed the private business sector, alienated Washington and scared away American tourists. His trademark open-necked safari suit has been replaced by a sober, dark blue business suit. Stressing pragmatism over idealism, he has purged the left-wing fringe of the PNP, toned down his relationship with Fidel Castro and reassured jittery business leaders with talk of continued economic stability and the need for private investment. "I think there are two types of people," he said, "those who won't learn and those...