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Word: soberly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." But there is more to what may be his best novel than that, as its screen adaptation by writer Robert B. Weide and director Keith Gordon stresses. For Campbell (Nick Nolte, all sweet and sober innocence) is basically an old-fashioned romantic, believing that morality resides solely in being true to one's best self. His refusal to acknowledge the desire of true believers to enlist everyone in their cause--whether malign or benign--brings him first to profound isolation, then to terrible grief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: NICE TO NAZIS? | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

What is wrong with this school? Never has PDA affected such a large sober population. I would expect this type of behavior at a small beach-front California community college, but at the school of John Adams and Al Gore? I attended a public high school in Miami, and I thought that PDA was bad there, but at least it was drug-induced. Regardless of what my friends tell me, I don't think that Chem 10 is as harmful to the psyche as major narcotics. Who walks into a laundry room and thinks, "Wow, great place to make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keep It in the Bedroom | 11/9/1996 | See Source »

...sober sitcom stars becoming an endangered species? Three weeks after Kelsey Grammer entered the Betty Ford Center, Brett Butler, star of Grace Under Fire, has announced that she's addicted to painkillers, and will start treatment as an outpatient. Butler, a recovering alcoholic who said in her recent autobiography that she spent 17 years high, first took the drugs for back pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 21, 1996 | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

Masters, tutors and proctors instead need to convey a new message: It is a virtuous and valiant choice to relax, socialize and party while staying sober, and (for those of us under 21) while following the law. Convincing students to change their attitude toward alcohol will take more thoughtful and more caring leadership from University Hall than that evidenced by a mass-produced letter...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Letter's Not Enough | 10/16/1996 | See Source »

...prudent, given Russia's opposition. But Dole goes even further. He also wants the Baltic states in NATO, a step guaranteed to worsen U.S. relations with Moscow. This is a debate worth having, but don't hold your breath. In the current campaign's game of charge and countercharge, sober discussion has taken a back seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE POLITICAL INTEREST: A DISTINCTION WITHOUT A DIFFERENCE | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

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