Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...catastrophe worse than the invasions of the Tatars, Napoleon and Hitler combined." The mostly over-50 crowd, packed into the "culture palace" of a factory, constantly interrupts Zyuganov with applause, especially when he takes a gibe at Yeltsin and wonders out loud "why you have to be sober to drive a bus but not to run the country...
...already paid for by individual governments. A high official at U.N. headquarters in New York City is promoting the career of his mistress in a well-paid U.N. job. A key adviser at one of the U.N.'s most controversial agencies is said to be an alcoholic too seldom sober to do much work. And the head of a worldwide agency is reputed to have bought his job by handing out cash--bundles provided by his national government stuffed into a suitcase--to delegates from other countries who agreed to sell their votes...
Perhaps the finest of Copley's family portraits is that of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mifflin, done in 1773. Mifflin was a rich young radical Whig of Quaker origins, who would become George Washington's aide-de-camp and, after the Revolution, Governor of Virginia. The portrait is very sober in color--browns, grays and silver, the only bright note being a red flower pinned to Sarah Mifflin's bodice. What is especially striking about it is the way it preserves Quaker ideas of matrimonial equality. Conventional 18th century portraits have the wife looking adoringly at the husband, who looks...
Science fiction? The apocalyptic vision of a doomsday cult? No, this disastrous scenario came last week from the sober pages of the journal Science. A team of U.S. and Chinese researchers studying the remains of volcanoes that began erupting 250 million years ago reported that according to radioactive dating, the eruptions coincided in geologic time with one of the great unexplained cataclysms in earth's history--a mass extinction at the end of the Permian period that wiped out up to 95% of all ocean-dwelling species and at least 70% of land-dwelling vertebrates...
...perhaps on the bottom half of the G.O.P. ticket, is to encounter a master of animated caution. He is charismatic and focused. His thoughts are ordered and formed in complete sentences--a truly dying art. His entire aspect is commanding and confident. He can appear compassionate and tough, sober and humorous in the same instant. But for all his brilliance as a performer, what Powell says as he begins a nationwide swing ostensibly designed only to pitch his memoirs (for which Random House has reportedly paid him $6 million) is so essentially noncommittal and even vacuous that one reaches back...