Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guys are really far out has disappeared. Where is the haunting space and humming jive of "2000 Lightyears From Home"? Where is the delirium of "Midnight Rambler"? You just can't dance or roar with the new stuff. Dare one suggest that Mick and Keith are too straight and sober these days to truly do justice to their reputation? The creativity and let's-all-blow-this-joint-to-pieces attitude of the Rolling Stones has, woefully, subsided...
...Tasty is not the best place in the universe. In fact, if you eat there, you might face some serious gastro-intestinal damage. But it is the only place open at two in the morning. And most Harvard students who eat there are not sober at the time...
...moon. Despite scientists' sober warnings that the Great Comet Crash of 1994 might be an uneventful dud, the first chunk plowed into Jupiter's atmosphere with the force of perhaps 10 million hydrogen bombs, lofting a mushroom cloud of hot gas nearly 1,000 miles out into space and leaving a dark scar on the planet's familiar, brightly colored clouds. The assembled astronomers looked at the video screen for a second in silent disbelief -- then began cheering and toasting one another with swigs from champagne bottles. Said Hammel: "This is the kind of stuff I've been dreaming about...
...Sober Poles gave Bill Clinton a subdued greeting on his arrival in Warsaw today, following the president's earlier warm embrace by a celebratory crowd in Latvia. The distinctly different reactions were symptomatic of the moods in the two countries. Poland is undergoing a period of political bickering and some disenchantment following its emergence from communism, while the Baltic Republics are still enjoying a boom following their more recent release from decades of central economic planning. In a tip of his hat to the Baltic success, Clinton announced a U.S. fund that would invest in the small but growing economies...
...horrible chemistry that is life--and you know test tubes better than I do--drowns us that we be more alive, corrodes and corrupts us that we be more alive, breaks and runs us bewildered and sore that we be more alive--and then requires that we be polite, sober, solicitous of others...