Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Summer House isn't really a funny movie, though it is often wry, sometimes wise and generally genial. It is, more than anything, a rather sober meditation on life's tendency to disappoint. "I had hoped to die young," says Lili (Jeanne Moreau), "but now it's too late." Scarves aflutter, jewelry ajangle, her hair aflame with henna, she has just breezed in from Egypt and a past everyone once shared along the Nile. She copes by constant movement, outrageous talk and copious quantities of alcohol and tobacco. Monica (Julie Walters), the divorced mother of the bride, is all domestic...
...adviser-advocates. The program also pays for transportation and other child-care costs until the birth. Chicago's Haymarket House even houses its clients during pregnancy and provides follow-up services for as long as three years. Says director Wanda Thomaston of her clients: "It's often their first sober pregnancy. They've never felt their babies move or experienced labor pains...
...Such sober assessments reinforce the Administration in its strategy of emphasizing the rewards of cooperation -- diplomatic recognition from Washington, economic aid from Japan -- in pressing Pyongyang to resume nuclear inspections. Last Friday the North suggested a diplomatic solution was possible when it offered to allow inspectors wider access. For now, patience is not a bad option. The North Korean regime is isolated, poor and aging. A younger generation shows some signs of wanting to open to the West. Washington can afford to wait to see if Pyongyang's politics break its way. Meanwhile it will not hurt to think about...
...tabloid shows are clearly having a major impact. Parochial crime stories, once confined to the local paper's front page and the 11 o'clock news, now become national obsessions. There's still a major difference between the smash-and-grab tactics of the tabloids and the relatively sober treatment these stories usually get on the networks. But it's no longer possible to deny that the two genres increasingly mirror each other across their divide...
...narrates this film of his life, accompanied by a green fuzzy Martian (Nabil Shaban) who insists on engaging the precocious child in philosophical discussion. Together they travel to England and we watch Ludwig's intellectual development from an imaginative, over-stimulated youth into a sober, work-obsessed pupil of Bertrand Russell (Micheal Gough) and an awkward frequenter of the oh-so-intellectually fashionable Bloomsbury crowd, including the lovely Lady Ottoline Morrell (Tilda Swinton...