Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high office, Clinton is still loath to confess the change. He continues to deny the obvious; his advocacy of a middle-class tax-rate cut was a sop to New Hampshire's strapped primary voters, and his scaling back of that promise today merely confirms a new and more sober political and economic stance for the fall effort...
...LIFE AND LEGEND OF JACKIE GLEASON (Doubleday; $22.50), Time's theater critic, William A. Henry III, sorts amiably through the maze of lies the funnyman wove around his tangled life, including one woozy story about two newlyweds and Gleason, all drunk, and a goat that may have been sober...
...panel discussion was not entirely devoted to sober talk about science and computers, however. There was also sober talk from Rudenstine about the planning process, from Knowles about his budget and from Wilson about plans to get Radcliffe more involved in public policy areas...
What, we ask, could constitute such a psychological state that so impairs the vocal chords as to prevent them from emitting a one syllable word? Inebriation? if a person is drunk, he or she may not say "no" to sex and then regret that decision once sober, one could argue. Is this rape? Whatever happened to maintaining control over bodies? Should drunk drivers be acquitted because they weren't sober at the accident? Can "victims" be so released from any and all responsibility? We think not, and we find it remarkable that so-called proponents of women's rights would...
...Kong after a long, hard night of socializing. "If something traumatic happens to you at a party," he says, "you just bite into a platter of Peking ravs. There can't be more than that, can there? Other food doesn't do that. Even if you're sober, it still works...