Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...began to drink and take drugs, buying $5 hits of the coolant Freon from a warehouse worker in the morning and then loading up on marijuana at his school during lunchtime. "It was like I was actually killing myself indirectly," says Scott, 18, who with treatment has been sober for three years...
...guest list will not, in all probability, include any homosexual priests, women who fell in love with their rapists or people who have had mind- expanding encounters with UFOs. The show will air mostly in sober-minded Sunday time periods and deal with such unsensational topics as the plight of the poor and the future of the family farm. Yet TV's newest talk show could easily rival Oprah's or Geraldo's on the controversy front, largely because of its host. He's a newcomer to the TV gab circuit, if not to controversial gab on TV: Jesse Jackson...
Readers learn about 'Pi', a game in which students take turns reciting the infinite digits of the irrational number, taking a swig of alcohol each time they are wrong. But since Harvard students are never wrong, according to the book, students playing the game just sit around sober...
...people, recycling that story. No, the shrewdness of these people. For Days of Thunder offers adolescent males the possibility of a high- speed crash almost every minute. It offers their dates the possibility of a shy, winning Tom Cruise smile on an equal-opportunity basis. The boys get some sober, silly chat about the nature of courage. The girls get to see one of their sex (Nicole Kidman) play doctor with Cruise...
Next month she will repeat that performance at New York City's Lincoln Center, a redoubt of sober establishment culture. "My work is not about entertainment," she says. "People usually leave my shows crying." After leaving one of them, her grandmother sent her a note. It was a mixed review that could sum up the dilemma that any unbridled artist poses for the NEA. "She said that I was talented," Finley recalls, "but also a toiletmouth...