Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of all, thank God that Slash and Izzy of Guns N' Roses accepted their American Music Awards plastered--though sober enough to utter vulgarities never before heard on live network TV. We need more people like that in America...
While the passion for independence still burns high, some sober-minded Lithuanians are beginning to wonder if they might have been too hasty. Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene seemed to suggest that the deliberately vague terms of the Kohl-Mitterrand letter might serve as a vehicle for compromise. But the main stumbling block remains: what to do about the March 11 declaration of independence. Lithuanians are interpreting the proposed suspension to refer only to legislation passed after March 11, while Moscow reads it to include suspension of the declaration itself. The no-retreat camp still has the upper hand in Vilnius...
...What, when drunk, one sees in other women," Kenneth Tynan wrote, "one sees in Garbo sober." But it wasn't the beauty alone that intoxicated. Garbo used her severe gorgeousness to suggest that the characters she played were creatures from a nobler, alien world, doomed to exile among the puny men and cramped conventions of earth. She was typecast as the siren who lures men to hell, only to get there first; but her pained dignity gave the lie to cliche. This Garbo lived by a standard too high for men to reach, so they grabbed what they could touch...
...institutional commitment to the Gewandhaus that he was prepared to bring to New York," said orchestra chairman Stephen Stamas. Translation: Masur, whose five-year contract begins with the 1992-93 season -- the Philharmonic's 150th anniversary -- is no glamorous international jet-setter but a solid and sober musician who will give the Philharmonic some badly needed attention and stability...
While brewers and distillers may try to put a sober face on spring break, the rite has become a national symbol of teenage alcohol abuse. Students interviewed in Daytona Beach last week said they planned to drink as much as a case of beer every day. Health experts and worried parents blame overzealous advertisers for such youthful excess. Studies cited by the National Council on Alcoholism show that American children see 100,000 TV commercials for beer before they reach age 18, and usually take their first drink by age twelve...