Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: Annoyed by David Kendall? Bored by Greg Craig? That's why the White House sent in its cleanup hitter: Charles Ruff. Sober, wheelchair-bound and with a lawyerly manner just nonchalant enough to be credible, Ruff also brought the Judiciary Committee something close to an admission: Perjury in a purely personal matter, Ruff claimed, is not an impeachable offense...
...first glance, the business world of the 20th century would not seem a propitious breeding ground for eccentricity. Businessmen and -women, in the main, pride themselves on probity, predictability. "Sober" and "well-rounded" are considered compliments. Little wonder, then, that a hectare of executives contains fewer kooks than just about any other sampling of humanity. Compared with poets and philosophers, bankers and industrialists have been relatively late adopters of berets, ferrets and home brewing. Yet, even so, the century has hatched its share of "true originals"--some of whom won fame and fortune, others who left only a gaudy afterglow...
...early albums special, Springsteen reminds us where he is going: out of the organs and saxophone comes the ancestor of The Ghost of Tom Joad's most recognizeable whispered refrain, "The highway is alive tonight." And on soulful ballads like "Iceman," there is a hint of the late '90s, sober Springsteen: but "Iceman" is shapeless, hardly the equal of the following track--and the disk's best song--the high-adrenaline "Bring on the Night...
...production played a preassigned role in a drama with a preordained ending. And because Starr--though he tried to portray himself as an earnest public servant guided only by his reverence for the law--couldn't help veering, sometimes coyly, into political finger wagging. In the middle of his sober presentation there was Starr embracing the three Democratic Senators--Pat Moynihan, Bob Kerrey and Joe Lieberman--who had dared go to the floor in August to say that Clinton's private behavior was a public offense...
When he started taking photographs regularly, in 1895, Edgar Degas was 61 and long established as one of the great French painters. But his disposition, sober at best, was decaying into melancholy and the poisons of anti-Semitism. His eyes were failing too. In this show, which travels next to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the best pictures match his dryness to his darkness. Go first to his elastic Nude (Drying Herself), which begins in weird lamplight and ends in shadow. As raw as any of E.J. Bellocq's shots of New Orleans prostitutes, it also...