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...painting by Santa Monica Artist Don Bachardy, which they said looked more like spilled soy sauce and ketchup than art. Cracked State Senator Newton Russell: "Do we have any room in the head?" Aesthetically conservative lawmakers balked at putting the work, with its multicolored brush strokes, next to the sober portraits of Brown's 33 predecessors. More pragmatic pols argued that there was simply no more room in the capitol's main corridor, where pictures are traditionally hung. Last week the joint rules committee settled the issue by voting for the muse: the painting was consigned...
During the hearings, much time was devoted to a sober discussion of how the future needed to be managed, but the leitmotiv of Watergate also continued to be heard. Time after time, the events of the past were exhumed. This was perfectly proper, but it is not especially enjoyable to be the cause for the rebirth of the doctrine of guilt by association...
...raise HDL levels may be to have a daily shot or two of alcohol. "The evidence is indirect," reports Epidemiologist Stephen Hulley of the University of California at San Francisco, "but social drinkers have HDL levels as much as 33% higher than those found in teetotalers." On a more sober note, U.C.S.F.'s Dr. Richard Havel warns: "Anyone who recommends raising HDL by drinking is playing with fire." Stress too has a detrimental effect. Studies have shown that the cholesterol levels of medical students peak at exam time, while accountants hit their high point around April...
According to the UCLA Daily Bruin, Thompson appeared unusually sober, although he was presented a bottle of Wild Turkey Whiskey and a bottle of Heineken beer, which he drank quickly...
...been known to belt out a few bars after belting down a few beers at a pub of an evening, but one morning last week Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, 71, welcomed reporters to his daily press conference with a sober but boisterous-he knows no other way-rendition of Ireland Must Be Heaven for My Mother Came from There. The outburst was by way of confirming his aspiration to retire from Congress early next year so that he can be appointed Ambassador to Ireland. That plan, of course, depends on the election of his choice, Walter...