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...short time, at least), India and Burma have not yet reached the point of no return and can still "stop short of an energy stroke." But while people in developed countries speed onward blindly addicted to ever-increasing energy consumption, he tells Third World peasants to remain sober and "to abstain from something they have yet to taste." They must stop modelling themselves after the rich nations and abandon their impassible dreams of "overdevelopment...
Gris responded best to objects, whether mask or tool, vessel or furniture, which were artifacts already. He dealt with them as signs rather than as Investigations of reality. Even a painting like Violin and Guitar, whose hot crimsons and acid stripes of green wall paper go far beyond the sober grays and ochres that Gris normally favored, tells us nothing of any significance about the nature of musical instruments; nor can it be said to push the analysis of form as far as Picasso or Braque were taking it at that time. But it is a marvelously controlled arrangement: frozen...
...with the other Tandem shows, the gags on Good Times are often slickly pleasingly crafted. But the occasional references to sociologically sober matters seem to spring less from conscience than from a need to create product identity. That is no less a formula than anyone else's formula-and no less tiresome...
...morning, and I drank all the way through high school. I was in the grip of an insidious, progressive disease." Joe continued to drink through Harvard and the service, but when he went home again his parents sent him to a hospital for "aversion" therapy. "I stayed sober two or three months," he remembers. But for him, the aversion was only temporary...
After attending a Bade County alcohol rehabilitation center for the past three months, Barbara is sober and plans to remain that way. She fears, however, that her drinking may have permanently hurt her children. "They remember my wine-drinking days when I'd throw up in their wastebasket. Now if they see me drinking a Coke, my older girl will come over and taste it and then reassure the younger...