Word: soberness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bradley combines star quality from his basketball career with a reputation as a sober policy maven able to score points on complex issues like tax reform and international debt. Like Hart, he could occupy the "big think" niche while appealing to baby boomers. Cuomo, the old baseball player, hits oratorical home runs as he mixes traditional Democratic themes with odes to pragmatic governance. He has a following among Democratic ethnics in the North. Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is an acknowledged master of national security policy. His conservatism could win him bales of white votes...
...playing off public awareness of his decades-old reputation as a brawling, boozing boyo. As he puts it in an interview -- with a trademark rueful smile, offset by trademark wells of sadness in his deep blue eyes -- the message is, "You've seen him drunk, now see him sober...
...three obliterated I.U. students trying to help a scavenger by bellowing up at the people carousing on the hotel balconies to throw down their empties. An answering rain of hard metal cans showered to the pavement, along with an inflatable sex doll on a string. Those who were sober enough to dodge did so--the others took their shots good humoredly. The three boys hugged each other, rocking back and forth and chanting "WE-ARE-RECYCLE-TEAM!" over and over. The old man picked up his cans and disappeared into the crowd, pushing his cart in front...
Again and again, however, the eye goes back to a more sober image, Canyon Country, California, June 1983, one of Sternfeld's infrequent portraits. A man sits before the camera with his arm around a young girl who appears to be his daughter. He looks at the lens. She looks into the distance. Behind them, a suburban street heads out toward a ridge of parched mountains. These are the people in the advance guard of that spreading population, the now-and-future pioneers of perhaps doubtful American prospects. If their implacability looks admirable, Sternfeld has also made...
...warring factions have since settled into an uneasy standoff, as Deng has sought the middle ground. That was clearly evident last week when Premier Zhao Ziyang, a leading Deng disciple, delivered the Congress's opening address. While some reformers "are not sober-minded enough," Zhao declared in his 1-hour, 50-minute speech, their conservative opponents may not be "mentally emancipated enough." In any case, Zhao said, the government has already rooted out the worst excesses of reform: "After several months of work since the end of last year, we have curbed bourgeois liberalization, which was once quite widespread." Having...