Word: soberness
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...comes across better on the death penalty tonight - he seems serious, sober and not at all bloodthirsty - but by this time most of the reporters aren't listening; they're busy filing, exchanging "what-did-you-thinks" and getting ready to be spun. So busy that they almost miss Bush's big finish, the "If you're going to vote for my opponent, please only vote once" line, which gets the biggest laugh of the night...
...Elvis hair. I wish we had done this before, when we were sober...
America has always carried on a peculiar and somewhat messy love affair with Puritanism. True, the original group of sober, brown-hatted colonists have long since slipped into the darkness of New England cemeteries and Barker Center seminars, their memories preserved only through The Crucible and the grimly authoritarian spire of Mather House. But the Puritan impulse, with its mix of overheated moralism and apocalyptic fervor, is alive and well in American politics. And the most puzzling of these latter-day Puritans emerge every election season, toting charts and graphs and public policy initiatives, all intended to prove what their...
...night in question Allen was "very sober and normal," Sybil Allen said in an interview...
...daughter began to form. One night Karenna came home refusing to admit she was drunk. Gore had her draw a floor plan of the house; the next morning, as she looked at its wild misproportions, Karenna had to face up to the fact that she had not been sober. Still, this was the same 14-year-old who tagged along with him one Saturday afternoon in 1987 when he met with advisers to talk about a presidential run. As she has done repeatedly, Karenna came to define her father in her own way, a way at odds with his establishmentarian...