Word: soberness
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...hors d'oeuvres, then well-dressed dates for everyone--the dynamic is unhealthy. It doesn't matter whether the women enter knowingly; the club's policies create a dangerous dichotomy between the "socially relaxed host," who provides the space, the drinks and the "good time," and an often sober incoming guest...
...media event is being sold to us as the harbinger of a grand new age of elderly achievement and vitality. Still, for all of Glenn's outsize bravery--and narcissism--I suspect that as a subject of public fascination his flight is really just a more patriotic, sober and expensive variation of The Wedding Singer's rapping granny. It's one of the most unshakable rules of comedy: old people acting hip always get a laugh. And, yes, there is comfort in that. As a newly minted middle-aged person, I am no longer culturally relevant, but if I hang...
Marital bliss is interrupted a few years later when Guido, Dora and their son Giosue (Giorgio Cantarini, a wonderfully precocious little actor) are taken to a Nazi concentration camp three months before the end of the war. One would expect the film to sober up at this point, and it does, but it never sacrifices the lyricism and humor which are integral to both the story and to Guido's personality. There are a few truly harrowing scenes, but the violence and politics are largely external to the story--Benigni assumes that we know all that already, and the film...
...what makes life bearable. When people complain that Harvard has no social life and that school spirit is non-existent, they are complaining less about deficiencies of the University itself and more about their own personal levels of inner peace and satisfaction. Spending the best years of your life sober and alone just isn't satisfying...
...moral seriousness or artistic integrity"--New York Daily News). A sad injustice. Years from now, when the brouhaha is past, Corpus Christi may get its due as one of McNally's best, most moving and personal works. His updating of the Christ story is witty but not patronizing, as sober and cleansing as a dip in baptismal water. Joe Mantello's production--a bare stage, apostles clad in identical white shirts and khakis--is a marvel of spare inventiveness. And the hushed audience reaction at the climax testifies to an artistic success that will outlast the howling...