Word: soberness
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John Sayles rightfully received props for his flowing, inter-generational mural of time, Lone Star. With the awkwardly titled Men With Guns (it amazingly both sounds like, and is, a bad translation), however, Sayles has turned a fundamentally disturbing subject matter fit for a sober documentary into the slow-motion romp of a Mr. Magoo social historian. Main character Dr. Humberto Fuentes (Federico Luppi) undergoes an overblown process of discovery in which we are invited to partake: nasty secret things happening and happen after civil strife. Again, no one can fault Sayles for noble motives, and obviously the story itself...
...less wealthy drunk sits down on a bench by the fountain. He yells "Hey!" at each female passerby and then looks away quickly, pretending not to have said anything. He and a guy on the bench with him, a sober 30-year-old with a thick cast on his arm, are both getting quite a kick out of this routine...
...could defy my instincts, learned behavior and common sense and jump off that tower while sober, it would be a supreme act of free will, proving once and for all that I was my own person. If I could do this, I truly could do anything...
...parties because I enjoy the company I keep and the people I meet. What does it say about your attitudes towards the people you're dealing with when you feel you have to artificially shed some inhibitions in order to enjoy their presence more than you could while sober...
...natural to wonder how Ma stacks up next to his most celebrated predecessors, Pablo Casals and Mstislav Rostropovich (both of whose complete sets are currently available on EMI). Casals' classic performances, originally recorded between 1936 and 1939, have a sober grandeur that continues to seize and hold the ear six decades later; the Rostropovich set, recorded in 1991, is a larger-than-life exercise in musical oratory that bears the same relationship to "normal" cello playing that one of Chuck Close's jumbo portraits does to a black-and-white snapshot. Ma's strong, sensitive playing falls somewhere between these...