Word: soberness
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Certainly the plot, a collage of stylized romantic twists, does not cry out for a sober presentation. This time around the star-crossed hopefuls are the ebullient Crocker and sweeter-than-sugar Hope Harcourt. True, Hope has another fiance but the undulating Reno (Heidi Dallin) makes an effort to rearrange the romantic supply and demand. All of this on a luxury ocean liner...
Ehrenreich's argument is not always as jocund as this: there are some very sober statistics about the "feminization of poverty," on the fact that with current trends prevailing, soon the vast majority of the population below the poverty level will be women and children. And her conclusion is a balanced, thorough look at the battlefield of the war of the sexes after the key early stages...
According to The Day After, the world ends with a ghastly nuclear bang. But according to another fictional program broadcast on ABC last week, the world does not end at all, thanks to the sober deliberations of U.S. and Soviet leaders. The Crisis Game, a docudrama produced by ABC News' Nightline and broadcast for four nights running, was an extraordinary TV hybrid. Ten former high Government officials, acting the unscripted parts of a President and his National Security Council, coped with an imaginary U.S.-Soviet crisis set in 1985: Ayatullah Khomeini's death, Iranian civil...
...circumscribes these individuals they aren't terribly smart or talented, and they have problems which seem so overwhelming that they shut them out, and concentrate on the simpler task of just getting by. "The Nature of Almost Everything" begins. "Tell you at thirty-six my goals are to stay sober and pay off my MasterCard bill...
Once a dashiki-clad radical, King, 55, recently adopted a sober tone and somber attire. Nevertheless, he let slip a few atavistic faux pas, such as saying that he preferred Fidel Castro to Ronald Reagan. More damaging in this heavily Catholic city, he implied, without offering evidence, that the late Humberto Cardinal Medeiros was antiSemitic...