Word: soberness
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Board Chairman David Owen then gives a sober report on the state of the company. "Some of our equipment did get very old, and we did manage to find $10 million somewhere and put it in. But the well runs dry and we can't do this again." Still, he says, "we can all work together to solve our problems." Later an organist plays The Good Old, Bad Old Days. A vote of thanks to the Owens is proposed by A. Manning of the supply department, and the entire group joins hands to sing Auld Lang Syne...
Surrounded by seedy peep shows, pinball parlors and bingo halls, the aging, garish Blackpool Opera House usually gives billing to vaudeville acts and variety shows. Last week, however, it housed a sober assembly of 1,000 delegates who had come to Blackpool for the annual conference of Britain's Trades Union Congress. Casting their votes on behalf of Britain's 10.3 million trade union members, the delegates overwhelmingly ratified an "incomes policy" that will limit workers to wage increases of no more than $12.60 a week in the next twelve months. The vote was 6.9 million...
...here is Clara Reeve, a sober send-up of the Victorian three-decker, as ingenious as an embezzlement scheme -and incidentally an astringent comment on the predicament of being female. As a little girl, Clara is orphaned, and raised in the forbidding London home of a pious uncle. When she is so light-minded as to laugh aloud at the antics of a bird in the garden, he whips her neck with a watch chain. The child accurately notes that it was indeed the custom to birch girls on the bared portions of their anatomies, but adds that nevertheless...
...recent troubles have also been matters of mistaken identity. In the early '70s the youthful population, still politicized and ever on the alert for potential messiahs, passed the word that Elton was the new "heavy"-sort of a Bob Dylan with sequins. Encouraged by pop's desperately sober critical establishment, they began combing his works for "messages." Worse, they were pretty sure they found some. The King Must Die was obviously about the Memphis assassination, while Honky Chateau was clearly a code word for the White House, Madman Across the Water a musical portrait of Richard Nixon. Elton...
NIGHT MOVES. Gene Hackman again, this time as a former football player turned private eye trying to graft the pieces of his own past onto a missing person's case. Arthur Perm's sometimes sober, sometimes pyrotechnic film is a rather too eager attempt to lift the genre into the realm of metaphysics...