Word: soberness
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...thank God, since sitcoms are in a years-long creative and ratings slump. Whereas most sitcoms are set in that familiar fake world of couches and canned laughter, Arrested Development looks real and spontaneous. It has no laugh track and is shot documentary style, in handheld digital video, with sober narration by Ron Howard (a partner in Imagine, the show's production company). Viewers often think the show is improvised (like HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm), though it's meticulously scripted...
...important election. But the kind of unimaginative and disrespectful proselytizing of the LaRouche supporters in question or the openly combative College Dems—not to mention Nader’s unimpressive and angry sensitivity to such taunting—is frustrating. The Forum should be a place for sober and respectful civil discourse, something that is hard to find in an era of meaningless sound-bites and swift-boat ads. Everyone who made Nader’s visit such a circus should be ashamed...
...those Oxford Group meetings that Houck befriended Bill Wilson, a.k.a. Bill W., a chronic drinker who would go on to co-found Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) in 1939. Houck joined the Oxford Group and became sober on Dec. 12, one day after Wilson did. Today, at 98, Houck is the only living person to have attended Oxford Group meetings with Wilson, who died...
...doesn’t fight—either drunk or sober,” Levinson said. “He plays by the rules. He was in the Harvard Masters’ Program. He speaks five languages. He is colorblind. He had a Spyderco knife. He always carried his Spyderco knife. It is a utility knife. He’s carried the knife since...
...entrapping the judge trying his obscenity case in San Francisco. Yet this bitter, late-stage Bruce is not all that far from the sensitive comic who, in a 1959 radio interview with Studs Terkel, blames (quite seriously) the declining quality of entertainment on bossy office secretaries. Hot or cool, sober or drug-fueled, Bruce obliterated the line between stand-up and self-revelation...