Word: soberness
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...Afghanistan marked a sober milestone Friday when the Pentagon reported the first U.S. fatality from hostile fire. According to General Tommy Franks, head of U.S. central command, a member of the Army Special Forces was killed by small arms fire near Khowst, in eastern Afghanistan. The soldier's name has not yet been released. There is no word of other military casualties, but a CIA officer was also wounded in what observers are calling an "ambush." He is expected to survive...
...cosmic moment in Ali, Michael Mann's sober and often stirring film biography, a perfect representation of the instinctive, almost visionary, shrewdness that lay beneath Ali's doggerel-spewing, hyperkinetic image. Bloodied and staggering under the blows of coarsely baying public opinion, he understood before most of us did that it was another kind of imagery--that selected by the media to symbolize the war to American civilians--that would determine the war's outcome and his own fate...
After stumbling out of a Dave & Busters in Ohio Sunday night, a woman tried to convince a cop she was sober enough to drive her car by having sex with him. He turned down her offer and she was arrested when she tried driving again in just...
...Cinematically, director Stanley Kwan is a sober man and his film is imbued with the somber shades of romantic doom. He favors subdued over sensational. Handong and Lan Yu's one-night stand, for example, never gets to a state of hormonal frenzy: Kwan finds his thrill in the tender tremblings of first love. Production designer William Chang creates moody, claustrophobic interiors to convey the relationship's confining, emotionally charged intensity...
...Towers ‘04 is comically unable to realize that females lose their interest in him once they sober up. “I’m not sure what she wants from me,” Towers commented about former hookup partner Terry B. Horner ‘03, “but right now I think I’ve got the upper hand in the relationship. The ball’s in my court.” Horner’s exact words ending the relationship with Towers were, “I just don?...