Word: soberness
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...first eminence, Lemmon was usually the nice Joe--"honest, thrifty, methodical, sober, upright and really kinda dull," as he says of himself in Phffft!--getting wooed by prime kooky blonds Judy Holliday and Kim Novak. With Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment and Irma la Douce, he was the shy gent pursuing a knowing woman, the lamb trying to persuade himself to be a wolf. But the Lemmon male was more in control when surrounded by men. From early service comedies like Mister Roberts through all the films in which he played Nellie to Walter Matthau's Butch (The Fortune Cookie...
...gone there on the Green Line train. I’ve been to Fenway with my roommate, I’ve even been there on a date. I’ve seen the Sox win, seen them in a funk. I’ve seen them sober, seen them drunk...
Brenda Conlan and Jeffrey Wolfsberg, recovering alcoholics who founded Lifestyle Risk Reduction, which runs alcohol-education workshops for high schoolers and their parents, have made an informal study of nondrinkers and what keeps them sober. The most consistent nondrinkers, they've found, had unusually sound relationships with their parents, fearing less their discipline than the idea of disappointing them. "They have a relationship that means something to them," Conlan says...
...Dipendra departed so early, 45 minutes after the guests arrived. Rajiv has said Dipendra was "very intoxicated," and that's why he was escorted home and deposited in his bedroom by his brother Rajiv and Paras. But his uncle Ravi disagrees, saying Dipendra got him a drink, seemed sober?and even claimed not to be drinking because there was no Grouse whiskey...
...wish I could have led you to victory." With these sad, sober words outside the party's London headquarters, Conservative leader William Hague dramatically and unexpectedly announced his resignation, leaving a stunned party to find itself a new head. Hours earlier, he had conceded his party's defeat after a night of results he found "deeply disappointing." Labour's second successive landslide victory was a bitter blow to Hague, whose passion for politics began in his early teens and whose dazzling career in the party - he was an M.P. at 27, a cabinet minister at 34 - suggested he might...