Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...customs of Christmas are many, but none are more enduring than the creation of a crèche, centered about the watching Mary and the Christ child asleep in a manger. The magnificent 18th century creche on TIME'S cover this week is one of the famous Neapolitan presepios that delighted King Charles III of Naples and his queen, who sewed garments of silk and velvet for such exquisitely wrought figurines. Using the simplest of materials-vegetable fibers on wire skeletons, wooden hands and feet, earthenware heads-noted Italian sculptors created these figures, which now enact the Christmas story...
...pretty, shallow blonde who consults only her own pleasure and takes it where the grass is greener. She works all day in an office. At night she gives her son the back of her tongue and the heel of the bread; and when she thinks he is asleep, she pesters her husband to "board him out so I can have some peace...
...successively they assailed a nun who had been lured from her convent by the Prince of this World, personified in a fluting cripple. Hollywood's version translates these noble obscurities into terms that the average moviegoer will more restfully recognize-right up to the moment when he falls asleep...
Fifteen minutes later he was asleep; and some how the alarm didn't ring until 10:15 the next morning...
...they all straggled home by about 2 a.m., leaving only the skinny neophyte [myself] with his boss, who was'stiil sitting at the front desk, chin on hands, looking at the drawings. Aalto remained in tha, position without moving until about 6 a.m.; whether he was asleep or not is not known, since the assistant was afraid to go look. Then Aalto stirred and began to draw with soft colored pencils until about 8 a.m. It was a magnificent rendering of the main floor plan and foretold a great building. He is a great architect...