Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film also stops now and then to ogle gratuitous and unfunny sight gags, like Sinatra asleep on his office sofa under a Yiddish newspaper. It remains one of Hollywood's major mysteries why a performer who puts so much style into his records so often sabotages his genuine talents in shoddy and ill-chosen movie vehicles...
...time idealism is not apt to be as dehumanizing as large-scale anything. The point is neatly made when the Director General departs from his prepared address on Staff Day to pay his respects to the need" for holding on to "one's secret identity." The half-asleep come awake. Throats are cleared. The interpreters hesitate. Is this organizational heresy at the highest level? "I don't quite know," says one of the listeners later. "I think I felt heartened to hear something said merely because it was felt. Still, I did find all that stuff about...
...word circulating in Eliot House is that he fell asleep...
...those days there was only one telephone for every ten people, and someone was always using the party line. Besides, she had to face the laundry stacked beside the hand-powered washing machine. That evening, Mr. U.S. got home to find his wife so exhausted that she fell asleep after supper while listening to the tenor of John McCormack scratching out of the Victrola that stood in the light of the flickering gas lamps in the living room...
...meat cleaver of sudden death on Broadway hit Oliver Hailey in 1966 when his play, First One Asleep, Whistle, a lumpy porridge of marriage and adultery, closed on its opening night. Hailey, 35, does not believe he could have survived the blow to his playwriting morale except that he had already completed Who's Happy Now?, over which he had brooded for ten years. His father had been a butcher, who frequently moved the family from one small Texas town to another-"those Panhandle towns where the main street goes on and on and on, and there...