Word: asleep
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Brutus' young page Lucius is the only character Shakespeare did not find in Plutarch, and he was invented chiefly to illustrate Brutus' considerateness of others. Fifteen-year-old Alan Howard plays him ardently and appealingly. When he falls asleep in the midst of singing and plucking his harp, Brutus affectionately covers him with a gown. When, after the battle at Philippi, Lucius is carried in, lain on the ground and tenderly shrouded in a blanket, one is more moved than by the death of any of the play's principals...
...guides are screwed into place and steel electrodes are jabbed through the guides, as far as two inches into the brain, to make a special kind of electroencephalogram (EEC). The electrodes are left in place for three weeks or so, and repeated EEGs are taken-when the patient is asleep, during a spontaneous seizure, or when the doctors induce a seizure with a drug or electricity. The position of the implanted electrodes is changed if necessary. Then, after the offending part of the brain is accurately located...
...admitted after several moments of groping for what he called a "handle." "I don't know quite what to ask you." Alabama's John Sparkman was even more to the point. "I find myself pretty removed from this discussion," he announced-and soon proved it by falling asleep, his horn-rimmed glasses slipping down his nose...
...suggest," offered Government Counsel A. J. Campbell, "that when a gentleman visits the apartment of a lady of distinction, it is impolite to fall asleep while talking to the lady...
...only five, I so loved the dawn that I would go alone through the mist in search of strawberries, black currants and hairy gooseberries, my blue eyes deepened by the blurred and dewy greenery all around me, my pride swelling at being awake while all the other children were asleep. At that hour I first became aware of my own self and, in an inexpressible state of grace, felt one with the first bird that stirred and the sun so newly born that it still looked not quite round...