Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Texas West ern College was reminiscing before the finals of the N.C.A.A. championship in which his Miners would face the na tion's top-ranked Kentucky Wildcats. Raskins used to play under Oklahoma State's legendary Hank Iba, and "one night after a game, I fell asleep listening to him talk about stopping the fast break. He hit me with an eraser. If I missed anything then, it'll surely show up here." Haskins, it turned out, did not miss much. While he yelled encouragement from the sidelines, Western's all-Negro five effectively buried Kentucky...
...before he even gets around to going to a motel with a pretty young high school girl, whose name, of course, is Margaret. Still, what with glorying in their wickedness and trying to impress each other, they finally curl up a good arm's length apart and fall asleep...
...midsummer revelry at a vast country estate. Agda is lured into the woods by the son of the hostess (Eva Dahlbeck), herself a bored creature who slips upstairs to keep a rendezvous with an artist and finds him wearing her filmiest negligee. "Marriage," Angela muses forlornly, "is like falling asleep for the rest of your life." Though Director Zetterling often seems overzealous in deploring the dilemma of women, she times her surprises so effectively that moviegoers of all sexes, married or single, will have no trouble staying awake...
...Sports Palace. Domingo takes this lump of reality and lifts it into a world where dream and reason interpenetrate. His narrator-hero is a Spanish immigrant slaughterhouse worker who looks back on "seven years of sleepwalking from urinal to urinal. Seven years of unconsciousness, of being half asleep and idiotic and happy ... in this limbo of progressive idiocy . . . Mary's blue mantle hangs in the window of the antique shop and there is a glass eye that bleeds every Friday when actresses get divorced . . . but the fishermen no longer go to the Seine, because all they find...
What passes for a comic situation is that the partner and his wife are splitting up over a slightly bizarre sex problem. He gargles only on nights when he is in the mood, and once she hears him gargling she loses interest and falls asleep. What's more, as she announces in a distraught moment, "When I'm in the mood, he hasn't gargled...