Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been asleep, but woke up soon after I came in. He smiled his wonderful smile. His eyes were brilliant. "Hi, Tommy," he said. He showed that stoic indifference to death which he had lived by for most of his life. Possibly no other man who ever lived has been so close to death so many times...
...then, asleep in Winthrop House. At two a.m., I had left those best and most creative people, walked guiltily down the stairs between their files of eyes, walked across that dark yard past the reasonable student-government people who had stayed up to argue and to observe, walked more guiltily yet past the friendly University policeman on Quincy Street, walked home in the cold, past the Houses where slept the Great Uncommitted with whom I felt I had less in common than with those romantics, or even those radicals...
Though senior citizens like to recall the good old days when the Academy Awards had dignity and style, that, too, is illusion. "At my first Oscars presentation," recalls Director Joseph Mankiewicz (All About Eve), "Jackie Cooper fell asleep in Marie Dressler's lap. The president of the Academy suggested that everybody toast his wife." In the days before television's time limitations, baroque speeches thanking everyone from the star's mother to the wardrobe mistress were de rigueur. Greer Garson's Mrs. Miniver acknowledgment took 40 minutes...
...best some frustration; at worst are absolute screaming perverts. Lloyds, who is a Kennedy assassination buff, spends an evening in bed with a naked girl using her as a dummy to check the accuracy of the Warren Commission documentation of bullet holes. The scene ends with the girl asleep and Lloyd stouting, "This will crack the case wide open. Kennedy would have had to be standing on his head to be shot like the commission says...
...your emotional gut. It gets to you, and many people would just as soon leave that dimension alone. I think, in a way, a painting is a flat head-on confrontation, the same kind of thing that happens when you go to a concert and either you fall asleep or else you're moved to tears. But then you put on your coat and go home." A painting, unlike a symphony, exists permanently in time, and so perhaps "there is something about a head-on confrontation with a picture that might make people who don't want...