Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aimless plot amusing. Although Burnett's humor set the pace in the original production, Harriet Mermes's appealingly Klutzy and earthy Winifred does not carry the show. Mermes's best moment occurs in the second act, when she has the stage to herself as she attempts to fall asleep. She yawns and stretches and mugs her way to bed only to be foiled by the pea under her mattresses...
Arguing a case in the presence of Justice Marshall McComb can be an unsettling experience. "He often keeps his eyes closed, and sometimes he walks out in the middle of an argument," says one attorney. "I can't tell when the man is asleep or when he is not," says another. "He doesn't give any indication he's heard what you've said...
...denounced to the state's commission for judicial qualifications by a number of so far unidentified lawyers. The charge: "Willful and persistent failure to perform his duties [and] having a disability that seriously interferes with the performance of his duties." Aside from falling asleep, say his critics, he neither actively participates with his colleagues in their weekly discussion of cases nor writes his share of the court's opinions. The accusations got a surprising public boost when Chief Justice Donald Wright was quoted as saying of McComb, "He's on the bench about five minutes...
...know if you've seen the Globe today, but if you have, you're probably well aware that the football team won again. The score was--um--I think it was 20-14, but I'm not sure because I fell asleep in the second quarter and by the time I woke up I was back in Cambridge already...
Janet's case of insomnia is something new ("possibly physical, possibly emotional," she thinks), but her late night hours have been part of her way of life ever since high school. She used to fall asleep doing homework on the kitchen table at five in the morning. In those days, she didn't begin work until 2 a.m. because there were other important matters to attend to before starting homework. She also had her mother, a chronic insomniac, to keep her company when she worked until sunrise...