Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capitalist society, Xaviera finally builds up a large, bustling establishment and becomes so caught up in running the business that I lost touch with my customers." We see her wandering forlornly through her crowded parlor, where no one has time to talk to her, trailing listlessly upstairs, and falling asleep at her desk, 'too tired to join my own Christmas party." Just in case anyone out in the audience is beginning to get cynical about all this good luck and jollyness, we are shown that Xaviera, who has pulled herself up ny her own garter straps, finds success...
...time her sanity. After World War I she ended up back in Brighton, at the scene of her vision, in a seaside hotel-a short, plump, obscure old lady, puffing along the promenade in all weather. Almost mercifully she died in 1921: a Juliet whose author had fallen asleep and allowed her to live 30 years too long...
...collection is literally dreamed up by a young scholar vacationing in California. One night Anthony Maloney falls asleep in an obscure motel, imagining a priceless array of artifacts. In the morning, a flea market of Victoriana awaits him in a parking lot below. Each objet d'art has been produced by his richly informed subconscious. Naturally there are the classic ottomans and clawfoot sofas, the glut of silver tea sets and bridal breakfast services. But there are also treasures from the velvet underground: choice items of bondage, plush Sadean literature, punishment costumes featuring removable posterior panels...
...brief respite from the energy crisis-a few months of abundant supplies and stable, though high prices. The nation should have used this period to plan strategy for freeing itself of its dangerous dependence on foreign oil. Last week it became painfully clear that the nation has instead fallen asleep in the eye of a storm. On Oct. 1, oil prices will almost certainly take another jolting jump, and the rise will apparently catch the country still without any energy policy worthy of the name. The week's developments...
...eager minor league baseball players-are heading home after losing a night game to the Charleston Pirates. They have not eaten since they left Spartanburg nearly twelve hours ago for the outbound leg of the 420-mile, one-day road trip. Pitcher Jerry Houston and Infielder Raul Nieves are asleep, crammed into the overhead luggage racks. Centerfielder Lonnie Smith has his radio pressed against the window, searching through the static for rock music. Up front, Manager Lee Elia stares at the embers of a cigarette as he flicks it to the floor. It will be 2 a.m. before...