Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made was to choose the performers on the basis of beauty rather than dance ability--Presumably so that the audience would be sufficiently attracted and notice that they breathed. The audience quickly divided into those who were sustained by their amazement that this was "happening"; those who fell asleep; and those who took their eyeballs and left...
...SATURDAY, ten hours before the scheduled start of the concert, anyone that arrived was already late. He or she needing a place to fall asleep, had to make do with a sleeping bag wedged in between thousands of white or yellow Port-O-Sans. Others, undaunted at the prospect of stepping on perhaps fifty heads in the last eight hundred yards to the stage, pressed on toward the dull glowing red stage lights. Land was gold and there was a rush but the only claim you could stake was with your body. As they were stepped on, sleepers yelled...
When Porter told Paul O'Brien, an attorney for C.R.P., that he wanted to talk to the prosecutors, O'Brien replied: "What do you want to do a stupid thing like that for?" He even fell asleep while listening to Porter. Magruder's attorney, said Porter, was equally unsympathetic. "He looked at me rather incredulously and said: 'My God, you are an ant. You are nothing. Do you realize the whole course of history is going to be changed?' I said no, I didn't, but I knew what my worries were...
Though I tried to remain awake after reading such tales, I felt an overpowering anomalous drowsiness quite akin to being sated with green chartreuse. Once asleep, I found myself again in the cemetery. A minatory wind scuttled through the silent tombstones, and Charonian shadows leapt and grimaced with unspeakable frenzy. What was most unusual for a dream was that my nose was active, wrinkling in disgust at the fetor of rotten grass and the ichor of freshly overturned earth. This time the enshrouded figure spoke to me in hollow tones: "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulu R'lyeh...
...raising appearances in his new post as head of Nixon's re-election campaign. Then came the Watergate breakin. Mitchell flew back to Washington, leaving Martha at the Newporter Inn with Security Agent Steve King, who was there supposedly to guard her. Martha waited for King to fall asleep, then placed her famous phone call to U.P.I. Washington Reporter Helen Thomas. She got as far as threatening to leave Mitchell unless he quit the "dirty business" of politics. Then came the sounds of struggle, and the phone went dead. Martha later complained that she had been held down while...