Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edelman, an accomplished violinist who loves poetry "because it is beautiful and useless," was awakened by his wife Maxine after she heard the news on a radio broadcast. "It was 8 o'clock in the morning, a time when I am usually asleep and in some kind of metaphysical state," he said later in the day. "At first I was silent, then glad-delighted, in fact." Porter, who lives on a farm near Oxford, was skeptical when informed that he had won. "Reporters told me that last year and I hadn't," he explained...
...suggested going out to dinner. Lennon said that he could not move because he felt a religious experience coming on. He promised, however, that while she was supping he would write a song in her honor. "When I got back to the hotel," Brigitte recalled to Evans, "Lennon was asleep on the floor, surrounded by masses of cushions and flowers and empty beer bottles...
...going crazy now that he is off the force, phones his friend Roy, a still-active patrolman. Kilvinsky (George C. Scott) launches into a rambling, nearly pointless anecdote about a batty old lady who kept seeing a man hovering around her front-porch swing. Friend Roy (Stacy Keach), mostly asleep, listens with polite tolerance. Kilvinsky hangs up, pulls the hammer on his Police Special and blows the back of his head...
Keneally's narrative has the short, brutal rhythm of the ax, each stroke glinting with images of hallucinatory brilliance (in a flash of revulsion against his aboriginal brethren, Jimmie imagines "a vineyard of gallows from which hung all the inept, unfortunate race, emphatically asleep"). Occasionally, Keneally overheats his language, invoking the pull of blood and the core of blackness in a way that recalls D.H. Lawrence in a rant. But most of the time the novel's intensity arises naturally from the dualities that throb at its center -black and white, crime and punishment, civilization and savagery...
...Rosenthal, assistant to the president of Supermarkets General, which operates Pathmark, says: "We get all kinds of people late at night or early in the morning-couples unable to shop together during regular hours, or the wife who trusts her husband to baby-sit only when the kids are asleep." The added cost of increased hours has generally been minimal. Explains Ralph Krueger, vice president of Allied Supermarkets, which manages Arlan's: "It doesn't add much to our labor expense because we must have people in to stock at night anyhow. Certain other expenses, like rent, remain...