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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which the British maintained for a century and which the United States has been keeping for the past 15 years, and turning it over to a joint partnership with the Soviet Union. Because of what? Because in an accidental attack one Iraqi plane hit one American ship that was asleep in a war zone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: If Necessary, a Superpower Acts Alone | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

...together is because we weren't concurrently awake for more than two hours out of any 24. Larry sleeps during the day. I sleep at night. I'd get up in the morning and Larry's light would still be on. He'd be totally asleep, with all his clothes on. I'd come back from class in the afternoon and the room would be dark and Larry would still be asleep. Except this time his books would be on the floor...

Author: By Deborah E. Copaken, | Title: An Animated Lunch With Larry | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

...oppositional juxtaposition of elemental thingnesslessness in the compass of universal nessness. Then, I thought of beating around the burning angst-bush that served as the canine existential dogma that blocked my odyssey. I caught on fire, burning, screaming no one heard me, I thought, except the Hearer, who was asleep for a few hours. I was in pain, but thankfully was saved by a Jorge-Luis Borges short story...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Brain-Addled Air Junkies | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

Nightstage--Asleep At The Wheel, Ben Vaughn Combo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ongoing Exhibits | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...Well, this morning I was asleep on the couch, and my aunt said, 'what are you doing today?' She told me to come down here and try out--it was a toss-up between this and basketball--I guess this won," said Lee St. Louis of Lawrence...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Standing Around On The Job | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

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