Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quincy House's Jordan Fieldman '87 says that he might have missed out on one of his best presents. His roommate told him that a beautiful woman in a short red dress came to his door to give him a backrub. Fieldman was asleep, so his roommate didn't wake him. "I was made about that," he says...
...lamenting the havok sleep wreaked on a delicate head of hair, I discovered that my hairline had moved. I grabbed the sink for support, and ran my hand back from my forehead, flattening the reed-like protrusions that stood in disarray. "We had a little fun while you were asleep," they seemed to say, but I wasn't concerned with them anymore. It was their dead comrades, fallen in the night, which elicited not concern, but utter horror...
Exhausted after a week of midterms, the Princeton football team stumbled onto buses Friday morning in New Jersey and fell asleep for the long ride to Cambridge and a showdown with the Harvard Crimson...
...overlooked. In the early 1980s, his Monday Night Football colleagues made the mistake of being "full of themselves, obviously convinced they could handle the telecasts as well without me." The broadcaster turned viewer chortled as the audience dwindled: "I barely made it through the half-time highlights before falling asleep . . . Hey, I'm only human. I'll not lie about it. Some small part of me, on a highly personal level, was gratified to witness the eroding ratings...
...chronic sleepwalker and an irrepressible imp. When Mama (Mirjana Karanovic) snags a few intimate moments alone with Father, Malik feigns a fit of sleepwalking; Mama resignedly gets out of bed and lullabies the boy to sleep. When she returns to make love to her husband, she finds him asleep. When Malik crawls into bed between his parents, Father embraces him, and Mama is left awake and alone. In the film's loveliest scene, Malik sleepwalks out of his bed, down the stairs, out of the house, down the street, into the home of the little girl he fell in love...