Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...system. Such surplus power could occur, for example, during periods when winds are strong but household electrical consumption is low. Retired Farmer John F. Wolfe, 62, installed an Enertech 1500 at his oceanfront house in Barnstable, Mass., to harness Cape Cod breezes. When he and his wife are asleep, the windmill keeps churning. Since the local utility company has to buy the power back from him, his overall monthly bill winds up substantially lower...
...city is still asleep, but not for long. Dawn slowly works its way over the horizon, lighting up a two-car wreck...
...starting to get interested in the story. You see, I had recently competed in a local swim meet where I had captured the 100 decibel "Don't splash water on me" competition and placed in the 200 I.M. (Impervious Manner) event in which the competitor must pretend she is asleep despite her mother yelling at her to do 200 things. But I knew Big League swimming was different and although a meet sponsored by Seventeen Magazine conjured visions of young girls trying to get into a pair of designer jeans while doing the backstroke, I realized there was more...
Unlike Cyrus Vance, who was reticent and believed that the less he said on an issue the better, Muskie is talkative to the point of garrulity. Only once did his diplomatic presence fail him totally. During a lengthy speech on Austrian history at the festivities in Vienna, Muskie fell asleep in his very prominent front-row seat. Lord Carrington tried to wake him with a jab of his elbow, but finally gave up. Not until applause rang out did the Secretary of State's head snap up and his body straighten. Muskie did not seem particularly embarrassed...
...Marie-Thérèse reading, sleeping, contemplating her face in a mirror or posing (in the Vollard suite of etchings) for the Mediterranean artist-god, Picasso himself, have an extraordinarily inward quality, vegetative and abandoned. In one sense, the body of Marie-Thérèse, curled up in Nude Asleep in a Landscape, 1934, is seen as a graffitist might see it?a lilac-toned pink blob, twisted and curled to show its openings, nipples and navel, the body recomposed in terms of its sexual signs. It is a hieroglyph for arousal, tumescence in paint. Yet it is something more...