Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once the convention settled down to business, there were papers and palaver aplenty. One of the more interesting scientific sessions involved sleep and depression. It has long been known that depressed people have trouble staying asleep and tend to wake up early. And lately doctors have learned that they also launch earlier than normal people into the intense period of sleep characterized by rapid eye movements (REM) that occur under closed lids...
...arose to open the blinds. It was blacked out. Happy that the gray had dissipated, he fell asleep in the chair, staring into the dark...
...soon as the two women are asleep, snoring and snorting, a little man toddles up to center stage and sings. "Look at me. Tell me what you see." His two short legs in pink tights stick out of a black velvet tunic. This little man, Don Octave (Matt Olivia), is Donna Ribalda's abductor and brother. For all his pink flakiness, the Spanish gypsy lady adores...
...strong-willed and-armed Helena gets a hapless Demetrius into a half-nelson, and literally dogs his path with a graphic spaniel imitation; Eric Elice and Marianne Owen as Lysander and Hermia separate "as may well be said becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid" before they fall asleep, roll towards each other and exchange places before waking up. Even Linn-Baker's alien Puck adds comic touches, hopping to his sing-song tetrameter or grimacing with impatience at Oberon's bombast...
...small, just Sammy and Rick and Julie and Dina. Deena, said Dina. They went to a drive-in. This is my first time, said Sammy, and he almost dropped the speaker out the window. None of them liked beer so they brought wine. When the movie ended, Rick was asleep in Julie's lap in the back seat. Sammy liked the movie. They went to Julie's house and watched TV but they had finished the wine and the wine had finished Rick and no one wanted to sleep more than Julia so Sammy and Dina carried Rick back...