Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hits the button: zap, the fuzz snaps for a second to Waits furiously singing. Hmm. He hits the shaver again--Waits in a Lone Ranger mask. Again--Waits in a satin white jacket. Chuckling, he turns away, pulls a sheet over his boots and jeans, and falls asleep. The TV fritzes again, as it does between scenes through out the movie, and we're with Waits onstage in the white jacket--cuffs too short, wrist loaded with bad watches--telling smarmy, cynical jokes...
Mistakes, it's said, are great teachers. If so, the people who make decisions about Columbia football have been asleep in class...
Dukakis, by bantering with George Bush about this and other soporific issues, is putting his followers asleep. He is leaving them nothing to cheer about, no reason to say, "I am going to get up on election day and vote for Dukakis because of what he will do about this...
...listens to the nightly stream of wisecracks from Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, David Letterman -- and the candidates themselves. Tongue-in-cheek self- deprecation has become a favorite rhetorical tactic. Dukakis initiated it at a Democratic luncheon before his acceptance speech in Atlanta, joking that his wife had fallen asleep while reading the text. Bush's own acceptance speech was peppered with such put-downs as "I'll try to be fair to the other side; I'll try to hold my charisma in check." The aim is both to lower expectations and defuse the critics with humor. But does anybody...
...their cars and zoom to their favorite vacation spots, thousands end up in grisly pile-ups. "Every vacation it happens the same way," says a Paris insurance clerk. "You have types who load their whole family into a small car and try to drive all night, until they fall asleep. You can look at the map and know exactly where they are going to run off the road. It's always the same place...