Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then there's Harry Caray, the voice of the Cubbies. Rumor has it that Caray has gotten so used to announcing afternoon games that he will fall asleep at night games...
...effort to keep juries from falling asleep, lawyers are taking acting lessons to punch up their courtroom performances...
...subtle and banal, for Johns' scrutiny flickers in a perplexing, teasing way between simple pattern recognition and active, probing attention -- so that something quite unremarkable as an image can swell up into a ravishing pictorial event. Sometimes one is excluded; it is like eavesdropping on a man who, half asleep at 4 in the morning, combines and recombines the obsessive contents of his semiconscious mind, muttering and sometimes cursing. But this is the play of a great artist...
Bobbie Battista, an anchorwoman for Cable News Network, is not exactly a household name in the U.S., but she is a celebrity in Poland. French, Italian and Japanese viewers now wake up to the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, while Australians fall asleep to the sound of Jane Pauley and Bryant Gumbel of NBC's Today show -- at midnight. Marshall McLuhan's oft-cited 1967 declaration is finally coming to pass: "We now live in a global village . . . a simultaneous happening...
...Patrick's Day parade in Chicago last month, Kitty asked him to push up her collar against % the wind. Dukakis, who forgot that he was wearing a microphone that allowed the press to hear his comments, whispered to her as he adjusted her coat, "Tonight if I'm asleep, wake me up. Don't let a moment go by." (Kitty cut in with a sharp, "Your microphone's on.") Sometimes, to counteract criticism that he lacks fire, Dukakis will tell audiences, "Kitty thinks I'm passionate...