Word: asleep
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Cocteau's movie is the sort of dream you would have if you fell asleep with your head on a deluxe illustrated edition of Grimm's tales. It is perhaps the most sumptuous and satisfying version of a fairy tale ever put on celluloid, candy for the eyes and a banquet for the aesthete. Above all, it is a swooningly romantic film graced with many visual miracles. And, like love, "Beauty and the Beast" is a dream from which you never want to wake...
...argument. "I don'tagree with him at all; [the stockholdings] arevery interesting," said Gordon. "If you saw thatthey had drug companies, food companies, sometechnology companies, I would be impressed. But ifyou saw that they had a bunch of steel companies,utilities, and oil companies, I would say thesepeople were asleep at the switch...
...They showcased their extremes. On opening night they had the chance to present the most popular Republican in 50 years, creator of a whole class of political converts known as Reagan Democrats. What did they do? They had Ronald Reagan speak near midnight, when most of America was fast asleep. Who got the prime 9 o'clock spot? Pat Buchanan with his promise of "religious war." Reagan ended his speech with his "shining city upon a hill" peroration, a vision of the sunny uplands of America's future. Buchanan ended his speech too with a vision of America...
...Markel's opinion piece of December 9 was very disturbing to me. Aside from the fact that what Markel advocates may further decrease respect of our professors in an atmosphere in which students already rudely talk, laugh, fall asleep or put their feet up on chairs during lecture, the piece contained for me a more personal and much more important issue...
...Ronnie is asleep on his ranch. Madonna is anything but a virgin. Both Larry and Magic have stepped aside for His Airness and a man called The Shaq. And the Harvard men's rugby squad is on the verge of another national championship...