Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sweat with visions of Charlie, the albacore tuna, waving to me with that stupid smile on his face. "Sorry Charlie, we don't need tuna with good taste, just tuna tastes good!" would echo in my head throughout the night. Instead of counting sheep when I couldn't fall asleep, I could only see dolphins, leaping over the waves, in the most politically correct of all symbols that, situated just to the left of Charlie on the Star Kist can, reads "Dolphins Safe: No Harm To Dolphins...
When Davey would spend his evenings falling asleep by the fire with his family, I'd sneak a look at reruns of Three's Company before bed. And could he pray! His prayers were the very things God wanted to hear. I was never that precocious or cute. Damn...
...finding rhymes for "Latvia" and "Cypriot" must surely qualify as an Olympic-style suicide mission). During the ensuing pageantry, classical romanticism was offset with futuristic whimsy. The air of playful modernity, dreamed up by Philippe Decoufle, a 30- year-old high school dropout who talks of getting ideas while asleep, conjured up a Mademoiselle France who was fresh, lighthearted and a little bit spacy...
...does George relent? Because he cares abouthis daughter's happiness. The night after one ofhis typical whining sessions (in which hesuggested holding the wedding at The Steak Pit),he sees Annie asleep on the couch where she hadbeen reading a Modern Bride article on "How toGive a Beautiful Wedding on a Budget." Overcomewith emotion, George begins to read aloud: "Bakeyour own wedding cake...Find a good tailor andcopy a designer dress...Have a friend take thepictures." Horrified, he vows that from thatmoment on, he will "go with the flow." No more ofthis insensitive caterwauling about money. Ofcourse, George...
While Hobson says that the brain functions differently while asleep than while awake, the purpose of sleep for the brain is not rest. Instead, the sleeping brain is probably concerned with protein manufacture, he says...