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Waite's asthma also posed problems. With everyone sleeping so close together, his chronic wheezing kept the others awake. So every night Anderson would calm Waite, keeping up a hypnotic patter of "Take it easy, breathe easy, exhale," until Waite fell asleep. Anderson was also more forgiving of Waite's insatiable appetite for information after so many years of isolation. Initially, when they were still separated by a wall, Anderson would tap out dispatches on world events he had culled from radio reports by using one tap for a, two for b, three for c and so on. When...
...computer-firm job in Irvine at 6:45 p.m. for the two-hour trek back to Temecula, he eats his dinner at the wheel, tries to stay awake with a Larry McMurtry book-on-tape and finally, at about 8:45, after his 20-month-old baby is asleep, spends a quarter-hour with his wife and six-year-old son. "I keep telling myself, now, this is only temporary," says Cotton. "But it's been three years. My wife Jill calls herself a single parent." At 9 the lights go out at the Cottons' home, and alarms...
...covers two or three, maybe four times a day and analyze the inside of my eyelids. On weekends, when I am stuck inside reading all day, I don't even get up between naps. I just roll over and pick up my book until I fall asleep again...
...speaking style that got to me. Self-conscious and slow, unsure and uninspired, Rudenstine lost most of his audience's attention. Friends of mine--people who wanted to hear what he had to say--fell asleep, and others began conversations. Two people sitting in front of me started taking pictures of each other. The man sitting to my left read and reread and reread his little one-sheet program...
...that nonstick substance could be wearing thin. "Jimmy Robinson has been asleep at the switch," alleges an executive of a rival credit-card firm. "He's not what you call a hands-on manager. He spends too much time out having fun schmoozing with clients at golf dates." Robinson angrily denies such charges, arguing that outsiders have no idea of his schedule or how he spends his day. "Let them use an 80-hour week as a denominator," Robinson says. He knows it will take that much time, well spent, to retrieve the cachet that American Express has left home...