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...president fell asleep after an hour so he missed seeing Robert de Niro hoist his Oscar for best actor into the air and tell the audience he was especially glad to win the award in the face of "all the bad things in the world." De Niro's Oscar came for an unusually violent role--boxer Jake La Motta in Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull" : but the actor had no idea of the role he would come to have in the previous day's violence. The morning after the Academy Awards, newspapers published the hypothesis of federal investigators that...
Cover point Laurie Gregg said of the defensive lapse. "They had lulled us asleep by that point I felt like a spectator in the first half...
...defensive side Charlotte, "Little Gump" Worsley--who might have fallen asleep had it not been for the chill winds--was challenged just four times for the entire 50 minutes, mishandling a breakaway try by Julic Devlin and one by Bernie Lombardo to give up the two Eagle goals...
After graduation from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied English, Smith became "the worst correspondent the A.P. ever had. Every time someone held up a pie-shaped chart of the state budget I fell asleep." For the next 15 years, he made his living by writing some 30 inconsequential novels and innumerable short stories under a variety of aliases, including Simon Quinn, Jake Logan and Nick Carter. None bore much resemblance to their originator, an intense longdistance runner whose coloring and physiognomy "display a classic mix of genes -my mother is mostly Pueblo Indian and my father is straight...
...will eat, sleep, and--most of all--row. For an entire week, crew will be foremost in your mind. You will be hungrier, sorer, and sleepier, than you've ever been before, but when it's over each day you pat your tight stomach with pride before you fall asleep in the warmth and luxurious softness of your...