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...flood of calls would follow that announcement, so for the next few minutes, Kathy and I easily avoided the problem of falling asleep while a record played in end-grooves. It's amazing how friendly people can be in the pre-dawn hours. Some even called so frequently that we began to recognize their voices. And the questions they asked...
...Dealing betrays its true Harvard colors. For the film is the kind of self-serving fantasy that one likes to propound over coffee at Hazen's at two in the morning. It's vaguely amusing kid stuff that one can afford only when the rest of the world is asleep and hence need not be faced. It permits Williams and his cohorts to claim their integrity while--rather than selling their souls--they simply let their souls slip away. It breeds a self-satisfaction just shy of true self-contempt. Dealing may be the title, but double-dealing...
...formal discourse in those years, while the rhetoricians themselves are shown in conclave at the bottom of the center panel. "This scene," says Dean René Overstyns, "shows how a session went in those days. One can see that it has become pretty late-the chairman is sound asleep...
...signs of life in Los Angeles for an Indian summer of death which, though matching other years in the strength of its demonic energy and violence, would once and for all implant the Fear in the hearts of millions of Americans. The wind came, people sweated, lay in bed asleep, took Excedrin; the crime rate went up 75 per cent; and Charles Manson...
...rangy young actor in a scene from the Rawhide TV series, even though the actor had no lines in the scene. Enthusiastic over the actor's "stillness," Leone signed him up. On location in Spain, the actor more than lived up to expectations: he kept falling asleep between takes. To some, it may have seemed that he fell asleep during takes. "In Italian movies," he later recalled, "they act a lot. They come from the Hellzapoppin' school of drama. To get my effect I stayed impassive, and I guess they thought I wasn't acting...