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...from Air Force Lieut. Colonel John ("Shorty") Powers, information officer for the U.S.'s astronautical Project Mercury. Awakened for a 3 a.m. comment on Gaga's flight, Powers snapped to a newsman: "If you want anything from us, you jerk, the answer is that we are all asleep...
...scenes in the Doinel home are illuminated through the technique of off-camera dialogue. The parents argue about their son while he lies in bed trying to fall asleep, and through his expression, Antoine confides to the audience feelings he cannot communicate to his parents. Again and again, the viewer gains such confidences of the children and comes to regard the adult world through their eyes...
...such a tide as moving seems asleep...
...really. It seemed to be asleep...
...sleeps in sunlight, surrounded, by many dreams Or dreams of dreams, all good-how can a dream be bad If it keeps one asleep? In the past, Jarrell has often jousted with the U.S. public over its "unusual relationship to the poet. To most of us, verse is so uncongenial, so exhaustingly artificial, that I have often thought that a man could make his fortune by entirely eliminating from our culture verse of any kind. In the end, there would be no more poems, only prose translations." Thus...