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...July 3, after a picnic, they had neighbors in to dinner. Later Sheppard put a corduroy jacket over his T shirt and fell asleep on a studio couch. The others watched a TV movie, Strange Holiday. After midnight Marilyn began yawning, and the neighbors went home...
Sheppard told a dazed, disconnected story. Asleep on the couch, he had heard or sensed a cry from Marilyn. He ran upstairs to the bedroom and was "clobbered" by a blow on the head from behind. He recovered, chased a man, whom he described as burly and bushy-haired, to the lake. "It was like catching up with a steamroller," he said later. He said that he was knocked out again, revived and staggered indoors to telephone...
...known in Paris literary circles as plain "Willy," met little Gabrielle Colette in Châtillon-Coligny, he was "completely stunned" by the sight of her long, braided hair and "airy grace." At their wedding dinner in 1893, 20-year-old Colette drank too much champagne and fell fast asleep over the table. "As I woke up, I heard my husband's voice...
...Mendes that he would think the matter over. In pajamas that night at the embassy, John Foster Dulles, a man who likes to get his thoughts down in order, jotted down a synopsis of Mendes' frank talk on a yellow scratchpad, studied it, made up his mind, fell asleep...
...acts of heroism." His big, life-size painting of a baby taking its first step beams with self-conscious bravery; his old lady in a wicker chair, a sort of off-key Whistler's mother, is the essence of enduring patience. Even his cadaverous Skid Row figures, asleep amid prowling mongrels and a litter of old newspapers on a sidewalk, exhibit a kind of desperate valor. Says Smith: "They may be resigned, even despairing, but they're still trying to live...