Word: bed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really think I'll vote for a man who spends 9% hours in bed each day, puts his pajamas on at 6 p.m., lets his wife dictate how his employees will dress and whom to fire and sits around eating jelly beans all evening...
Harris is getting a lot of overnight invitations. This not only gratifies his populist instincts but cuts down on cam paign expenses. Harris will not be able to hide much - whether he eats crack ers in bed or is cranky before his morn ing orange juice. There is something to be said for a little distance...
Irons admits he feels set apart from the others in his class. Part of it is because he lives in Somerville, in a one-room apartment covered with papers. His bed is often left unmade as a "political statement," he says--a reaction to Danbury, where he was called in sporadically because he didn't make his bed with regulation hospital corners...
...About Incest ever made. It captures French bourgeois life with the accuracy of a Palestinian guerrilla looking for hostages. The spinach throwing scene is the best piece of cinematic slapstick since Chaplin. The subtler pieces are all there too: the way the mother, for example, sits down on the bed in the hotel room before agreeing to take the room is a gesture peculiar to the European bourgeoisie. Souffle du Coeur is at heart a comedy of sexual manners, but a tender one. It's never maudlin, but it's not the kind of W est-Side-shrink humor...
...Continental Congress sent John Adams and Benjamin Franklin to Staten Island to negotiate with Lord Howe. On their journey to Philadelphia the two stopped for the night in Brunswick, where at a crowded inn they were forced to share not only a small room but the same bed. Trouble started immediately, as Adams--a self-proclaimed invalid--wanted the window shut and Franklin, claiming it would be healthier, insisted it stay open. Franklin won out, and the two Americans faced the cold together in bed. But years later, in his Autobiography, Adams was to have the final say: "The Doctor...