Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first tulips shyly presented some tightly closed buds, I have felt myself being propelled to the phone in quest of a pronouncement on the day's weather. Actually, it has become kind of a ritual. The alarm goes off. I ecstatically leap--okay, so I blurrily stumble--from my bed and head straight for the phone. After doing my sun dance and propitiating the various rain deities, I slowly dial the prophetic seven numbers: 936-1111. This, of course, is not easy with all ten fingers crossed and a rabbit's foot in my hand, but I manage...
...Hughes] was surrounded only by filth and disorder. Mountains of old newspapers, brittle with age, spread in an ever-widening semicircle on the floor around his bed ... [mixed with] rolls of blueprints, maps, TV Guides, aviation magazines, and various unidentifiable objects. A narrow path had been cleared from his bed to the bathroom, but the tide of trash overran even that, topped off by numberless wads of used Kleenex1
This time the kids were long gone, shoved into Hulk pajamas and tucked into bed...
...number of meanings, all socially redeemed because the line is Shakespeare's ("The bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon," Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 4). But there are no star-crossed lovers, only heavenly bodies tumbling from orbit to bounce in the bed of Eddie Teeters, a producer and sometime actor in pornographic videocassettes piously merchandised as sex-education films...
...with a microwave oven. The thick pile carpet and acoustically padded walls are easily cleaned with the central vacuum- cleaning system. After dinner she may watch a prerecorded episode of Dallas on their VCR and remotecontrolled color TV. When 6-ft. 4-in. Dan stretches out on the double bed for a night's sleep, Robin, who quit her job in a tax collection office to become one of the nation's 48,600 licensed women drivers, takes the wheel. The old stereotype? "We don't associate with that," says Robin. Indeed, they do not even communicate much with other...