Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever wanted to listen to your lectures without getting out of bed? If you were one of about 20 Extension School students who will participate in a new teaching system this spring, you could...
PHILIP BENJAMIN, in bed with his lover Eliot, is afraid to move. Even though the two men's nocturnal tossings and turnings have left Philip pinned beneath Eliot, Philip refuses to try to free himself. Love makes Philip thrash, we are told, and he has already awakened Eliot 10 times during the night. So philip remains still, wondering about the time but unable to turn his head toward the clock, trying to keep his sleeplessness a secret...
...FLIP SIDE of the old saw about politics making strange bed-fellows is that it can also make weird sparring partners. In June Renata Adler published two long articles in successive issues of The New Yorker on the libel trials of General William Westmoreland v. CBS and General Ariel Sharon v. Time Magazine. The pieces were a full-scale assault on the libel laws and a scathing attack on the two media giants for bungling--and then vehemently defending--their stories on the two former commandants...
...politeness. The satire is too meek, there ^ are too many dead spots and blank expressions, and the dialogue often sounds like comedy writers' Muzak. (Grodin: "I'll see us all go to our graves before we lose this ranch!" Garr: "You go to your grave; I'm going to bed.") Burnett seems especially subdued, looking in vain for the precise parodic target that would launch her into an over-the-top lampoon of the kind she mastered on her old variety series...
...around California, trying to get me to come home"). The River, however, begins with much darker currents, a memory of how "me and my Dad used to go at it all the time, over almost anything." He recalls how his father waited until Springsteen was laid up in bed after a motorcycle accident, then brought in someone to cut his son's long hair. Bruce said he would never forget it. His father said he couldn't wait until the Army got him. Later, the singer remembers, he came home after failing his draft physical...