Word: endless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deal with endless time...
...will. "People like to boast about their ability to catch 40 winks whenever they want," explains Dement, "but what it means is that they're excessively sleepy." On the other hand, when people get enough rest, they remain awake no matter what the provocation: droning teachers, boring books, endless roads, heavy meals, glasses of wine -- even articles about sleep...
...Soviet Union, one never feels that Barley and Katya are deeply menaced by any counterespionage agency. Where are the spooks in leather trench coats? Where are the deep-shadowed alleys just waiting for a chase? Where is the hope for some kind of cinematically pleasing action to interrupt the endless rounds of talk that preoccupy this film...
...wine-country joke has it that the surest way to turn a large fortune into a small one is to buy a vineyard. Perhaps so, but there seems to be an endless supply of multimillionaires whose ideal of a little place in the country is a boutique winery on Napa County's Howell Mountain or Rutherford Bench. Twenty-five years ago, the county had a scant two dozen wineries; today there are more than 200, and about a dozen more are on the drawing boards...
...shout and scream and bluster. But if it did not use force when a vital economic interest was threatened, when it had a clear moral justification and the support of a worldwide coalition, when would it? Letting Iraq's aggression stand is a recipe for a world of endless aggressions, of local and not-so- local wars, some possibly nuclear (India vs. Pakistan for a fourth round? Israel against the Arabs yet again?), and of bloody chaos from which the U.S. could not forever stand aloof...