Word: insomniac
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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China?s persistent fury over the bombing of their Belgrade embassy is getting easier and easier to understand. At least two of the three "journalists" killed in the predawn bombing, it seems, weren?t insomniac keyboard slaves at all but spies. In addition, the B-2?s bomb just happened to strike the compound?s intelligence-gathering nerve center. "That certainly encourages suspicion on the Chinese side," says TIME State Department correspondent Douglas Waller. "In their eyes, it provides a motive...
Besides, working on the rough edge of nature offers its vagrant epiphanies. "One day," Chen recalls, "it started raining. We got on the bus, and everyone was so tired, they dozed off. Except for me; I'm an insomniac. I was listening to Rachmaninoff and staring out the window. The black clouds were rolling, but at the end of the horizon a strip of blue showed up, then a rainbow. It was very intense--strong and beautiful, like a gate to heaven. I woke everybody up, and we got it in the movie. So seldom do you see beauty face...
...about the reception of his new play, but unfortunately that nuance did not come out in Jones' reading. If the audience came expecting the kind of letters one might mark up for a literature seminar, by Keats or by Rilke, it instead received letters that walked the line between insomniac remembrances and housewifish marginalia...
...contemplate your fork, completely oblivious to anything they've said for the previous 20 minutes. After lunch comes that gap in the day that you have been longing for, those available four hours when you can crawl back into your room and sleep without dreams. The sleep of an insomniac is like the sleep of the dead...
...band's lyrics, however, have changed. While its last album dealt with specific manifestations of alienation--masturbation, pyromania--Insomniac is an indeterminate blur of bleakness. The CD's opening song, Armatage Shanks (the name of a toilet manufacturer), isn't about anything, really, and that may be its point. In the song, lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong wails about confusion: "Stranded/ lost inside myself...Self loathing freak and introverted." On the album's anthemic final number, Armstrong blurts out a series of snotty lyrics that sound like an amalgam of parental advice and fortune-cookie sentiments, concluding with the declaration...