Word: insomniac
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...punk, and it may be a particularly devilish form of revenge: Thanks for making me a child of divorce, Dad, now here's punk rock right back at you. This week the Berkeley, California-based punk trio Green Day, whose 1994 album, Dookie, sold 8 million copies, will release Insomniac, a short, sharp album of pop punk songs about turning tricks, picking scabs and hating one's parents, which is expected to be one of the biggest-selling CDs of the year. Two other new punk albums,...And Out Come the Wolves by the Berkeley band Rancid, and Paranoid & Sunburnt...
Amid spasms of public anarchy, Anton Vowl, a Parisian insomniac in psychological discomfort, prowls his lodgings by night. Hypochondria haunts him, plus a doom that has him in thrall: "A unit is lacking. An omission, a blank, a void that nobody but him knows about, thinks about, that, flagrantly, nobody wants to know or think about. A missing link." As "panicky as a pig in an abbatoir," Vowl awaits his karma...
...captured the bronze. The French were despondent when their favorites failed to garner medals, and L'Equipe, the national sports daily, struck back by calling Moe -- who had been expelled from teams as an adolescent for smoking marijuana -- a "little truant" and describing Roffe-Steinrotter as looking like "an insomniac squirrel." But French skier Florence Masnada was more gracious. "The Americans have no complexes," she said admiringly. "They just throw themselves down the slope without asking any questions...
Composed in 1742, supposedly to ease the slumbers of an insomniac Russian , count, the Goldberg Variations are among Bach's most brilliant and daunting keyboard works. "Somehow the piece has been very special all my life," says Feltsman. He speaks passionately about its mathematical and mystical symbolism -- "the meaning of it is infinite, infinite" -- and describes a long "love-hate relationship between Goldberg and myself...
STILLMAN isn't really equipped to deal with problems of this kind, and everyone sees the insomniac as a kind of hysteric or hypochondriac. But insomnia may be a lot more common than we think. I have lots of suspected victims in mind, the most recent being a junior who wants to move into 20 Walker Street, a lonely satellite of Cabot House, because "Lowell House is too noisy." Last year, I lived next to a trumpet player with a penchant for Israeli rock, and I slept fine. Noise is the least of an insomniac's problems. In fact...