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...chronic insomniac, just a sometimes insomniac," Joe claims, but if you had witnessed his marathon bout with sleepless nights, you might begin to wonder just where he draws the distinction. It all began with the none-too-uncommon catalyst: second semester freshman year, the last hourlies before exam period, a semester already marred by negligence and procrastination, and four really rough courses. Then to add wood to the fire we've got the snoring roommate on the upper bunk. Sure, amidst anxiety-ridden times and uncontrollable circumstances, we are all afflicted with the inability to fall asleep for awhile...
...ingatherings, New York can be a bleakly lonely place. That isolation-in-multitudes can yield a kind of privacy that allows an individual to choose his own friends and his own life without being monitored. The other side of the privacy is what one hears at 4 a.m. on insomniac radio call-in shows - a loneliness blank and white as an emergency room...
Even though it was after midnight, Rosenthal would be up in a matter of hours. He describes himself as an insomniac, who wakes up around four or five in the morning, regardless of how late he goes to bed. The first thing he does each day is dictate into his "anxiety box," a dictaphone that he hands over to his secretary to transcribe when he reaches his office around 10:15 a.m. There he will stay until around 7:30 p.m. His evenings are often spent out with his wife and friends, he says...
...book of this kind, based primarily on the legal records, can a certiorari an insomniac into deep slumber. David Tinnin, a TIME correspondent who spent five years recycling the TWA-Hughes papers, manages a sensible balance between fact and speculation. Tracking the billionaire from crisis to crisis, hideaway to hideaway, Tinnin presents a convincing picture of a driven man who , with all the money in the world, subsists on cookies and suspicion in a sterilized cell...
Tall (6 ft. 4 in.), tendentious Snyder may not turn out to be every insomniac's cup of warm milk. His perhaps too obvious intent is to be as unsettling as possible. But if the show's guests are as offbeat as promised, Tomorrow may help tomorrow creep in at a slightly peppier pace...