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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cure anyone complaining of sanity. Sure, a barber shop quartet starring disease-carrying vermin rates high on anyone's cuteness scale, but after a funk number, or a gospel number, or the film's opening chorus...one just wants to crawl under a carpet and take a quiet nap...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: MTV Flick Grows Old Quick | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

...pages. Look for a return volley on HotWired this week. In another online mud fight, ESPNET SportsZone unleashed a filtering program designed to keep employees of rival SportsLine USA out of its site (which is open to everyone else on the planet). Maybe it's time for a nap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techwatch: Apr. 15, 1996 | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

...take a one-hour nap before I work," she said. But one must maximize utility in that one hour. "If you jump straight into the dream cycle instead of the other kind of sleep. You'll be all rested...

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: Students Struggle to Stave Off the Z's | 11/30/1995 | See Source »

...order to help the team bond, we all bought some hats for tomorrow's race." Donaldson said. "We took a nap and rested up, so we'll be ready to row tomorrow...

Author: By Nicholas K. Mitrokostas, | Title: Restaurant Sponsors Dinner | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

...barn at his Long Island, New York, home. When he needs a break, he likes to go downstairs to his carpentry shop, where he builds furniture. "I find the action of hand-planing extremely soothing," he says. "It zoids you out." After lunch he takes a long nap, a ritual he began in 1964 following a trip to Italy. "God help anybody who tries to reach me between 2 and 5 in the afternoon," he laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers, Aug. 7, 1995 | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

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