Word: nap
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Washington Irving's classic folktale, Rip Van Winkle awakes from a 20-year nap to find his youth behind him, the world radically changed and his assumptions hopelessly outmoded. Schizophrenics roused to reality by clozapine endure much the same jolt. Re-entry is not merely a question of catching up with the arrival of rap music and the end of the cold war. It often means coming to terms with lost dreams: the chance to buy a house, build a career or perhaps start a family. On top of this, patients emerging from schizophrenia must acquire the skills needed...
...other people's trouble. In this seventh outing in the series, A VERY VENETIAN MURDER (Simon & Schuster; $19), Frost and his wife Cynthia are taking their ease in Venice when someone murders an American dress designer. The soft-boiled detective is 77, and when danger threatens, he takes a nap. Or nibbles a nine-star lunch with Cynthia. But in the end he nails the villain briskly, well in time for antipasto...
...four gorgeous leads aren't playing characters here; they are making erotic fashion statements. And Phil Joanou's direction is mannered to the max. Or, rather, to the min; the film is two hours of flexing jaws and sultry glances. Before delivering a line of dialogue, everybody takes a nap. All of which is about as arousing as watching a tortoise sun itself...
Fulani, who is chair of the NAP, responds that it is "racism and sexism" to suggest that a Black woman is being controlled by a white...
...Berlet counters that "if [Fulani and the NAP] are really who they say they are they'd get broad political support...instead, they're ostracized by people they purport to represent...