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...when I get frustrated with Plato and Professor Mansfield, there's only one thing to do. Get a carton of chocolate milk, slip into my comfy, plaid pajamas with feeties and curl up into the fetal position for a nice, long nap...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, | Title: always the baby | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

...readers fascinated with the South Asian culture, this read is vastly more enjoyable than the standard history text. Chaudhuri demystifies Indian exoticisms, transporting us into his rag-tag world where everything revolves around the late afternoon nap. This novel's evocative imagery is on par with Indian director Saityjit Rays' films in de-cloaking the mysterious world of the subcontinent...

Author: By Contributing Writer, | Title: An India Song Details, then Melts | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...also have a lot of free time on my hands to sit here doing this. But, that's what senior spring is all about and if I'm going down then I'm sure as hell going to drag you lot with me!!!!! So, take a nap, grab some dinner, do whatever you need to do in order to muster the courage and the energy necessary to face this looooong weekend and I look forward to seeing you for the best part of the next four or five days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: As Follows | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...mollify hard-liners in his Cabinet. Simultaneously, Netanyahu's aides tried to "create a little reality," according to a U.S. official, by telling the press that Clinton had consented--which he hadn't. American officials were livid. At 9 a.m., Netanyahu told Clinton he wanted to take a nap. When he awoke three hours later, having reaped the benefits of delay for domestic political consumption, Bibi was ready to sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Wye Plantation | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...although airplanes do not play a central role in the story she has to tell, this is a story that revolves around transportation none the less. Lindberg intersperses lively descriptions of her father's 6'2" frame folding itself into a Volkswagon Beetle for a quick road-side nap with tales of sleek Pullman trains and Ford Ranch Wagons. Lindbergh writes that her father "may have chosen it [the Ford] more in an attempt to camouflage and conceal his family from the world, a vehicle that mixed family travel with protection, part covered wagon and part battleship." In many ways...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In an Aeroplane Over the Sea; In a Volkswagon of Security | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

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