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When William C. Pate '86 awoke from a reading period nap in Langdell Law Library Saturday night, he found an unexpected visitor hovering over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unexpected Visitor Surprises Law School Library Students | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

...words, and in the little intimate area thus formed, carved into the clear air by an implicit crescent, there is a complex fragrance woven of tobacco, powder, lipstick, rinsed hair, and that perhaps imaginary and certainly elusive scent that wool, whether in the lapels of a jacket or the nap of a sweater, seems to yield when the cloudless fall sky like the blue bell of a vacuum lifts toward itself the glad exhalations of all things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perennial Promises Kept | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

...dream while taking a nap the other day. It was about "a big, gigantic bird without feathers, and he came into my cell and got lodged under my cot. And I'm wondering in my dream whether to free this monster or scream for help." The problem struck him funny. He did not recognize the beast. -By Roger Rosenblatt

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portrait of a Prisoner | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...increments of an ounce here, an ounce there." Stallone slimmed mainly on a daily diet of ten raw egg whites and a quarter slice of burnt toast-"so it would contain no water." The daily routine: two miles running, 18 rounds of sparring, two hours of weight lifting, a nap, another run and no dinner. The result: a 47-in. chest, a 29½-in. waist. Stallone managed to achieve an incredibly low body-fat level of 4½%. The average American male 15% to 20%. Says Stallone: "I was weak and dizzy all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Winner and Still Champion | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...next morning I awoke when the cat landed on my chest at six a.m. I let her out, had some Captain Crunch, read a book, watched Dan go off in the Plymouth to play racquetball, and decided it was time for a nap...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Car Wrecking Texas-Style | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

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