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...short term, Clinton said his plans include "taking a nap," but his long-range agenda holds more formidable tasks...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Leaders Pledge To Help Clinton | 11/5/1992 | See Source »

...have the foresight to concentrate on profession-enhancing pastimes like tennis and golf. While Bill can go for long stretches of time on the road, she says she has to head back frequently to Little Rock to "make a cup of tea, hang out with Chelsea, take an afternoon nap. If I don't get back there, I don't feel grounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Eyes on Hillary | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Awakening, the Real Therapy Must Begin | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Apr. 27, 1992 | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Mar. 9, 1992 | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

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