Word: siestas
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...Take a siesta during the day," he said. "You might get more mileage out of your sleep...
Everyday, at 2 p.m., the entire city essentially shuts down. People walk home from work to eat the comida (lunch) and take a siesta. Although they return to work at "4 o'clock," this is Mexican time--so you must add at least 30 minutes...
...naturally, have become catnip to recent American scholars striving to excavate social issues from art. It may be, as art historian Elizabeth Johns argues in the catalog, that Mount's best-known picture--Farmers Nooning, 1836, with its strongly, even nobly, realized figure of a black laborer taking his siesta on a pile of hay while a boy in a tam-o'-shanter mischievously tickles his ear with a grass stalk--is an allegory of the delusive promises made by abolitionists to slaves. Or it may not; little is known about Mount's racial views. It is clear, though, that...
...where she seems transfigured by the wormy quivering of light and transparency that prevails in the room, is such an image. Sometimes Bonnard unobtrusively reuses the pose of a classical sculpture in rendering her body: the Medici Venus in Large Yellow Nude, 1931, or the Louvre's Hermaphrodite in Siesta, 1900. Quite often you have to look for her; she is on the margin of the painting or sunk in the background, as though half glimpsed, less immediately present to the eye than the blaze of light on a tablecloth. Intimacy, to Bonnard, also meant distance...
Those who manage to avoid the lure of slumber during classes often consider their classmates' siesta an act of disrespect towards the professor, not to mention a detraction from the academic environment. "I'm aware that many students of varying classes, creeds and first names find it appalling that their brethren and sethren take for granted the collegiate environment to such an extent that the classroom becomes a legitimate context for the curative processes of sub-conscious retreat," comments Noam I. Weinstein '99, "but maybe people get tired...