Word: sleeped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subject of Sophie ("not for Sophie Tucker") Frederica ("for my | father Fred") Alohilani ("Hawaiian for 'bright sky,' which is what I always wish for her") von Haselberg: "I adore her. Her face swims before me when she's not there, and I think about her before I go to sleep at night and I dream about her, and I wake up and I can't wait to see her." Miss M never delivered two more fervent monologues...
...teaching Salzman calligraphy was surprised when the American confided that his highest ambitions were to be well liked and to master a skill. "But these goals can be achieved so easily!" the calligrapher replied. "All you have to do is be kind and work hard. But to eat and sleep well, that is a difficult wish, because you cannot control these things yourself...
...drowsing lioness at midday stirs in the grasses under a flat-topped acacia tree. She yawns, and her mouth is an abrupt vision of medieval horrors, of ripping white spikes. And then the mouth closes and she is a smug, serene Victorian dowager. She complacently surveys her young, who sleep near by, and subsides again into her torpor...
...might be that the beasts of primal fantasy live just outside the Masai huts. The Masai reside, so to speak, in the psychic forest, where the wild things are. The beasts there were not invented by an illustrator. They are the originals. The lion roars in the Masai's sleep, and roars when the Masai awakes as well...
...estate architecture. His competition, Philadelphia Inquirer Reporter Loretta Schwartz-Nobel, prefers the interior decoration of the not-so-new journalism. She has had the doubtful advantage of interviewing the imprisoned criminals in the case, and likes to titillate readers with her reactions: "That night, after falling into a troubled sleep, I had my first dream about William Bradfield. He had escaped from prison and had come directly to my house. I was alone. When I opened the door and saw him, I was surprised, but greeted him as a friend. He put his arms around me. 'I've waited...