Word: sleeper
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...diner has several names. These days he goes by Valentino Achak Deng, but in the African refugee camps he grew up in he was called Gone Far, for the hundreds of miles he walked when he fled the violence of Sudan's civil war. One girl nicknamed him Sleeper, for the time he was so exhausted he lay down in the middle of the road and tried to die. The other guy sitting across from me, next to Valentino/Gone Far/Sleeper, has just one name: Dave Eggers...
...great set piece. The series will have to lose the red-sauce clich?s before we start watching it with that kind of devotion, but its good humor and uncompetitive time slot (Saturdays at 8, with no other scripted series scheduled against it, starting next week) could make it a sleeper...
...writes her novels; it's airy and messy - she and her boyfriend moved in last August, but there are still boxes on the floor. So far, you would never know that you were visiting the home of the Faulkner of awkwardness. Sittenfeld's first novel, Prep, was the sleeper hit of 2005. It tells the bittersweet, perfectly observed story of Lee, a quiet Midwestern girl who tries, with decidedly mixed results, to fit in at a breathtakingly preppy Eastern private school. To the surprise of many, not least its publisher and its author, Prep spent nine weeks...
...might resume violence against the U.S., but it never did. Eventually, within the agency, he says, "they just weren't important." That U.S. authorities in 2002 convicted a ring in North Carolina for raising money for Hizballah by smuggling cigarettes doesn't mean the group has dispatched sleeper cells to one day attack the U.S. It means Hizballah has fund raisers here...
...tabletop track and cars John played with as a boy to accumulating a wealth of big-engine lore. On a 10-day rail tour from Los Angeles to Savannah, Ga., which included stops at the Grand Canyon and New Orleans, father and son occupied separate mahogany-and- velvet-trimmed sleeper cars that dated from the 1940s, drank cocktails while listening to live piano music in the sumptuous club car, and dined on five-star meals. The passing sights prompted the elder Geddes to unfold new stories about his past: his days shoveling coal into steam engines, his first trip with...