Word: sleepers
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...proceedings, rather than Hare's imaginative reconstruction of their aftershocks, audiences need only go off-Broadway to Moises Kaufman's Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. Taken entirely from courtroom transcripts and excerpts of Wilde's and Douglas' writings, the play opened 14 months ago as a sleeper hit and has since become a small New York City institution--The Fantasticks for humanities majors...
Woody Allen (Deconstructing Harry) Sleeper, for banana-colored things...
Some commentators have also seen Giuliani-style government as a sign that the age of identity politics is over. Jim Sleeper, for instance, writes in Newsday, that "Giuliani's victory is part of a national political realignment based on an emerging consensus: Liberal Democrats' `Rainbow' racial and sexual identity politics and their obsession with `root cause' explanations for social decay made them thunderously wrong about how to fight crime, stimulate employment, provide welfare, and improve public education...
...sixth race--the "Isadorable Stakes"--I make what seems to me to be a solid investment, one that also happens to promises an exponential return on my principal: I will soon be a gazillionaire if the favorite and a longshot that looks like a sleeper finish first and second, respectively...
Anyone who has ever fallen asleep in an airplane, waking four hours later to find one side of their body completely numb, understands the crucial importance of finding a comfortable position. The same applies to classroom-napping, where some seats can virtually cripple the unschooled sleeper in a matter of minutes...