Word: sleepers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Spelling may be on to something. Network drama has been in a slump of late; the audience for realistic, multilayered fare (I'll Fly Away, Civil Wars) seems to be shrinking. The sleeper hit of the summer is ABC's Jack's Place, set in a fancy big-city restaurant run by Hal Linden. Though not a Spelling production, it adheres to the classic Love Boat formula: two or three guest stars each week glide through cute, twisty tales of love lost and found. (Last week Robert Guillaume played a Broadway producer upset at a bad review written...
...didn't stop with the lack of privacy. By college standards, Hurlbut was sort of a sleeper when it came to parties. There were a few--especially in the six-person suites on the opposite side of the building--but for the most part, things stayed pretty quiet. Lee couldn't have been happier; taking his advice, we agreed to leave the social scene to Pennypacker. it was a PG-rated kind of place...
Since then, various attempts have been made to revive him, but none have really taken hold. The most recent, which may restore Canova to some popularity, is the sleeper of Venice's summer art season: a show of 152 drawings, clay models, plasters and finished marble carvings, borrowed from as far afield as St. Petersburg, handsomely installed in the period rooms of the Museo Correr on Piazza San Marco. It is 20 years since such a group of Canovas has been assembled in public...
Summer films: sequels, stars -- and maybe a sleeper smash; Marlene Dietrich: an appreciation of mystery undimmed...
...fear. Scholars of both races express this apprehension. Says Henry Louis Gates, chairman of Afro-American studies at Harvard: "That ((King)) jury was more afraid of the potential of being mugged by some hypothetical black male than it was of the abuse of the Constitution, of civil rights." Jim Sleeper, author of the book The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York, is fearful that "we're at the dividing line now, where perception becomes reality, where the prophecy becomes self-fulfilling. The fact that the looters are out there doing the rioting only confirms...