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Word: sleepfest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second intermission compensates for its lack of participants by integrating pathos into the comedy. Wives berate their spouses for forcing them to sit through another act of the sleepfest going on inside. One man asks those emerging from the balcony to ease his financial guilt and take his six seats in row five. He finds no takers, because everyone knows that snoring within earshot of the performers is rude...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Wind in the Sassafras Trees at the Colonial through Saturday | 9/23/1968 | See Source »

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