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...Emily Dickinson poem—“After great pain a formal feeling comes”—from which the album gets its title (“First--Chill--then Stupor--then the letting go”).Indeed, the standout track, “Cursed Sleep,” might be the most musically complex piece to ever carry Oldham’s name. Violins ascend while cellos spiral downwards, the melody darts from wall to wall in a careful pattern, and Dawn McCarthy’s counterpoint vocals plead out variations of the song?...
According to Martin, the change comes in response to low student demand for the full 7:30 to 10 a.m. breakfasts on Monday vacations. “On a Monday holiday people are going to do exactly what they do on Sunday—sleep late,” Martin said...
...obviously exhausted undergrad behind me boast. “But I could probably go longer now.”All talk of going longer aside, I made it my mission after arriving home in August for a month of vacation to test my endurance and skill not only in sleep, but also in something very closely related: mindless sedentary activity. As surely as there are good and bad ways to arbitrarily drop the names of obscure social theorists in section, or to insert an obviously faulty counterargument into an essay that has no thesis, there is a correct...
...Perez wasn't bashful about her faith either. Every Sunday morning, she'd wake up by playing gospel CDs as she read the Bible. Her roommate Ramirez-Raphael, always trying to catch up on sleep, says Sunday mornings weren't safe until Perez - and the tambourine she always took to play in the Gospel Choir - were at church...
...Tami was a full-figured 40-year-old with blond hair, blue eyes and a firm idea of what I and her other patients should be doing on her watch. Basically, she ran my life. The day after my final surgery, she decreed that I had lost too much sleep socializing, and blocked all visitors and calls to my room. She disciplined my rambunctious son, who ran down the halls demanding to see the gun of everyone in uniform. She helped me decide to euthanize my 15-year-old cat. I had been informed by the vet that...