Word: sleepings
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...even though no one had gone back to sleep since the early morning downpour, and even though my socks were still soaking wet, and even though all we had left was bagels to get us through another two ferry rides, three train rides, and a bus ride back—I had to admit that this student was right...
...build a hanger at Kuala Lumpur's airport, Fernandes asked the small contractor who built his home to do it instead for $500,000. "There is a lot of excess in the airline industry," he says. "The challenge is to change the mind-set of staff so they eat, sleep and breathe costs...
...with Dr. Charles Hoge. Many experts believe that early identification of symptoms and early intervention could help prevent the kind of massive psychological devastation seen in veterans of the Vietnam War. Some 30% of Vietnam vets eventually suffered PTSD--a grab bag of psychological effects that can include flashbacks, sleep disorders, panic attacks, emotional numbness and violent outbursts. "Here we were trying to be proactive, to better support returning soldiers," says Castro...
...complicated mechanism. Kazan spoke of the contrast, in Brando's work, between "a soft, yearning girlish side to him and a dissatisfaction that is violent and can be dangerous," and observed that it was true of the man himself. "He never knew where the hell he was going to sleep. You didn't know who he was running away from or who he was angry with. You never knew...
...play an alcoholic Vermont waitress, opposite Adrien Brody, in the recently completed independent film The Jacket. "Oooh! I tried a bit of Method for that as well," she says in elaborate self-mockery. "The character was meant to be a bit of an insomniac, so I tried to not sleep, though it didn't really work. I thought about staying awake so much that it sent me to sleep. I don't have it down to a science...