Word: sleepless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nearly sleepless on some of his missions and occasionally arriving back in Washington so late that he and the President held their postmortems in Nixon's bedroom, Kissinger conceded that his trips were "hectic...
...After a sleepless nine-hour flight to Liberia, followed by a frenetic twelve-hour day of state activities, she told a news conference: "Being First Lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world." The eager, enthusiastic Liberians helped prove her point. She was greeted by Tolbert in a red-carpet ceremony complete with the ruffles and flourishes and 19-gun salute usually reserved for a head of government. Dressed in red, white and blue, she kept solemn step with the military tattoo as she reviewed the Liberian honor guard. Following the ceremony, she rode at Tolbert's side...
...mood. Richard Sylbert has devised a marvelous high-rise apartment in full view of-what else?-another highrise. The rent is just as steep, but the fixtures are gimcrack, the partitions are parchment, and the terrace looks like a handy suicide perch. The acoustics are superb. Says a sleepless Mel: "Two-thirty in the morning. I can hear the subway in here better than I can hear it in the subway...
...June 21, 1939, Carlotta Monterey O'Neill, third wife of Eugene O'Neill, made the following diary entry: "A hot, sleepless night. Gene talks to me for hours-about a play (in his mind) of his mother, father, his brother and himself." That play was to be Long Day's Journey Into Night, the greatest drama ever written by an American. Apart from its power, honesty, wisdom, passion and compassion, the play is a notable example of how an act of personal exorcism-"to face my dead," as O'Neill put it-can emerge...
There was no elaboration on Sinatra's pedagogical plans. Pressagent Jim Mahoney said: "I don't know of any professorship, but he may be open for one." It is questionable how long a mercurial and sleepless man like Sinatra can be happy as a professional dropout, ruminating and writing. The penultimate paragraph of his statement refers to a "breather" rather than complete retirement. As Bob Regehr, an executive of Sinatra's recording company, said last week: "I have yet to recall an entertainer who stayed in retirement. A great artist is a great artist. How many times...