Word: sleepless
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...that’s great. That’s what the movies are for—escapism and entertainment. In the case of romantic comedies, where the outcome is pre-determined by the marquee (Did you really think that Bill Pullman was going to triumph over Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle? Or Cary Grant was going to let Ralph Bellamy win Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday?), the joy is in watching the pursuit...
...turn out that the person was never married, and has not lost anyone. My fellow trainees and I are exhausted, numb, bewildered. We are doing too much. We are not doing enough. I have a speech that I give - It?s okay to feel this way (insert symptom X: Sleepless, anxious, jumpy, won?t ride the subway, wants to move to Canada, convinced there will be a nuclear bomb, guilty about having seen a movie, experiencing ceaseless diarrhea). You are having a normal reaction to an abnormal event...
Coitus lengthily interrupted has long been a romantic-comedy staple, and though Serendipity is a little vague about exactly how many years Jonathan and Kate tote their torches around with them, they are many. And the two make recent ventures into this territory (Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail) look hasty. Your affection for Serendipity may depend on how fascinated you are by a movie that is apparently going after the all-time record for delayed consummation...
...Ellie Weihenmayer's phone rang with updates of her husband's ascent up the white monster called Everest. But the reports did little to ease her nerves. It had been almost two weeks since she last heard his voice, and she'd spent too many sleepless nights chasing away fears of avalanches and infinitely deep crevasses. Then, at 10 p.m. on May 24, the news came: Erik had reached the summit. "My friends and I broke out in celebration," recalls Ellie...
Next on the griddle were Clinton's most dogged lieutenants, the bunker squad--chief of staff John Podesta, counsel Beth Nolan and endlessly faithful consigliere Bruce Lindsey. All of them had the same message: During those wild, sleepless final days, they had protested in force against the notion of pardoning Rich, a fugitive who had illegally bought more than $200 million worth of oil from Iran during the hostage crisis and dodged paying $48 million in one of the biggest tax frauds in history. They were so adamant in their opposition that after a Jan. 16 meeting, they assumed...