Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Friday night? It is, after all, only a dollar, which makes it, at worst, the cheapest two hours of punishment in Boston, There's Chris Clemenson: talent sometimes peeks its head out of the quicksand. You know you'll laugh and you know you'll sleep, and I advise you to ingest the sort of central nervous depressants that enhance both. Besides, who knows? Maybe John Simon will be there with his Luger...
Later that night, while you lie wrapped in sleeping bags, the state police drive trucks past the campsite again and again. In the backs of the trucks there are dogs, and the dogs howl and howl, and then you know for sure that this really is serious business, and it's hard to sleep...
...they'll keep building Seabrook, at least until next spring when you and your affinity group come back to shut it down again. So you talk with friends, for a while and listen to the spokes meeting, and then, in a gusty 45-degree wind you crawl into your sleeping bag. The Guard are down on the railroad tracks--30 of them 20 yards away--in helmets. They don't want to talk, they just want to stand there, and you sleep. You believe now; but in a way you still don't, and in a lot of ways...
...workers of the opposite sex had made admiring sexual comments; 31% of the men and 33% of the women spoke of being leered at or touched. It had been made abundantly clear to 6% of the men and 11% of the women that they were expected to sleep with their bosses or with influential co-workers in order to keep their jobs. The women who made passes were described by the men as "very attractive" and under 40; men who made advances to women, on the other hand, were generally over 40 and rated as "somewhat unattractive." They also made...
Exhaustion was the hallmark of us all. I had to move from my apartment, ringed by protesters, into the basement of the White House to get some sleep. Much of my own time was spent with unhappy, nearly panicky colleagues, even more with student and colleague demonstrators...